LUSAKA City Council has demolished Munyaule Market, located behind Lusaka City Market, dispersing close to 1,000 marketeers. Lusaka Mayor Chilando Chitangala says the council, in partnership with a Kandora construction, a private stakeholder, will rebuild and improve the market. In an interview, Chitangala, however, refuted social media claims that over 4,000 traders were evicted, saying the market only had about 960 traders. “What is wrong with us building better for them? Out of the 960 traders that are there, only 150 have taken us to court or are trying to fight. So it’s only the 100 who are trying to fight us but the other 800 have accepted and are being distributed in the other markets and some of them...

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