Chiefs from Itezhi Tezhi and Siavonga districts have told a stakeholders meeting in Choma that they are strongly opposed to the realignment of the two districts to central and Lusaka provinces respectively.
Speaking during a stakeholders meeting at Choma sports club , chief Kaingu of Itezhi Tezhi said he and other four chiefs in the district in exception of chief Musungwa have totally rejected the idea of realignment of the districts.
Chief Kaingu who spoke on behalf of the district chief’s council said all the five chiefs in the district are in total support of the stance taken by the Southern Province Royal Foundation to reject the re-alignment of the two districts.
He said the people of Itezhi Tezhi still want to belong to southern province administratively.
Chief Kaingu said president Sata would do well to listen to the cries of the people of southern province and rescind his decision to transfer the administration of the district from southern to central province.
And chief Chipepo of Siavonga said people under the Sikoongo and Chipepo chiefdoms under the newly created district of Chirundu do not want the district to be administered from Lusaka.
Chief Chipepo said the valley people are greatly disturbed by government intention to realign their district to Lusaka province.
He said president Sata should immediately rescind his decision and cancel the transfer of the two districts to Lusaka and central provinces.
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listen to the people mr president if want to live longuÂ
Give us a break and let PF rule us you tribalist
SP in the news… all because petty politics from the head of state… Also the other issue according our local governance system, a district is politically be the Mayor/Council Chair elected among the Councellors, who constitute the COUNCIL. All these guys in the two contetious are supposed to be UPND councellors and they vowed never to recognise the change of districts. A Full council meeting also constitutes the Chiefs… how these districts works… consultation guys… Anyway we know the intention of Govt is to cripple them than to make them operational… so that if they continue resisting they will get any funds and it will affect the service delivery in these areas, such that people will begin to think twice whether they should still continue voting for UPND… But it will not work
The people have spoken, But will those who govern LISTEN??? Why go ahead with something that is sowing so much division??
haha…. Some say let PF rule? thats the problem… they are supposed to serve the people, ruling is colonial…
Sata is now serously creating unneccessary problems instead of concetrating on investment which Zambia desparetely needs to catch up on 21st centuary development. Please set your priorities straight Mr President
Sata’s attempt to break up the tribal cohesion in southern province will not yield any result. He thinks by creating what he calls Supper Tongas in ITT and Inferior Tongas in the Chirundu district they both will find reason to leave southern province. Let him try something else intelligent and not this one from the kaponya’s manual.
I emphasised during the run up to elections and most of you said he has changed.Next it will be the guy rights law in parliament
Zambia is and has always been a peaciful country,its people of all the 73 tribes have lived in harmony since independence. Today I wonder why this animal spirit of division is coming from peolpe we believe are our brothers and are part of zambia. The above issues as brought out by Zambian wacthdog surely shows how selfishness has griped the so called MMD/UPND and BRE.To be a president of zambia can be be achieved by anyone as long as God allows it.Dr chiluba was not triablistic as seen by his choice of mwanwasa who was a lenje.So listen sail your self well and you will get the zambian vote weather you are tonga ,lozi,lala,nyika etc.It will not come by dividing zambia. Keep dividing us and you will surely not be president of zambia.PF and The President have zambia’s intrests.VIiva PF.
muzativuta Imwe Batonga. you think you are the only tribe. give us a break. those days of Bantu botatwe are long gone. Be civilised and Grow up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sha!
Southern Power-United We Stand Divided We Fall.We know what we want for our children’s children.Sata must be formally declared and awarded certificate of a failed president
@name chikala chobe wiso aletomba ingombe elo bayabika fertised ovum muli banoko.
