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Cholera will continue to strike if...

- ENOCK MUKOSHA, Lusaka

Dear Editor, AMBIA is our only country and it is not an animal farm either.

But we throw litter everywhere, and when we go to South Africa, we fear doing the same. Why?

I feel it is because our mind-set is polluted. We are not patriotic.

Does it have to take the Government through our armed forces to clean up our streets?

Sadly even after our defence forces cleaned up Lusaka’s Central Business District (CBD) and other towns, dirty is starting to pile up again! What kind of people are we?

So we are only good at insulting each other!

Are street vendors ready to throw out Edgar Lungu from State House simply because he has waged war and conquered Vitro Cholerae bacteria from taking people to their early graves?

If there is a milestone in his presidency journey, it's this very one together with Mansa Central Member of Parliament, Dr Chitalu Chilufya, the health minister

I know politicall­y bankrupted persons like Hakainde Hichilema and GBM will criticize the government for evicting vendors from the streets for their political expediency.

If there was a weak arm in President Sata (MHSRIP), it’s allowing vendors

Zand PF cadres to take up the streets and parking lots!

These vendors are supposed to be in state farms and poultry industries, selling and exporting food on behalf of the republic of Zambia!

Both live and fallen heroes had strong and weak arms-we have to admit that fact and never have to copy and paste deadly mistakes.

Since Lungu chased vendors from streets, has any vendor died of starvation because of not trading from the streets? None.

Have they been chased from homes for failing to pay rentals and land rates? The quick answer is still NO.

Are those vendors not selling? Illiteracy and physical hygiene do not go hand in hand!

It does not require a bachelor's degree to learn to wash hands, cook and eat food while hot and properly boiled to kill germs.

London has 16 million people; Lusaka has fourfold less inhabitant­s, why isn't there a single one dying of bacterial infection in England or indeed in Johannesbu­rg?

As long as we wait for the Government to clean markets, streets and homes for us, cholera will continue to strike and reap so many souls!

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