METRO ADVERTISING LTD MANAGING DIRECTOR KIZITO MULAISHO HAS PETITIONED MINISTER OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT MINISTER MR. GIFT SIALUBALO.

 

Metro Advertising Ltd Managing Director Kizito Mulaisho has petitioned Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Minister Mr. Gift Sialubalo and MLGRD Permanent Secretary to intervene and stop Lusaka City Council (LCC) from blocking the firm from advertising on Manda Hill Bridge.

Making reference to a meeting convened by Minister Sialubalo on 25th March 2026, at which the plaintiff and Lusaka City Council were directed to abide by agreed to 20th August 2025 resolutions.

Mulaisho recollected that on 20th August 2025, the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development convened a meeting attended by Council management, and Ministry officials, legal, technical, planning, and engineering representatives, Metro Advertising Ltd and lawyers.

On the matter of the ongoing legal case regarding Metro Advertising Ltd contract at the Manda Hill Bridge, the meeting unanimously resolved to settle it amicably in accordance with the agreement and parties resolved to execute the Consent Order proposed by the Lusaka City Council in its letter dated 9th October 2024, subject only to the removal of the amount of  incorporated by the Town Clerk and Director Legal Services, which meeting unanimously acknowledged to be untrue, as evidenced by the Finance Department Statement of Account of Amount Owing of Zero Kwacha under the Manda Hill Bridge contract.

On the Lusaka City Council's defiance of ministerial directive and unanimous resolutions, Mulaisho regretted that the LCC had defied Sialubalo's directive and guidance from the Permanent Secretary on 25th March 2026 and 3rd February 2026 respectively.

Metro Advertising Ltd cited evidence of defiance as LCC publishing of an advertisement inviting bidders to bid for the contract for the Manda Hill Footbridge placed in the media by on Thursday 1st April 2026.

Further the same advertisement was been done in clear defiance of an existing Court Order re-served on the LCC less than four days before its decision to advertise the bridge.

Interestingly Mulaisho protested that the advertisement placed in the media by LCC allows only two working days for response and requires a non-refundable fee of K30,OOO, raising obvious concerns as to the objectives and pre-determined nature of a clearly unlawful and hurried process to award the tender to someone else.

Mulaisho said according to a national bidding period a minimum response time frame of 14 working days is supposed to be granted.

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