CAR DEALERS MOVED TO TEMPORAL PLACE

By LINDA SOKO TEMBO OVER 500 car dealers who were conducting their business in the Lusaka Central Business District (CBD) have been temporarily moved to an empty space opposite government complex in Lusaka by the Ministry of Local Government and Housing.

In an interview with Daily Nation, Zambia Motor Association (ZMA) vice Chairperson, Owen Matema, expressed gratitude to the government over the gesture saying car dealers would do everything possible to ensure that they kept the place clean.

Last week, Local Government Minister, Vincent Mwale, said the local authority had removed all the car dealers from the CBD because they did not have sanitary facilities just like vendors.

Mr Mwale said a temporal place had been found for the car dealers and that they would be operating in front of Government Complex in Kamwala until a permanent trading place was found for them.

Mr Matema said as car dealers they had organized themselves to ensure that they had access to sanitary facilities.

“We have been given a place by the government and we really appreciate what they have done for us.

“They told us we should maintain cleanliness that’s what we are trying to do, we have been cleaning the place and we want to hire mobile toilets for this temporal place,” he said.

Mr Matema said he was hopeful that government would soon give them a permanent trading place because in an event that there was a function at government complex the dealers would be inconvenienced.