26/04/2024
STREET VENDORS
It's only a government that doesn't care for the well being of it's citizens that would remove the vendors on the streets of Lusaka without thinking about how they will feed their families. Honorable Gary Nkombo is unfeeling and distant from the suffering of the people in the komboni.
How can a whole minister sacrifice families in the name of cleanliness and pride in the city? His actions are good but I'll timed. Timing is everything and it seems the honorable can't seem to tell what time it is.
Breaks my heart each day to see hard working mother's taking risks on the streets playing mouse and cat chases with the city council police, thieves and traffic. All just to take care of their families.
I would have advocated for the removal of the vendors if the following was in place.
1. The economy is very healthy. Which is not because the president is focused on opening komboni toilets as opposed to getting cheaper fuel from our neighbor, Angola. How can a whole President opt to make small and timey moves like that? The whole President? How? Where are his priorities?
2. Proper Market places. They say that Soweto market and city market can accommodate all the vendors. Ok fine let's say they can of which I doubt. But do the business demographics work in favor of their investment? If trading from there is profitable, why do they leave the market places?
3. Plenty Job Opportunities. Jobs are hard to find. If there were plenty and those people on the streets refuse to take them on, then yeah. But what Honorable Gary Nkombo and his UPND government has done by chasing vendors is fuel crime by the rise in junkies in kombonies and prostitution.
My conclusion is this, I stand with the vendors because all they want is to feed their families. Not all of can steal and pr******te themselves for a few ngwees but believe in putting in that elbow grease to work. Let the vendors be! Fix the economy, lower the price of energy and going business in zed and stop purnishing the same people that voted for you for your inadequacies.
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