An environmental watch dog in Kafue says it will not relax but ensure that the Kafue steel plant adheres to its commitment of controlling polluting now that the company has started testing of machinery at the plant.
Kafue District Environment Stakeholders Committee Chairman Wilfred Ngulube said that residents in the district have not ignored the issue of pollution which was raised at the inception of the steel factory construction.
Mr. Ngulube said all what residents want to see is that the management at the company does not take them for granted and start emitting dangerous gases in the atmosphere a situation which will endanger their lives. He said whilst they appreciate the jobs to be created once the plant is in full operation, it was important environment issues raised by locals be looked into by the company.
Mr. Ngulube said Kafue residents have been exposed to pollution for a long time and subjecting them any further will not be taken lightly. He said the committee is looking for ward to seeing pollution monitors being installed at the plant just as management had promised.
Mr. Ngulube disclosed that the committee has however been carrying out sensitization campaigns on pollution. He said it was time Zambians started embracing pollution free environment if they to remain healthier.
Mr. Ngulube also called on the community to work with the committee in order to reduce pollution in the district. He said the community should be alert and report any forms of pollution that they come across in the district.
Mr. Ngulube also called on the Kafue District Commissioner Henry Bowa to assist the committee by providing an office for them. He said pollution is one critical issue in Kafue and it should not be dealt from homes but should have an office where the residents will be freely putting down their complaints.
ENDS/YZ/PK/ZANIS.
Zambians dont care about pollution
We should!!!
haha top 3.
Kabwe is the most polluted City in the world Kafue should have learn t from Kabwe. This factory is too close to the houses in the City it needs to be relocated far away from the communities of Kafue
Sustainable development. What do you care most; pollution or job creation? If you are worried about pollution, close the plant altogether. Zambia is one of the most under-polluted countries in the world.
ECZ,thats your work, if they dont comply just close
The effects of pollution will be felt soon. the environmental council of zed never approved the location of the site but some govt minister pushed it and ignored the issues raised by ECZ. i doubt if indians will manage the pollution
They shud have thought about pollution before the plant was built.They just want to kill people.
Poverty or Pollution? the choice is your, you can not talk of industrial development without pollution all you do is just minimise it thats all. China, Japan, USA, South Africa etc are surviving all because of Industralisation. Do you know how much pollution they are contributing to the enviroment? In case you didn’t know,its more than Zambia!
As for ECZ, go to Soweto market in Lusaka and check if the enviroment is not polluted. Learn not to be hypocrites.
# 9 those countrie you mentioned have sea coast most of the pollution ends up in the ocean. where is Zambia’s going to end to
Kafue has abandant land beyond NCZ and Kafue Textiles. I had a privaledge to view the Kafue Steel Plant on my way to Livingstone from Chief Mukwikile village. The plant is an enormous one but wrongly situated right next to residential homes. This Plant will polute for real. The asian owners have no capacity to control pollution (check where they come from)!Already kafue is polluted by Lee Yeast, they discharge row sewer like stench into Kafue estate. Kafue people are so docile & hungry to even raise a voice due to NCZ closed. Lets talk on their behalf before ethnic cleansing takes Plance due to the steel plant pollution.
#9 you are right on the spot.
#10 it will end where the pollution from the copperbelt mines ends.
#11 i disagree with your allegations that kafue people are very docile. how come they have an environmental watch dog if they were docile. in fact it is thru the effort of this group that you even have chance to deliberate on this issue.
No. 12 thanks for answering No. 10 on my behalf. I am greatful, sometimes we like wasting time on straight forward issues, where was the ECZ when these people were putting up this plant?
No. 11 take a trip to Isando in South Africa, you will realise that within a walkable distance, there are resdential areas. What exactly is a problem with us Zambians?
Blackman’s child-I would realy love to know your former teachers if at all you passed through any high school. Am sure they must have been as dull as the product they produced and thats you. If ur wife has a big hole, honestly, cant u worry if its becoming more and more bigger just because your neighbour’s wife also has a big hole too? Hope u will start thinking positively in future though i doubt if at all u have a future.
No wonder you are a poor man, I wouldn’t blam you coz people wouldn’t notice the difference.
I would blam those two at home, if at all they are alive for not teaching you manners.
blame
#15 tone down.
What pollution?
In Zed there is rubbish every where!
You find people throwing litter anywhere!
Litter flying from cars, mini buses, trains and even house windows!
This culture of throwing litter anywhere and anyhow must STOP!
POLLUTION?
The economy like ours requires a steel plant, the plant will act as a chatarist to our developmental status. In order for the construction industry to grow it will need the same still. Even other industries will directly or indirectly benefit as a result of this plant. Why should Zambia at this time and age continue importing steel from South Africa. Please get me right am not saying we stop buying from RSA, but with the coming of this plant we can reduce the importation levels. God bless Zambia and fellow Zambians.
Look people, development does not have to come at the cost of our health. All the potential sources of revenue and jobs will come to naught if we as a nation are too sick to take advantage. There are numerous examples in the world of what the short and long term consequences of pollution are. We need to learn from those examples. There will always be a certain element of pollution, but we can surely minimize it especially by demanding that such industries adhere to strict pollution control measures.
i thought we advised them before they could even put up the infrastructure,kafue people now have themselve to blame,they should have acted initially by demonstrating that that plant must be away from residential areas.But now its too late,get vested for cancer,dry coughs,grey skins
ECZ should act quickly and save the alredy toxic Kafue twon from any further damage. Industrialization comes with pollution. Hope the steel company will absorb alot of unemployed youths of Kafue and take many people off the streets. Prostitution is another vice in Kafue in addition to poverty and pollution and
It was placed opposite NCZ hoping the 1000s of tones of steel that is NCZ will end up there. The indians positioned the plant next to NCZ in case South Africans come for the steel, they will find a conveuore belt in place moving the steel next door.
At the coming of NCZ Kafue was simply refered to as the “Boom Town”. At the time there was quite a concern that industrial discharge was being dumped in the Kafue River and yet the Lusaka Water Works Plant was miles down stream. If indeed there is no monitoring of pollution levels in water and air, then we are in for big trouble. It won’t be long before we start having all kinds of deseases some which can not be cured. We have to wake up.
These same Indians has a still plant in Bapal which killed and still killing alot of people in India. Some are born deformed. Can the government do something plz.