About 29 village headmen from Chief Sinazongwe area gathered at the office of Sinazongwe District Commissioner (DC) to demand for an explanation over government’s delay in sending relief food to flood victims.
The team leader Molosi Muntanga who is also the traditional representative for Chief Sinazongwe said all the people in Malima area were severely affected of hunger.
Mr. Muntanga said the village headmen decided to have an audience with the DC following ameeting that they held in Malima that the hunger situation has become unbearable in the area.
Representing the DC who is on leave Sinazongwe District Administrative Officer Sokoloku Daka told the headmen that government would send relief food any time this week.
Mr. Daka said a programme has been drawn on how relief food would be distributed to the affected districts in Southern Province.
He said the Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit (DMMU) under the office of the vice president have also sent officers to assess the exact impact of the affected communities in the districts.
Mr. Daka said relief food would only be given to the most vulnerable people in the district.
Sinazongwe vice traditional chief representative Edgar Siabana said the current relief food that Woman for Change distributed in the area did not have any impact because five people out of more than 1000 people in each village had benefited.
“We are all affected and there should be no selection in the distribution of relief food,” Mr. Siabana said.
However, the village headmen have demanded for a meeting with officials from the Rural Electrification Authority to explain why Malima has remained without being connected to power for a long time.
Mr. Mutanga noted that the project for power started a long time during the Gwembe Tonga project that phased out but nothing has been done to address the scenario.
“We want officials from Zambia Electricity Supply Corporation and Rural Electrification Authority to come here and tell us when power would be connected to Schools, Clinics, and to our houses,” Mr Muntanga said.
Sinazongwe District Council Secretary Oliver Muuka told the gathering that there was a plan outlining areas that were required to be electrified but he has no direct answer to tell them on the exact period when work would commerce.
Mr. Muuka said the issue of ZESCO was complex because the district has projects that have been paid for to connect power but the utility company has failed to install it.
He named Kariba South Primary School and Siansowa middle Basic School as projects that ZESCO has failed to electrify even when money was paid to the company.
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KANSHI IS SINAZONGWE THE ONLY PLACE IN ZAMBIA? EVERYTHING THAT ISNT POLITAL HAPPENS IN SINAZONGWE. IMWE START BEING PROPER JOURNALISTS AND FIND NEWS EVERYWHERE!!!! ITS BORING NOW
when did the floods happen and where have they been all this time? Too much water has gone uner the bridge to come aftersix months. It would have carried more weight had it been withing the first six weeks. Ku Changamuka ba daala…
ANGRY,i understand your anger.Its just too much about sinazongwe.We have people crying for help in other places but are not covered.I impolore you guys to discharge your duties diligently.
My question is, if these chaps are starving how did they manage to go ku boma? come on, bashi mwana, just fend for yourselves like every Zambian. Boma ni boma.
While we cannot comprehend your nonsense #4, am sure you dont too. However, your title ,” Dudu cha”,explains what you are.
ya utuma headmen natwena they are like ngwangwazis coming to collect homage from my office on behalf of their chiefs
it means the have someone giving LT news from sinazongwe.why dont you complain about lusaka news.
Tunda futi, Boma ilibe change:) !!!!
Is Southern Province part of zambia? Why do people get so negative when anything is said about it? At one stage that was the bread basket of Zed it is just the climatic condition that has turned the people there into beggers.KK, in addition to yuor AIDS programme, please continue championing ONE ZAMBIA ONE NATION
It is tulu #9.
We are fed up of politics pliz those saying they are fep up with Sinazongwe News should go for other media channels we need rural news regardless of where it comes from in this case it means there is some one right in Sinazongwe giving out the reports. Pleas we encourage you ton continue tellings more news from Zongwe we the people from Zongwe are happy that we are being heard that is why those guys are even able to complain find your own medium iwe kapuba
ALL THOSE COMPLAINING HAVE NEVER BEEN TO THE SOUTH.OUR FRIENDS ARE INDEED SUFFERING.THOSE OF AS WITH LITTLE SHOULD LEARN TO SHARE WITH OUR BRETHRENS.
IN SO DOING WE WILL EARN HEAVEN.
I PRAY ALL OF YOU INSULTING THAT GOD MAY HAVE MERCY ON YOU AND FORVE YOU FOR YOUR UNKIND HEARTS OVER BROTHERS.
GOD BLESS