By KASONDE KASONDE –

KABWE Municipal Council has confiscated street vendor’s merchandise that is left along the shop corridors overnight in the town centre.
The council police in conjunction with the state police raided the town centre and confiscated various items that were left in the corridors.
Council public relations manager Anne Mumba said the municipality had been sending out warming’s to the street vendors not to be leaving their goods in the shop corridors unattended.
Ms Mumba said the council carried out the last public notice on Friday to alert the street vendors.
“We have in the past three months been carrying out sensitisations and warnings to the vendors trading in the town centre not to be leaving their merchandise in the town centre as they knock off in the evenings but they have not taken our advice seriously so yesterday we went out to confiscate the goods that where left,” Ms Mumba said.
Ms Mumba said the vendors had been called upon to carry their goods home as they knocked off, to allow the council to sweep and collect garbage to ensure the town was clean.
She added that due to the trading in the corridors and along the roads, the town had remained dirty and the council had launched a make-Kabwe-clean campaign.
Ms Mumba said the council had done its part and that the merchandise that has been confiscated would be used as evidence in court as the vendors appear in court.
Some of the vendors whose goods were confiscated stormed the civic Centre and demanded to be given their goods back and those that went to identify their goods claimed that some of their items were missing.
The vendors who admitted to having received the notices called on the council to be lenient with them and compensate them for their missing items.
Some of the items confiscated from the vendors were bananas, oranges, cigarettes, tomatoes among others.