‘WIPE OUT CADRES FROM MARKETS, BUS STATIONS’
By NATION REPORTER CADRES must be completely wiped out from markets and bus stations to promote har- mony, Movement for National Transformation (MNT) founding president, Daniel Shimunza has advised.
In a statement released to the Daily Nation yesterday, Mr Shimunza noted that there was still presence of some cadres in markets and bus stations collecting levies despite government appointing markets and bus stations boards to run the facilities.
“Cadres must not run these vital components of service delivery to the general public, at any given time. Although we know that their presence at bus stops, and markets is a sign of unemployment, this trend must be stopped,” he said.
In March this year, Minister of Local Government Vincent Mwale reiterated government’s resolve to ensuring that Councils take care of running markets and bus stations.
Mr Mwale said to this effect government had strengthened the law that deals with anybody who illegally collects levies from market traders or licensed public transporters other than the Council.
He explained that this had been done through Statutory Instrument number 12 of 2018 adding that in order to augment the enforcement of SI 12 of 2018, government has started appointing markets and bus stations boards to run the facilities as opposed to Councils directly running them, a strategy which had failed in the past.
He added that the past strategy gave unscrupulous people room to start illegally collecting levies from marketeers for their personal enrichment.
Mr. Mwale revealed that as a pilot programme, he has appointed market and bus station boards in Lusaka, Ndola, Kitwe, Livingstone, Chipata, Samfya, Mazabuka and Choma.