The House of Chiefs has appointed five Southern province chiefs to resolve the succession dispute in Senior chief Mweemba’s chiefdom in which four people have submitted their family trees to Sinazongwe District Council claiming to be the rightful heirs.
Speaking at the meeting in Maamba township, chief Munyumbwe who was the chairperson of the chiefs, said the House of Chiefs has appointed them to resolve the matter after getting the submission from the four contestants.
However, during their submission all the contestants who included Joe Siakalonga, Lason Siasokwe, Edson Shamu, and Frank Katele all claimed to be the true owners of the chiefdom.
The meeting resolved that the five chiefs who included, chief Munyumbwe, Chikanta, Chipepo, Sinadambwe, and Sinazongwe, should analyse the family trees and the submission of each candidate for them to decide who should be the Senior Chief Mweemba.
Chief Chikanta announced that the recommendation would be sent to the House of Chiefs who would in turn send their findings to Sinazongwe District Council to communicate to the candidates.
“We have to analyse all the submissions carefully before recommendations are made. We do not want to do it in a hurry. The report will go to the house of Chiefs and you will be told of the outcome,” Chief Chikanta said.
Earlier, Chief Munyumbwe told the four contestants to choose among themselves and to select one person to be the Senior Chief Mweemba.
The four contestants refused the chiefs idea that they would not manage since everyone wanted to be a chief and decided that the five chiefs should choose the right candidate on their behalf basing on the submission they had made.
In his submission Katela told the gathering that the Chiefdom of Mweemba originated from Simeja and he was the rightful owner to inherit it.
But senior Chief Sinazongwe reminded him that Simeja was sub-chief in the colonial days and at the time of recognising chiefs he was left out adding
Chief Sinazongwe said government also abolished the establishment of new chiefdoms.
Subula Sianyama who is also headman Siameja said the chiefdom of Senior Chief Mweemba should be changed to Siameja and be transferred from Kanchindu to Siameja.
Mr. Siakalonga who is also the brother to the late Senior Chief Mweemba who died last year, said he does not know Katele from Siameja as for the past 608 years they have not been in touch.
“We have just heard them now and we have no graves for their ancestors anywhere, we’re not related and our spirits are different,” Mr Siaklonga said.
Mr Siasokwe who walked in the room with his briefcase, a chart containing his family tree said he was in the blood line.
He said he was surprised that people from Siameja were claiming to be the rightful heir when Headman Siameja installed him to be the next.
But Headmen Siameja refused in the presence of the five chiefs even when Sinazongwe Council Secretary Oliver Muuka saw him when he brought Mr. Siasokwe’s first submission.
Chief Munyumbwe said headmen should not tell lies because it does not show respect.
The Chief said President Levy Mwanawasa wanted the matter to be addressed traditionally and he would not condone people telling lies even when they have changed their mind to support other candidates.
Mr. Shamu who had the longest submission told the meeting that all the candidates claiming to be chiefs were not his relatives despite all of them giving the same family tree.
Sinazongwe District Administrative Officer (DAO) Sokoloku Daka attended the meeting.
These tonga chaps want the throne just for the sake of marrying more wives and copulating freely with all subjects without the hindrance of the courts or “runyoka”, mwatu sabilepemyebo ba suntwe! We should just ask Litunga Imwiko Lewanika to send a chief to rule these quarrelsome subjects of his since they have proven incapable of ruling themselves.
Utter arrogance from you, very tribalist moron you proving to be.Is that how u can demean pipo like that.#1 keep ur lozi stuff out of this , you will not understand anything cousin.Keep quiet, when a snr chief problem arises, does that qualify “failure to rule” .You have just exposed ur shallowness in this.
Miyoba, basopo ka! I am Kaonde not lozi. I actully forgot one thing, its not just copulating with subjects these chief contenders are vying for, they also yearn to mount cows and sire half cow half tonga offsprings like the one a cow gave birth to in Tongaland recently. The entire life of a tonga man and woman evolves around three things, sex, fornication and adultery.
That is why they have lots of coloured people (Bastards) around Pemba, Mukwela, Bowwood, Zimba and Chisekesi area.. In Bemba they say “Bana Mayo BaChitonga Balibuta Kumusanga”….Sibakana elyo pang’no.. Befe ngati baona musungu ninshi bakwata akalilo..
Pele, Mind your language buya … you really can waffle.You dances are very sex soliciting, you train you girls to entertain, so who has a life evolving around sex.And that cow/man stuff is utter rubbish, some pipo do magic tricks on other pipo so as to embarass them.I guess you are learned, not act so shallow.
All Tongas; men,women,old and young love too much sex.No wonder some even go to an extent of shakafuswalizing (slaughtering)their domestic animals.
Stop being promiscous Tongas!!