Concerned Mutendere Township residents have pledged their support of President Rupiah Banda and the MMD party ahead of the 2011 tripartite elections.
The residents told ZANIS in an interview that from the various social economic achievements that President Banda has achieved in less than three years of being in the country’s highest office, they have decided to shift their support to the ruling party and its government.
Speaking on his colleagues’ behalf, Mr Cheleo Mususkwa said the residents have realised that it doesn’t pay to vote for the opposition PF in an elections other than the ruling MMD.
Mr. Mususkwa said as a result of voting for the PF councillor, the area has expirienced a series of under development with the looming water crisis.
He added that people in the area might be frustrated if this crisis persists especially that this is an election year. He advised the MMD to treat the water shortage with the political will it deserves saying he and his other colleagues are confident in the leadership of the President Rupiah Banda to successively address the situation.
” People in Mtendere township no longer supports PF but they have shifted camp to MMD and with this water shortage scenario in the area, people might be frustrated as you know,water is life”, Mr Musukwa said.
And another resident , Everlyn Namatama suggested that government should ensure that the Lusaka Water and Sewerage Company (LWSC ) that the water crisis in Mtendere township is given a serious attention.
Mrs Namatama said children has since stopped going to school due to water blues which has severely hit the township for the past three weeks now.
She said LWSC was not doing enough to address the problem in the township, accusing the water utility company of playing double standards.
Her colleague Cheleo Musukwa expressed his fear of a disease outbreak in the area saying the water drawn from the stream is so contaminated.
Mr. Musukwa told ZANIS that residents in the area are so frustrated to an extent that they are relying on government to intervene before any life is lost.
He complained that there is no single communal tap in Mtendere township like their counterparts in Kaliliki and Kalingalinga townships where he said safe drinking water is not a problem in these areas.
Efforts to get the utility company Public Relations Manager Simon Mwale to comment on the matter proved futile by press time time as his mobile phone was out of coverage area.
ZANIS
Solution – RB give them free geysers
Just switch on the solar panel water gyeser am sure there is water from the gyeser.
Give the residents loans to go on local holidays
The three bloggers above sound like they are teasing RB and MMD but those are seriously what Rupiah and MMD think are solutions to the problems faced by the people in the townships.
Just to remind Rupiah and MMD, LUSAKA IS THE HEADQUARTERS OF DONT KUBEBA.
Many will say we are behind you but IN THE BOOTH NI DONTCH KUBEBA.
Imwe ba Musukwa, just ask for geysers from bwezani, there is lots of hot and safe drinking water there! But please please, DONT KUBEBA!
MMD has substituted water for waterless geysers in mtendere…ask rupiah
Support RB whose government is dysfunctional and cares less for citizens than spending money on pet projects?
Water shortages are order of the day. Even in Nyumba Yanga, Woodlands Extention, Chalala etc water just comes back after 22hrs. Last week LWSC were thanking residents for their patience & understanding over the erratic water supply and that the problem would end by Friday June 3, it is now June 6 and the situation has not changed! So these concerned residents who are pledging support to RB and MMD have their support misdirected. LWSC is a company although co-owned by the City Council which has been suspended since February 2011. The one running the council is an MMD appointed administrator from Ndola.The buck stops at Chituwo and the Ministry, and not the opposition, period!
Eish….free solar geysers for people with no running water, and mobile hospitals where there are no roads !
Geysers please!!!!!!!!!!!! tell ZESCO and RB to include Mtendere compound on geyyser programme.