Lusaka street vendors to be relocated

Lusaka Mayor Wilson Kalumba

Lusaka Mayor Wilson Kalumba has disclosed that Lusaka City Council has found trading spaces for the relocation of street vendors to bring sanity in the Central Business District of Lusaka.

Mr. Kalumba says the area has 4, 000 spaces for market stands and has so far raised 16 thousand kwacha for the construction of the centre roads that are between Cairo and Cha Cha roads.

He says the allocated space will be adequate to accommodate all the street vendors in the city and that the vendors will by April this year relocated.

Speaking during a media briefing today, Mr. Kalumba adds that removing the vendors from busy roads was also for their own safety, adding that the new trading places would have proper sanitation.

And Mr. Kalumba has disclosed that the Lusaka City Council has approved the construction of 2 proper markets in each constituency in Lusaka Province to avoid the tendency of marketeers leaving the markets to trade in the streets.

Meanwhile the Lusaka Mayor has called of residents to consider including the option of cremating their dead bodies in their will.

He notes that the more reason why people are not supporting the cremation of dead bodies is because Zambia was declared as a Christian nation.