A civic leader in Sinazongwe has implored government to sink boreholes in Chiyabi area of the district to avert deaths of people resulting from crocodile attacks on Lake Kariba.
Malima ward councilor, Fisher Zimaana, said in a statement to ZANIS in Choma today that innocent lives were being lost almost on a weekly basis as people try to fetch water from the crocodile-infested lake.
He said the number of incidences involving women being killed by crocodiles while fetching water from the lake has become a source of concern and required urgent government’s attention.
Mr Zimaana said it was disheartening to see children being orphaned after their parents have been caught and killed by the reptiles while drawing water.
He said last week alone, two people were killed in separate incidences in Chiyabi area. He said a woman of Sianyuka village has left behind four children after being mauled and killed by the crocodile as she was drawing water from the lake.
“Sianyuka village has no borehole and yet these are some of the contentious issues we have been advancing on the effects of the displacement of the Gwembe valley,” he said.
Mr Zimaana said another man died while fishing on the lake after being caught by a crocodile.
The councillor said several herds of cattle have similarly been lost through crocodile attacks.
He appealed to the Zambia Wildlife Authority (ZAWA) to listen to the pleas of the valley people over the swelled number of crocodiles.
He said there is need for ZAWA to consider cropping the reptiles to help minimize loss of human life.
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The government spends so much money on various workshops, qualifying and training its workers and yet they cant send them to these areas to find a permanent solution to the problem.
Home sweet home.Life in the viullage will be the same, i live closer to a mighty river and villagers have been caught by crocs and they still go at the river and are still being munched by the same beasts.
Ask the chief what to do. 80% unemployment ,so they are many people doing nothing there.
Well, Nine Chalem I think that I have some safer and low cost techniques and possible solutions inventions to catch crocs. I had written to 100s of Gov and groups and rangers etc.. in Au and other countries but no one responds. I live in Canada so I though of letting any country use them for free for free Eu patents.
Promote a world of inventions contest to catch crocs because foreign aid for river pumps still means a lack of safe access to water. I am just a simple individual living in Canada who may have solutions.
I tried successfully in the past a new type of siphon to pump water uphill against gravity which could help solve this water access crisis and could help other countries in droughts but no one responds.
see Google croc attacks Kenneth Hilliam…