Friday, March 29, 2024

Stop Drying ‘Chisense’ and Cassava on the Runway

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Kashikishi residents living near St. Pauls Mission Hospital Air strip have been ordered to stop drying fish and Cassava on the runway. Residents have also been told to stop burying dead relatives at the airstrip with immediate effect.

Nchelenge District Commissioner, Wilson Kasoloko advised people who are using the Runway at the Air Strip for for these activities to stop the practice.

Mr Kasoloko told ZANIS in an interview yesterday, that residents have encroached into the airstrip and created graves that have become an eyesore to the area.

“The Graves are creating a wrong impression on visitors that Land on the Air Strip to think the District has run out of Sites for Grave Yards due to a high death rate,” Mr Kasoloko said.

Mr Kasoloko said the graves at the air strip were giving a negative impression about the district to visitors, who arrive at the airstrip to visit the district for the first time.

“If you can imagine yourself, what impression are you going to have if upon disembarking from the Plane the first thing you see are Hundreds of Graves all around the Air Strip and Starks of Chisense and Cassava on the Runway,” Mr Kasoloko wondered.

He said a meeting of senior government officials and management representatives from Nchelenge District Council and St. Pauls Mission hospital recently met and resolved to order the immediate stop for residents to bury the dead at the Air strip.

He said it was also agreed that all the women drying their Fish and Cassava from the site should also be stopped.

Mr Kasoloko said the meeting, hence, suggested the need to urgently identify an alternative grave site for the local people tentatively at the area between Lupembe Road and Mutono Road.

He said the Civil Aviation regulation do not allow any structure to be amounted near the run way.

Editors note. [Correction Made to First Sentence]

27 COMMENTS

  1. “If you can imagine yourself, what impression are you going to have if upon disembarking from the Plane the first thing you see are Hundreds of Graves all around the Air Strip and Starks of Chisense and Cassava on the Runway,” Mr Kasoloko wondered.

    The impression you get is the same wrong impression that you will get when you read the first sentence of this article.

    LT, thats why bloggers are complaining. Please proof read your articles.

  2. intelligent guys am sick with you controlling grama and spellings at this blog, is english your mother language? as long as you get the meaning i think thats enough, you degrees in english are your dont disturb the flow of issues at this blog. The best place for such comments is school, teach students or pupils. How much do you pay for this blog? how can LTs waste hours to edit a free blog? if you want a well writtern news try post and pay something at the end of the month, then you can open your mouth.

  3. those degrees are yours, remember we had proff mutengo PHD on this blog where are they today? they come in a new name with no titles, you’ll be the next to runaway.

  4. I dont think Cibulazyina Fuswa # 1 and 2 made sense. LT is a very good forum for debating issues, not correcting grammer. I agree with # 3.

  5. #3-4,don’t try to scare us, ka? Your own broken english testifies that you can never be part of LT administration. Give us break and go back to school! And this time, no absconding english classes!

  6. I dont have a degree in english.Am on only a grade 12 and i dont really see the problem with the sentence in question.
    Is it because of Saint Pauls & Saint abreviated as St.

  7. #3 what is wrong with you? # 1 and # 2 are right and we should demand for excellence. Please read the book “Common mistakes in English.” It helped me during my High School days.

  8. #1,2 and 11 Just take it as Zanglish. Forget the imperfections. You are well aware that isth dlrow si ton tcefrep. You get sense.

    Have a good laugh at some of the mistakes but thats it. Even bazungu make typos in their own lingwa but they dont dis one another they way its done here. Learn to chill and go with the message period

  9. #11 you demand excellence then you should be proof reading this blog then. this is a free blog dont just demand things.

  10. LT, LET BLOGGERS MAKE GRAMMATICAL AND SPELLING ERRORS. NOT YOU AS SERVICE PROVIDERS. SOMETIMES I WONDER WHETHER YOUR MANAGEMENT APPRECIATE AND RESPECT YOUR SERVICE USERS-BLOGGERS. THERE ARE SILLY ERRORS IN EVERY ARTICLE. PLEASE, CHANGE/IMPROVE.

  11. Where is DCA to ensure that such malpractices are not taking place? Are they saying that this air strip is not inspected regularly or that no one really keeps an eye on this 24/7 to ensure that nothing illegal takes place on its environs? This proves what I have been saying..this GRZ is only in action when they can smell money. Shame on these hooligans masquarading as a government.

  12. i think the thing that is bothering bloggers is that almost EVERY article has a really stupid error in it. once in a while would be okay and understandable but with LT it is just too frequent it has become embarrassing and worrying. LT mulesebanya

  13. anyway BACK TO THE AIRSTRIP…

    i think the autholities are vely vely collect, people shouldn’t barry their ded by the airstrip.

    and as for the dried fish….well….enough said

  14. Engrish is our second ranguage, dont brame evelyone. Evelybody make plobrem when typing retters. It is just typing ellor. Just lead and appleciate the contlibutions made by diffelent people. At reast I tly.

  15. Zanglish or not proper usage of grammar should be encouraged and upheld. I have previously pointed out misleading or incorrect headlines simply because the grammar was wrong. While Lusaka Times are doing a great job, they should be mindful that their readership may not constitute solely of those familiar with Zanglish. Besides one should always strive to do or be at their best.

  16. Yes! the impression it gives to visitors is that,pipo of Kashikishi are fed up of eating ‘cisense’& cassava & therefo, bury their ded ‘cisense’& cassava near the air strip.It’s ok,the other side is a lake,where else can they bury from?Find them un alternitive place to do that.Do’t just wake up & issue statements,think first why the pipo are doing so.

  17. #1 you are a blockhead. You must study geography!! What part of Zambia are u from? *****!!!

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