By ROGERS KALERO TRADERS at Chisokone market in Kitwe have rejected proposals of a lockdown due to corona virus, but promised to adhere to the preventive measures. The marketeers told Kitwe District Commissioner Chileshe Bweupe, that they would put up basins and sanitisers on their shops and stands. Ms Irene Mwila, said the lockdown could negatively affect them and pledged to adhere to the preventive measures as stipulated by the Ministry of Health. “No, closing the market can adversely affect us because this is the source of income. So what we can do is to adhere to what the Ministry of Health has told us regarding the corona virus,” Ms Mwila said. Ms Deophister Mutale echoed the sentiments, stating that their families would starve if there was a lockdown at the sprawling market. She said there was no other source of income for them and that a number of marketeers were widows looking after orphans. […]
Spare us from lockdown, says Chisokone traders
