No more notice to street vendors, warns Masebo
No more notice to street vendors, warns MaseboBy Patson Chilemba
Saturday October 13, 2007 [04:00]
There will be no more notice to those trading on the streets, local government minister Sylvia Masebo has warned. During the 10th anniversary celebrations for the Lusaka City Market, Masebo said she would ensure that there were no street vendors on the streets of Zambia.
“I’ve already given notice that we shall continue removing street vendors and ensure we remove makeshift shops springing up in the streets.
There will be no more notice to those trading on streets. I’m not one of those populist politicians. I say things as they are,” said Masebo, to a loud applause from scores of marketeers.
Masebo said her job was to ensure that there was no one trading on the streets.
“I’m one of those unlucky ministers whose job is to ensure there is no one selling on the street. That’s my job, there is nothing I can do,” she said.
Masebo said the government could not realise its investment into the construction of markets because people chose to trade on the streets instead of trading in the markets.
She also said government had put in place management boards so that markets could be managed on commercial basis.
“Government wants to take away politics from the markets so that the markets can generate their own funds. It’s important that they are managed in a manner that can make people working in those markets make profits that will sustain their families,” said Masebo.
Meanwhile, Lusaka mayor Stephen Chilatu reiterated the need to eradicate street vending. He said street vending had for a long time robbed the local authority as well as marketeers of the much needed revenue to build more markets.
Labels: MARKETEERS, SYLVIA MASEBO
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