Thursday, March 28, 2024

First Lady calls for concerted efforts in addressing effects of floods

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First Lady Thandiwe Banda

First Lady Thandiwe Banda has called for concerted efforts in addressing the challenges caused by floods in various parts of the country.

Mrs. Banda said one of the challenges that should be addressed is the issue of making polluted water clean and safe for drinking.

She said water was very important for human life hence the need to always make it safe for human consumption.

Mrs. Banda was speaking at State House this today when she received 1,200 bottles of chlorine from Society for Family Health (SFH).

She urged Zambians to always appreciate the importance of clean water especially this year when many sources of water have been contaminated by
floods.

She thanked Society for Family Health (SFH) for the donation and called on other corporate entities join in assisting government cope with the effects of floods.

And Society for Family Health Director for Programme Operations, Charles Kalonga said it was prudent to help ease the sufferings of people that have been affected by floods.

In Livingstone, District Commissioner Francis Chika has advised the city’s local authority to desist from allocating land for housing units in flood prone areas.

Mr. Chika sounded a similar warning to flood victims in Livingstone cautioning them against settling in low lying areas and land located near streams.

He said this when he received 100 x 10 kilogram bags of roller meal on behalf of the Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit.

The mealie meal was donated by the National Milling Corporation.

He said it would be unfortunate for the same people to be victims each time the city experiences floods.

Mr. Chika said such people might not receive aid from government if they refused to resettle in safer areas.

He said the recent floods that hit the tourist capital were the worst since 1958 when the entire country was hit by floods.

Mr. Chika said government alone could not tackle all the challenges the country was facing and called for concerted efforts from all stakeholders to work towards the continued development of the country.

He urged other business houses to emulate National Milling Corporation by donating to those in dire need of support.

And National Milling Corporation Managing Director, Peter Cottan said the donation was meant to mitigate the suffering of people who were adversely affected by floods.

Mr. Cottan said this in a speech read for him by National Milling Corporation Livingstone Branch Manager, Dennis Chiwaya.

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10 COMMENTS

  1. Kwebako na ba husband to stop travelling when we have calamities like ama floods kabili abena Thandi naimwe.anyway nice call:-?

  2. Read my blog Thandie, shut you cavenous mouth! After you and your husband go globe trotting, now you want to talk about flood victims! Nzelu kuipa bantu aba! You think you own the sky in that challenger ayi….

  3. 🙂 No# 2 Nubian Princess, the true Cleopatra and original golden jewel queen of the Nile how are you? Mwazanda ka? Thandiwe Ironically would develop Zambia seventy times better than RB would. 1) she ia naive about things always contradicting her husband
    2) Her zeal as a woman seems to be suppressed by the grandfather she ismarried to.
    3) Generally she seems to have that little bit that would want to prove Eurocentric black women wrong.

    No# 3 Sony Ericsson Phiri mulipo, bwanji Mudala my pempelo chabe tizakafika kumwamba.

    No# 1 Mo Taim hi my bululu voca bomfwikishe blessings too.

  4. You look great thandi. Keep it up. Your advisors are far much better than those of your husband. Kabili you should be telling him what to do. Even kuma zero two so. I think Mudala angamvele.

  5. She is calling on who to address the effects of floods? Her hubby is the Presido, she just needs to tell him than directing her mouth somewhere else.

  6. Thandiwe, gradually you are getting sharper and enjoying the spotlight, but what you have just said we have heard a million times before and it has achieved NOTHING.

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