North-western Province Permanent Secretary, Dr Eustern Mambwe, has expressed disappointment at the filthy surroundings in Solwezi.
Dr Mambwe has, therefore, called on all government departments, parastatals and business houses to clean up their surroundings and infrastructure to befit the town as a provincial capital.
The new Permanent Secretary said he was not impressed with the dirty surroundings and infrastructure in the town.
Dr Mambwe expressed his disappointment when he addressed provincial heads of government departments, parastatals and business houses during his introductory meeting in Solwezi yesterday.
He said his first priorities are to see to it that there is change of image of the province, cleanliness of surroundings and rehabilitation of infrastructure.
Dr Mambwe called on all government departments, parastatals and business houses to double their efforts in changing the image of the province.
He said the province is blessed with abundant resources for development, including hourbouring the largest single copper mine in Africa, Lumwana mine.
Dr Mambwe said he did not see any reason officers in the province could not be proud to be part of development of in the province.
Meanwhile, Dr Mambwe has cautioned Solwezi Municipal Council against practicing alleged corruption activities in their dealings.
He said according to the information he has received, Solwezi Municipal Council is alleged to be one of the most corrupt councils in the country.
Dr Mambwe has, therefore, directed council officers who own more than three plots to surrender the balance to government.
He said he doid not want a situation where council employees amass several plots at the expense of other people and sell them at exorbitant prices.
The Permanent Secretary also warned government officers against innuendos aimed at backbiting their superiors or other fellow workers.
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really?
People should be held accountable over how they maintain their surroundings
What can you do when they used to living in a dirty environment? Nothing.
How can you make a mistake in the headline sure!
Clean it up!! Then talk about cleanliness….no point in talking about it and doing nothing! We have heard these stories too many times! :-@
Action speaks louder than words!
The PS is suppose to ask the pipo to clean the surrounding why calling a meeting. Time wasters.
mistake pa headline is seriuos baneee… 😮 and whats that PS saying, when his minister for that province, Mulyata is filthy with corruption…….
Morning all!
Ba PS. Sure, today is when you have realised the town is dirty? You want to sound hard working? Thats not how its done. If you want to sound and look hard working, you need to start visiting neighbouring countries every week and start dissolving boards like Zamtel. Thats what your friends are doing. Not ifyo!
Also, let one of your sons import GMO maize into the country. 😮
Morning all!!
Ba PS that sounds like work to me! Nothing wrong!!:d
Ifiko pa Zed fyalichilamo mwe! [-(
WELL DONE BA PS, LET THAT PROVINCIAL HQ BE TIDY AND NICE AS THE MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS WHERE YOU ARE FROM.
BRAVO BRAVO DOC……..
GUYS, HAVE YOU READY TODAYS POST HEADLINE?…. DORA AGAIN
Hey, Dora seem to becoming costly to the National.
Dora is headline nowadays for all the wrong reasons.This lady is still young and she needs to be guided otherwise to let her loose like this and being supported for the wrong reasons is unwise.I see her interference as a serious abuse of office/power.If a tender process was conducted,how in all her senses can she go against that?I smell a very big rat!!!
#11 chachine! Not only in Solwezi but everywhere in Zad . Worse pa Livingstone the tourist capital sure [-(
Dora is in deep #@^^&#$#.
The Post are out to get her and trust me… They will.
The new Permanent Secretary said he was not impressed with the dirty surroundings and infrastructure in the town.[End Quote]
I think the PS is very right in terms of surroundings and basic infrastructure. Good infrastructure is a good move for developing a thriving business environment.
I think it is a good thing the PS has noticed the problem and I commend him for setting up efforts to deal with the problem. Good Job Mr. PS.
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Ba PS good move,since you just coming in you have to set an example and yes the town doesnt look too good especilly that it doesnt even have traffic lights dirty makes it even look worse.keep it up and see to it that the town is cleaned up.thanks also for reminding the council about their dirty tricks and deals,i pray that you will surely deal with those found wanted.
Iwe Dr Mambwe the entire country is dirty, have you ever been to Soweto Market in Lusaka?
How about Kamwala Trading area?
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#20 blackmans fimo fimo
Correct!! This PS wants to sound hard working ifya bufi!!
This PS is brainless… he is coming from Lusaka which is a big filthy place. This is as a result of GRZ and MMD not performing.
Dr ‘something’ pls blame yourself and NOT the peacefull solwezians.
Talk..Talk and no actions… you are the same chaps engaging senseless infestors or as you call them investors who don’t care about the environment. Just shut the F$$$ up and eat the beafitul mushroom solwezi has to offer!!!
#23 Pan Fimo fimo
Iyo, mwalanda mudala! Am speechless.
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am doing fine!!
Friday the 13th :-??
now we know why ps was moved to solwezi
22 Ba Moze these so called leaders, want to sound as though they are from space. Imagine this is the man who has been at Transport and Communication for years, he should just get down to work than bucking like a toothless bull dog.
If he has seen the dirt why can’t he clean it up? and make a difference.
do the job not just words lets see you in action:-w:-w
I swear some people’s thinking patterns are mind boggling. Some people think in the way of Well Lusaka is dirty so we should keep Solwezi Dirty too. This is a great shock to me. This is like pointing out other people’s F’s to make your D’s look good.