IT is not about Southern Power sir.It is about Zambian power that will Get southern province a chance to Rule Zambia. As Long as you limit yourself to only Southern power i am so sorry for you guys.Get the support from all Zambians and you will get our vote from all the 73 tribes.Mwanawasa lenje—— Banda -Nsenga——- Chiluba -lunda——- Kaunda Bemba—-Sata Bemba——These people didnot get votes from only where they come from but got support from the 73 tribes of Zambia.So guys wake up and sail yourself properly because zambians are one Nation and we shall be so until Jesus comes.
@Kelvin Mugala: This problem has been created solely by the PF Govt and not the MMD/UPND and BRE as you suggest. From the onset The Govt failed to engege stakeholders and despite strong opposition they have failed to articulate the benefits of re-aligning these districts. Simply suggesting that it’s to pave way for decentralisation does not explain the benefits. Instead the Govt is blaming the opposition and using threats to silence people with democratic rights to air their views. Govt needs to listen and sell the benefits and if they are none then perhaps listening won’t hurt as much
How can someone say tongas are not civilised. Please lets not insult each other. slowly zambia is going into trouble tribal division. We are wactching and listening to all what you so called clever bembas. Be assured that your days of recount is not far. We as tongas have a right to our province. Mind you when did zambia became Zambia. We have livedly peacefully and happily in our province, now we are been called all those names. Our home shall always be our home. To hell with Satan and Catholic for that matter. He is not a true Catholic at all.
The reporter N0.1 Do you want to bewitch the president?
I’ve never seen such a divisive President like King Cobby! All this realignment nonsense is just a distraction from real developmental issues.
Tribe,tribe tribe,it will not take anyone anywhere to think in tribal lines.We know these meeting are organised by UPND through chiefs like mukuni.There more people think on tribal lines the less they refuse to see beyond their noses.UPND is a bitter loser and this issue will not make them change anything.Tongas are wise people and should not be misled by a few people who are bent on sowing tribals seeds.It will not work.It does not make a sense for one chief who has probably been paid an allowance to speak on behalf of everybody.He might just be expressing his personal views.
KEVIN MUGALA @ Kaunda is not bemba. Stop exposing your ignorance. KK is tumbuka and was just born in Chinsali. Why do you think all his children have tumbuka names? Such as Panji, Wezi, Masudzo, Kambharangi, Waza etc. KK is half Tumbuka and half Tonga from Malawi
Why do some people blame the victims? The people in Southern region of Zambia have had their set up disturbed deliberately by a decision made in Lusaka without consulting them and you want them to just accept it no matter how they feel about it. Their feelings are not supposed to matter. They have no right to be heard? WHY??? Are we under apartheid regime?
How can you people here be fighting each other when Sata the instigater of this nonsense is relaxing at State House? This is how senseless wars and genocides happen. Nobody else but Sata is the problem here(and him alone)
That is what I am trying to say!!……. Lundazi Royal Family.Its not about ignorance sir as you suggest.The real issue is that we have tribalized this all thing.Zambians are mature people and are one nation,73 tribes and have lived togather for 48 years in peace. please don’t divide us.
Why is it that Sata becomes President and all of a sudden tribalistic bigotry breaks loose in Zambia? Well, this is not happening in a vacuum, it’s doing so in a context and that context being Sata’s tribalist appointments that have excluded whole provinces like Southern, Western and North-Western from his government. It is the lies too, though the one about honouring BA64 just won’t let go, this has the potential to tear Zambia apart! And from all indications, if Lozis leave, their tribal cousins in North-Western and Southern will be the next to butt out.
Here I’m fully with my Tonga cousins, no single part of buTonga should ever be surrended to any province. These two disctrics are the richest in hydro electricity in Africa and it is only mercenaries like Mwanachingwalala who think that these re-alignments, or whatever Sata calls them, are not devious and solely intended to impoverish my cousins! We will stand with you on this matter “incobeni ncobeni, tuli bantu bomwe!
these pathetic failures(PF) are so crazy..they want to amputate SP so they could steal properly..let the Tongas remain united on this..don’t listen to Musungwa,Mwanachingwala and mwenda..they are hungry!!
