Fri, 19 May 2017 10:29:45 +0000
BY CHINTU MALAMBO
RESIDENTS of Lusaka’s PHI (Presidential Housing Initiative) have urged the Lusaka City Council to look into the allocation of street names in the area for easy identification of houses.
A concerned resident Jasmine Mwila said that the community had been lobbying for the allocation of street manes for a number of years now but nothing had been done.
Ms Mwila said that it was important that every locality has a street name so that it was easy to identify where a particular individual lived in case of an emergency.
She said that PHI was a mid-high density area and it was only right that the authority in charge of allocating street names considered PHI as well.
“We have been advocating for street names for so many years now because this settlement has been in existence for quite some time. It is not right that in this day and era a place like PHI should be having challenges like this.
‘‘It’s a challenge to direct people that are not familiar with the area because the streets here do not have names. It would be good if they looked into this and see how best we can be able to move,” she said.
Another concerned resident Katende Sinyinza said that he was saddened by the lack of response from the local authority over the request of the people of PHI.
Mr Sinyinza said that the request was important, going by the goal of development in every locality.
He said that issues of development were supposed to start with small issues like making sure that house numbers and street names were properly allocated.
“If we see that we need to develop this country, I think we should start from the small things like giving every settlement area house numbers and street names so that there is that order in the way people are living.
‘‘That way we can be able to move on to doing even bigger things that are meant to develop this country,” he said.
