Chieftainess Malembeka of the Bulima people of Masaiti District has urged President Rupiah Banda to visit at least one Chief each time he tours the Copperbelt province.
Chieftainess Malembeka made the call when Mpongwe member of Parliament Gabriel Namulambe and Copperbelt Provincial minister Mwansa Mbulakulima paid a courtesy call on her as they toured development projects in the district.
She said she would appreciate President Banda considering visiting any Copperbelt based chief whenever he was in the province so that he could hear for himself what chiefs wanted from central government for their subjects.
She said her Chiefdom was ready to host the President at his convenience so that traditional leaders could also feel cared for and appreciated for the role they are playing in national governance.
She added that she was surprised that vocal traditional leaders who were always in newspapers and on radio criticizing government were quickly heard and their needs attended to as opposed to the quiet chiefs who wanted to confer with the President in confidence.
Chieftainess Malembeka said she wanted the President to choose one traditional ceremony or two from the province which he should be gracing with his presence as he was doing with other provinces in the nation.
She said there were several traditional ceremonies in the province but none had been graced by the presence of the republican president unlike other provinces with vocal traditional leaders.
She requested for a hearing with the head of State so that some of the problems that her subjects were going through could be resolved.
And in response Mpongwe member of parliament Gabriel Namulambe said he would deliver the message to the President as soon as he was in Lusaka so that he could find time to go and confer with the traditional leaders in the province.
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TO BRIBE YOU! MOST CHIEFS ARE USELESS AND WITH NO INTEGRITY, NOWADAYS. THE CHAP IS OPENLY ASKING FOR A BROWN ENVELOP.
Those brown envelopes should contain more than K1million otherwise the chiefs will be ruthless.
Popular Zambian musician Kangwa Kampamba alias Exile spent a night in Riverside Police station cells yesterday after failing to pay for a K73,000 meal at a Kitwe restaurant. Exile, who has since been released after his wife, fellow musician Nalu, paid the bill today was earlier in the morning still found detained at the police station.
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President should not lower his morale by visiting chief’s palace. Chiefs should themselves travel where the president make press conference(s).