UPND lost at National level. UPND won in Southern Province. Period. What can stop it winning again and again and again. Go UPND. Go Tongas. Ignore people who hate the tribe.
All this is Because of Lack of Consultation.Had our Govt Discused with these Chiefs, all this would not have been there. This Govt has totally failed.
I think we are all missing some very important aspects of role of the republican presidency in all our discussions here. The presidency has the executive power(s) to make those decisions not the chiefs, chiefs howbeit important to the process are nothing but un-elected county clerks in modern democracies. The powers that be as enshrined by the constitution give the office authority to thus act and administer the affairs of the republic without repudiation. The problem we are having here is that people are giving and/or trying to transfer such powers to chiefs who are not accountable to anybody but themselves. Besides, realignment is part of the necessary change required to bring the much needed development, you can’t develop while keeping the status quo.
My only worry with this presidency is that it might end up being one of the weakest presidency the smart people of the Zambian Enterprise have ever elected because of lack of consistency and follow through. The president needs better advisors at the moment because be it the Barotse issue, the economy, decentralization or whatever issue you want to talk about no one seems to know which direction the country is taking which is sad because I would like to see President Sata succeed just like any other president. A successful presidency brings about a successful nation, a weak presidency brings uncertainity and that’s not what I want for a country I love so much, the stakes are high. If I was president, I would certainly handle things differently.
I agree with you #29.
the problem with some Zambians is that they are still bound by their stone age animal clan headmen called chiefs called …
you are well travelled and your thinking is broad but this tunnel minded are very hard to convince especially when all they see is tribe.
#30, you are right about that we actually need to see leadership here especially now that the honeymoon is now over. For instance on the Baroste issue, this is the easiest of all the current issues to start with and the President would lead the nation by holding necessary summits with all the chiefs. He would start by showing that the Barosteland Agreement cannot stand the test of time because it was flawed. To start with the Litunga did not have any legal rights to speak on behalf of all other chiefs unless they were all his subjects. All chiefs from the SP, Central, C/belt and N/W could be in the same meeting and challenge the Litunga’s authority. If it is proven that, the Litunga had no jurisdiction, then anything else is flawed, problem solved, parliament ratifies … case closed!
@31 B R Mumba: I agree, in most part, with your thinking but the notion of the executive powers lying solely with the President does not take away the principles of democracy. Being a leader requires an art that attracts people to believe in you and this by far simply means positively influencing the “gate keepers” or otherwise messengers. Sata won the Sept elections because of the support of the Post newspaper – An influencing “gate keeper” for many Zambians. Chiefs, un-elected as they are, are influencial gate keepers for many Zambians, educated or otherwise, and it is important that even with a the powers in the land, the President learns to those powers wisely and consult on certain matters to ensure he carries the electorate with him.
@ 32, thanks a trillion for your input and I partly agree with you. In terms of genealogy, I actually come from a chiefdom and could easily ascend to the throne if I wanted to but I choose democracy over a monarchy any day. In a true monarch, you have no say … it is all about what the chief determines to be best for the general populace, in a true democracy it does not matter who you are and where you come from, you have the right to self-actualize just like any other human being. In a true monarch the glory and power is a repository of his/her majesty in a democracy the repository is in “WE THE PEOPLE”. I choose accountability over enshrined within a constitution under a democracy over self imposed rules under any chieftainship. Democracy is not perfect but superior in every sense.
That’s the reason we are ruled and served under the republican presidency to become masters of our own destiny as a nation. Chiefs can be recognized but rule under subjective objectives governed under the Chief’s Act because left to their own vices, chiefs have the ability to ruin a nation as opposed to ruling and leading over their subjects. We still leave the county powers over land in their hands because of descendancy but other than that, they are a glorified set of un-elected county clerks, as powerful stakeholders as they are but the executive powers are superior and constitutionally mandated in the presidency
Alot of empty tins here…