These are probably the same people who would say Well I may have gotten 35% but Musonda got 20%.
Just because Musonda got 20% does not mean you passed. You also failed. The best to do is try to study more to make your grades better. This is shocking.
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just testing. Ignore this commentCLEAN YOUR TOWNS PEOPLE! LOOK AT CHINGOLA, FROM BEING THE CLEANES TTOWN IN ZAMBIA IT HAS JUST BECOME SOMETHING ELSE! LUSAKA IS THE WORST AND LIVINGSTONE DESPITE BEING THE TOURIST TOWN IT IS VERY DITRY AS THOUGH THEY DO NOT EARN A LOT OF MONEY FROM THE TOURISTS. TOUR OPERATORS CLEAN THE SMALL OLD TOWN. COUNCIL WORKERS EVERYWHEREARE CORRUPT TO THE BONE AND FOR SURE THEY MUST CHANGE OR ELSE THINGS WILL JUST BE AS BAD. MUCHINGE!
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I thought so too! I was about to unleash!!!!!! 😕
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32. Ba Moze
comment #30 is the test. I was testing out one of the XHTML tags at the bottom here.
However comment #29 still stands. If by unleashing I take it criticizing that comment ( comment #29) then please go ahead and unleash.
I still stand by my opinion
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Ok. I take it, from you comment on #29, you were obviously against us who critised the PS’s statement. Yes you are right about what you have said. However the PS is so hypocritical in his approach over the so called litter in Solowezi. The question is, What has he done? Simply issuing statements does not solve the problem. Thjis is typical of our leaders: All talk and no action!!
Welcome to the real world PS. It is not only Solwezi the whole of Zambia is a s…h…i…thole! Dirty Dirty Zambia!
PS hope u change solwezi. its too dirty.
45 years ago, Kibaki and VJ Mwaanga were in government and Kennedy was running for Presidency. Obama was 1 year old. 45 years later, Kibaki and VJ Mwaanga are still in government, and Obama is President of the United States of America.
In 45 years, Obama’s father is dead, we have had Johnson, Carter, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Clinton, Bush 1 and Bush 2 in USA in between as presidents but in Africa the same guys in their 70’s and 80’s are still trying to tell Africans they can make development models that work?’
Makes u think?? Something is seriously wrong with Africa !!!!! Something is wrong with me & you too!!!
You are perfectly correct Mulamu.
#38 What does that have to do with the lecture at hand?:-?
The truth is Zambia is a dirty country. The reason is because Zambians cherish dirt. What has happened to the “keep Zambia clean” campaign? Did it die with Levy Mwanawasa? Warning: Should the Unity Government work in Zimbabwe, Zambia will have to work extra hard to attract tourists.Even the few that are visiting now will vanish.
Corruption in councils is everywhere in Zambia. For instance Councillors in Livingstone acquire plots which they later sell at K50M each under the nose of the Anti-Corruption Commission office which is situated about 150 metres from the Civic Centre. The whole country is worse than a circus.
we shud blame our leaders. Du Fu, a Tang dynasty Chinese poet, knew to catch a gang of bandits: First capture its leader. He also knew to shoot a rider clear off his horse first. A gang is rudderless without a leader and a rider lost without his mount.
#40. Word of adive, if something does not make sense to you, ignore it, as simple as that.
# 29 Free-Market-Capitalist, No one is encouraging dirt environments here, if anything we need to draw our own lines. If he has seen the problem, let him address the causes not effects. We have heard all these stories for years now.
Some of us are privileged we know these people inside out. They may be saying one thing but in actual sense the mean exactly the other.
# 38 Mulamu, you forgot Sata, RB, Amusa Mwanamwambwa and others.
Oh and the Chief Justice too. God help us
It is not only the dirty even the way the “town” is growing,one would think the entire Government wants to come up with the biggest shanty compound.Be mindfull that a bigger part of revenue comes from this province,let alone when Lumwana is commissioned.
Gvnt should wake up to sort this mess.
Leslie Mbula?? 😕
The answer to all this mess lies in decentralising facilities.We shouldnt have all facilities in one place,i.e bus stops,shops,market place,bars etc.the council should shift the bus stop,town etc to facilitate decongestion.
Residencial sites should also be put somewhere else so that the current town only becomes a second class or shanty.
That tells Zambian story.. we are comfortable living in filthy surroundings. Zimbabwe still looks better than Zed as bad as the economy is over there.
#41 and most of you guys are sick,Honestly how can you say all these negative things about your own country? The problem with us Zambians is that we don’t want to help each other and we dont even appreciate it.please grow up my friend.
We all know that we have fffff up in one way or the other,but what we should do is to find the lasting solution to this unlike unsulting the poor PS.
Sorry i meant Insulting.
Sorry i meant Insulting.
sense…..especially kandundu & so called town center
The real picture should be we should have a lot of sad PS.s because it is filthy everywhere. I hear Cholera patients are given kachasu as first aid before being taken for medical care in some of the shanties. Can this happen. Do we have any paramedics to elaborate.
PS don’t just pay lip service. Introduce a clean up operation.