Fri, 17 Mar 2017 07:18:48 +0000 By ROGERS KALERO THE good relationship between the Kitwe Mayor Christopher Kang’ombe and the Association of Vendors, Traders and Marketeers of Zambia (AVTMZ) has allegedly angered the leadership of another marketeers association. Association of Vendors and Marketeers (AVEMA) president Able Chikwa is alleged to have been planning to mobilize youths to beat up AVTMZ leaders because of their good relations with Mr Kangómbe. Contacted for a comment, Mr Chikwa said a lot of things against the AVTMZ leadership, but refused to be quoted by the Daily Nation, confirming perceptions that the two organizations were at logger heads. The AVTMZ is an association of street vendors who were relocated from the city corridors to Chisokone market and have been working with the mayor in cleaning the site where the council will construct a slab for traders of second hand clothes. AVTMZ general secretary Kelvin Kahilu told Mr Chikwa at […]
