• It will make it easier to access services from the local authority.
• Cooperative markets to formally write to the local authority to access trading permits.
• Only the local authority is authorized by law to establish and manage markets.

Lusaka City Council (LCC) says it has written to cooperative markets for them to formalize their relationship with the local authority.
Speaking in an interview with Money FM News, Council Town Clerk Alex Mwansa noted that under the markets and bus station Act, it is only the local authority that is authorized by law to establish and manage markets.
Mr. Mwansa added that the Council has advised the cooperative markets to formally write to the local authority for them to access trading permits and conditions of trading from the local authority.
“Chainda market is under a cooperative and as we speak right now, we have written to the cooperative markets to formalize their relationship with the local authority because as you may be aware under the bus stations and markets Act, it is only local authorities who are authorized by law to establish and manage markets.”
“We have advised them to formally write to Lusaka City Council, so that we can allow them to trade and give them conditions under which they can use to trade. That is one issue that has been brought to our attention and we have requested them to formalize our relationship and the issue of the market shelter will be implemented once we are done with the formalities,” Mr. Mwansa said.
He was speaking in response to traders who have been trading in a dilapidated shelter at Lusaka’s Chainda Cooperative market who called on the local authority to assist them in rehabilitating the structure.