By Rodger Chali
Imagine Lusaka was a brother and the eight other provinces were his siblings. Brother Lusaka is blessed to have his own children called government ministries, 22 of them.
The peculiar phenomena in this relationship is either brother Lusaka is a very kind person or the eight brothers and sisters are very lazy. Brother Lusaka may also be very greedy, being the managing Director of company called Zambia, he has directed his siblings who runs his subsidiaries to send all the profits to him and he alone and his children decides who gets what. It does not matter if sister Copperbelt has been making loses or not.
Brother Lusaka has gone to an extent of telling his siblings he will make education decisions for his brothers and sisters through his son ministry of Education. If you obtain land from Western you may need to travel to Lusaka to obtain the title deeds from nephew Lands and natural resources.
Lusaka understands the pain brother and sister NorthWestern and Copperbelt respectively are going through to produce the copper in terms of road destruction by the heavy trucks which uses those roads. While he has his own road problems were he lives, he has assured all of us nephew works and supply has everything under control.
Nephew Ministry Finance has failed to come up with a system of collecting taxes from the informal sector and has opted the easier way of finding money for the Uncles, borrow from the donors.
His intentions and of his children are good but he is clearly overwhelmed and in some cases his children have become abusive to Uncles and Aunties, getting a passport is a nightmare, the Uncles have to pay double the official price.
Lusaka’s siblings have full potential to develop their own areas, but he has assured everyone he is capable of taking care of us. The end result after 45 years only brother Lusaka and his children are fat and all other eight brothers and sisters except Copperbelt province live without intensive care units in their provincial hospitals. By the way if he gets a flu or his children sneeze, they have an option to go to South Africa.
We get the point you are trying to make but the analogy of the family or siblings used is rather unnecessary and th same message would have been put across quite effectively just in plain simple writing
What’s your point in the final analysis? What do you suggest be done?
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Is this article to be continued. As #1 has observed, the point could have been made in simple, straight forward language. Too much of coloring made the writer to lose track and left the article hanging. No conclusion…! If the writer is lost, what do you expect of the reader?
If you dont have stories you better, shut the hell up.
Whats the point and what do you suggest be done????
Its Clear you are saying most of the dealings are centralized and based in Lusaka maybe we should shift it to Western Province so we can see how many people would be able to travel there how about that??:-?:-?:-?:-?:-?:-?
it’s one of the most useless articles i have ever read!!! LT PLEASE be serious!!!!
I think the writer was trying to say Zambia should decentralise and also broaden the tax base as opposed to external borrowing. As the above blogger have noted, too much colouring obscured the message. The writer should atleast but a conclussion of the point he is making. Maybe he had to obsecure the message which is critical of govt so that LT can publish it….who knows?
Rodger Chali,
You should grow up and learn to think like a western world exposed Diasporan. Your Greatest weakness is talking too much but all childish none intellectual incoherences. As long as you don’t come out original and critical thinking, you risk this self humiliation for life.The article lacks a thesis and message. Its a piece of incoherences through and through. Maybe this is why even your ZBTR where you dress up big titles of Corporate Affairs Director is all but a job with misplaced cadre ambitions. Graduate from immaturity and be what age can bring.
This article demonstrates one of the life-long effects of utu shimi on creative writing. Rodger is a grown man caught up in a time warp of cho-chise. What happened to O’ level English? Where are the adverbs, question tags, the past perfect continuous tense?
you chaps just like to complain and tear down your fellow Zambians.There is nothing wrong with the article.It just expresses common sentiments in an albeit colourful way.Will Zambians ever be united or rather agree to disagree without hurtling insults to anyone with a different viewpoint.Thats why the uneducated villagers will continue to dictate which party rules Zambia.The educated are busy arguing semantics on their Core i7 laptops.
Stupid *****s. You like to sit with the audience and compalin about the going-ons in the arena. If we were to throw you there you wouldnt last a second so..shut up and thank the guy for trying. You must be so dim you didnt pick the fact that he was asking for decentralisation. A sane thing to do. You are all cowards. You like to enjoy the work done by other peoples ancestors. Abraham Lincolm was not your uncle, yet at first opportunity you dropped everything and packed your family and left for overseas. looking from afar. waiting for things to improve before you come back. Cowards. You dont deserve an opinion on things happening in Zambia. Just shut up. Stupid *****s……**==:-@
Ba Chekwe,
You seem to have taken this article very personal, any agenda with the writer. See if there is one point or two you may agree or disgree in the article and argue the merits.
You have a point writer. We need to decentralize even if it is to be done slowly. Why should our people travel all the way from Shangombo, Kaputa or Zambezi to get tittle deeds in Lusaka? Suffocating the meager resources which should be invested on the same land? I would rather tittle deeds for Northern Province are gotten in Kasama to start with. Eventually deeds for Mwinilunga should be obtainable from Mwinilunga itself.
I dont understand why so many pipo are negative. At times its vital to look at a positive point of view than to always criticize, complain and bring down the writer. Honestly, there is some sense in what he has written. Why should we travel all the way from Ludazi to get title deeds for the land bought there. It does not make sense, it would be fair if we could complete the business right there where we started. Lusaka is selfish that is true but then the people managing it are the ones to be blamed…..
you wrote in english buti wenze gananiza mu chi nyanja ka? like a villager sitting outside his hat and drinking kachasu. you see the response now? people have said what they think.Not on this site my brother, people here can analyse issues. c h i p u b a .
kwena tatutasha! umuntu mubi chishinka! this article is interesting, icisosa cipa amano, icibosa cipwa amano! babosa ifi ba sosaaaaa! 😮
most retarded article i have ever read, with no point no climax no nothing. kukonda kuganiza monga wakmunzi jus state your point in clear straight forward english.8-|