Thank you Dr Chitalu Chilufya and team
Editor,
Allow me space in your newspaper to thank the hard working team of Dr Chitalu Chilufya and Mr Vincent Mwale, the ministers of Health and Local government respectively.
Gentlemen, your hard work to combat this cholera outbreak is commendable. The battle is not over but we are surely on the right track with you gentlemen in the saddle.
It is clear that the President has got the right people in place to help him do this job.
Cholera is a deadly disease that is spread through water as well as by contact with contaminated surfaces. Through the public awareness programmes, we are learning a lot and even when the battle is over, this should continue. Lusaka today looks different and one can even get lost in the new city devoid of street vendors and garbage.
May I please remind you gentlemen that please do not relent. Let the street vendors be allocated space in designated places and not on the major roads of the CBD. Surely we have enough space in our markets to accommodate the vendors.
We should have a law that makes it illegal to buy from street vendors. If we do not encourage them, they will surely move to the markets. Most markets have remained empty because the people who should be occupying them are all on the street.
But streets have no toilets and therein lies the problem. Let traders be stationed where there are toilets and running water.
We have lost lives because we were careless as a nation. But this cleaning revolution should be permanent.