Wed, 10 Jan 2018 07:38:39 +0000 THE government has a big battle on its hands and all concerted efforts are needed to eliminate the cholera outbreak that is ravaging the capital city, Lusaka and a few other towns in the country. President Edgar Lungu, as commander-in-chief of the armed forces, took a bold decision to enforce closure of Lusaka’s central business district, a decision that effectively meant removing street vendors from their trading places. Mr Lungu has not shied away from enforcing decisions that many pundits would view as political suicide. Street vendors are generally regarded as forming a big part of the Patriotic Front’s voting base in Lusaka. It was therefore no small effort that the President took a decision that would in effect disadvantage his own base. Yet this is a decision that he could not shy away from because of the magnitude of the problem that the country is facing. The outbreak […]
