Market Contractors Told to Speed up Works
By Staff Reporter
LOCAL Government and Housing Minister Vincent Mwale has told the contractors engaged to construct trading markets in Lusaka to speed up the works.
Mwale who visited the four sites yesterday said the contractors should quickly complete the projects so that displaced street vendors can be allocated trading spaces soon.
He visited four markets in Lusaka BH, Tokyo, Agro fuel and Simon Mwewa markets.
“BH market will accommodate about 1,000 traders, street vendor will not conduct their businesses in the streets again, we promised the vendors that government will not let them down because it realizes that trading is their only source of income,” Mwale said.
He further assured the traders that government will keep a close eye on the construction works to ensure that projects are complete as soon as possible.
“Government will next week issue a statutory instrument that will guide on how to keep the streets and markets clean and how people handling food are supposed to behave,” he said
Meanwhile, site engineer at Lusaka BH market Webby Mwabu explained that the contractor delayed to complete the project due to procuring of materials that were required.
