Opening of new Soweto cancelled
- Thursday, November 26, 2009, 8:42
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The official opening of new soweto market by president Rupiah Banda which was scheduled for this morning has been canceled.
President Banda will instead be swearing in his new appointees at State House at 9 hours when he was supposed to be at Soweto.
The new soweto market has been shrouded in controversy and allegations of corruption in allocation of stalls.
On several occasions, the process of allocating stalls was suspended as MMD cadres took over the process.
On 10 September this year, scores of street vendors who did not benefit from the allocation of stalls at Lusaka’s New Soweto Market forced their way in the premises. Others allocated themselves selling space in the car park.
The construction of new soweto began under the leadership of late president Levy Mwanawasa with funding from European Union (EU).
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4 me it looks like this man has no serious advisors i feel he cud hav priorities this issue…the pipo he is putting aside r the same guyz paying the salaries 4 the guys he is employing…this is just simple common sense…anyhow iits just a day in between so i wont complain much…lets see how he moves around his puzzle.
This is why markets and stations do not need ministerial or presidential involvement.
I do not know what kind of priority is our beloved President having. How do you explain the missing of the GIDD conference yesterday? Our man goes for the so called launch of planting season in Monze when it is too late. Today, he is swearing some ministers instead of opening the new soweto market.
The ceremony waznt lucrative inuf 4 him, kwenzelibe tuma alowance
SATA’S PF PARTY CONSTITUTION ARTICLE 3 SAYS
“The party shall ensure that all the public institutions, State-owned enterprises and popular mass and similar organizations are led by persons who are members (cadres) of the party and who are uncompromisingly committed to the party”.
Is Sata worth talking about Democracy?
Certainly no. He has no fragrance for democracy. The PF, of which Mr Sata is the unelected self imposed defacto leader since 2001, is the least qualified to comment on democracy and let alone accuse the ruling party of destroying the Judiciary and Parliament.
Leading a party, whose constitution provides for party control of all public institutions, and the Judiciary vindicate the MMD that such PF is not for our country with its undemocratic provisions of the party constitution that if the PF were in government they would run public institutions on partisan lines and completely destroy democracy for PF.
Veteran ; You always show your shallow mindedness and blind loyalty by always coming out from nowhere with personal attacks. Have you read the article, how do you just bring in something different. If I lacked in intellectual capacities i would have written un printable s about you, but i am above that.
coming to the topic at hand, i hope the problems of allocations have been resolved and we don’t need the presido to officially open the market.Ministers can do so. Delegation please??
I really wonder why the president of the republic of zambia should be the one and only one to open the SOWETO market..why cant the minister incharge of local government do the honour’s of that nature?that market am very sure falls under local government and housing,hence the minister incharge shld hav opened those gates mwee..RB naimwe for once stay in the office and do your job by bring sanity to othet affected areas of our economy,ba minister can open the market on your behalf.
gentlemen out of 150 MPs in parliament only 55 have degrees/equivalent. of the 55 only about 30 belong to the MMD.So if the president retires some ministers where will he get the qualified members of parliament to fill the positions. As per our constitution only a member of parliament can be oppointed to the ministirial position? The president does not appoint MPS, we the people are the ones who elect the MPs.By the way who says the rural vote is misleading the country? Among the 55 MPs with degrees/equivalents, 10 are from eastern, 9 from southern, 8 from luapula, 6 from northern, 5 from western ; 5 from Lusaka; 5 from the copperbelt, 4 from northwestern and 3 from Central province.
I don’t believe it should take a whole President of the country to open a simple market for resellers of basic (at times used)items! This is simply the old mentality of pre-independence days when marketieers were always political tools for fighting the colonialist. It seems in Zambia, we stopped evolving a while back.
ba veteran! How is the pf manifesto linked to the market opening? i’m lost
Guys dont waste time attacking eachother on this platform……….any1 who wants to use hiz or her carder mentallity to campaing o sumthing o u nid 2 do is just skip wateva does not make sence 2u…its tru coz whilest doing tht pipo completly go out of topic n dont contribute nothing…this is mo on a debate and it educates n informs all thoze pipo who log on n follow wateva topic is on tha table….so focus guyzzzzzzxzzzzzzz