By OLIVER SAMBOKOGOVERNMENT should seriously consider taking over the running of the Buseko Market Cooperative in Lusaka to stop the never ending squabbles over who should be collecting levies at the timber trading area.The traders who spoke to the Daily Nation, said the con- fusion on who should belongto the cooperative that runs the market is getting out of hand and there is a risk that the situation will degenerate into physical fights between rival groups.Mr Nawa Wasamu, one of the timber traders at Buseko, said the only way the wrangles at the country’s timber market can be cured is for government through the Lusaka City Council to take over the running of the market.He said it’s not fair for a few individuals to continue pock- eting the money collected for offloading, when that money can be collected by the government to improve service delivery to the citizens.“All these confusions we are subjected to, can […]
Takeover buseko market, govt urged
