Tue, 29 Aug 2017 09:17:45 +0000
By Oscar Malipenga
A BUS station owned by expelled Patriotic Front (PF) central committee member Mwenya Musenge in Mansa, has been closed by the Mansa Municipal Council.
Mr Musenge, who is former Copperbelt minister and Chimwemwe PF Member of Parliament, last week received a letter from the council informing him to immediately close down his bus station because individuals were not allowed to own bus stations.
“Ififine balenchita akantu, kuti wachita shani? nabanguma amakofi mumbafu?” meaning “I am being victimised, what can I do? They have punched me in my ribs,” complained Mr Musenge.
Mr Musenge said people who were behind the closure of his bus station were claiming that he was a nonentity yet pining down his business.
“They are claiming we are nonentities yet paralysing our businesses. I have been written to by Mansa council that I have to close my bus station.
“I have a bus station of minibuses in Mansa, they move from Kitwe to Mansa,” he said.
Mr Musenge said he was shocked to be told to close down his bus station by the same local authority who gave him permission.
“I told them that you (Mansa Council) are the ones who authorised me start building and finished my bus station and it is the state of the art which cannot be compared to their stations. How can you do this?” Mr Musenge said.
Asked why the council asked him to close his bus station, Mr Musenge said he was informed that nobody was supposed to run a private bus station.
