Chifire asks bar owners to be responsible
Government has asked business houses to have a sense of responsibility and help curb the increasing number of teenagers patronizing bars and taverns in the country.
Youths and child Development Deputy Minister, Angela Cifire says government is concerned that some businessmen and women have continued to abrogate the law concerning the admission of underage children in bars.
Ms. Cifire said this to ZANIS in Lusaka today.
Ms. Cifire’s comment comes following the arrest of about 130 teenagers who were found patronizing bars and taverns in Lusaka and Ndola over the weekend.
She said there was need to find ways and means of protecting young people from patronizing such places.
She called on parents to exercise responsibility over their children by not allowing them to go into bars and taverns at a tender age.
Ms. Cifire said government supports the councils’ move to arrest the culprit as this is one way of addressing the situation.
On Saturday about 100 teenage boys and girls in Ndola and over 33 in Lusaka were arrested by a combine team of state and council police for patronizing bars.
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Bar owners dont consider age the interest is the turn over they make( khani ya ngono
We need to move away from this mentality of cheap talk. This deputy Minister should be telling us about measures put in place to curb the vice – not this sissy talk!!!
Iwe Angela, Bar owners are after profit making.. you think they would care who buys their stuff?? A country like Zambia should collectively formulate a legally binding law to ban under age drinkers.With Tujilijili all over all Tuntembas you expect teenagers to drink responsibily??.
You have turned all playparks into plots and taverns what do you expect you fools?