A combined team of Solwezi district council officials, Zambia police, health inspectors and stakeholders led by district commissioner Albert Chifita on Saturday swung into action closing illegal taverns and some guest houses.
Chifita said the illegal premises have not complied with the provision of public health Act cap , food drug Act cap and local government Act Cap of the laws of Zambia. He said some of the illegal taverns were operating without toilets and were throwing litter anyhow thereby making the places very dirty.
He stated that the operation of the team was done to bring sanity to the district and stop the spread of cholera.
Chifita and the team were saddened to find that two guest houses have been turned into brothels. He said in one guest house, many young ladies were found hibernating in their rooms pretending to have brought some merchandise into the district for sale. Police and council workers however locked up the premises after confiscating double mattresses and forcing all the ladies who were found in these rooms to leave immediately.
He pointed out that keeping prostitutes in rooms permanently for illicit activities was dangerous because some of them even harbor criminals in the same rooms.
