President Michael Sata says government will formulate a national fire policy to provide overall guidance in the provision of fire services.
Mr Sata says it is regrettable that 47 years after independence, Zambia still does not have a national fire policy.
He says his government will start prioritizing fire fighting and rescue services in the national planning and resource allocation.
The president said this in a speech read for him by Local Government Minister Nkandu Luo during the commemoration of the first ever celebrations of the fire fighters in Lusaka.
And the President has also declared May 4th as the officially day for commemorating the event in the country.
Meanwhile, President Michael Sata has with immediate effect created Chembe as a new district in Luapula Province.
“…Would you please liase with all the stakeholders, political parties and their Royal Highnesses in order for them to establish the centre where the district headquarters will be located,” read the excerpt from President Sata’s letter to Luapula Province minister Hon. Rodgers Mwewa.
Since taking over office, President Sata has been establishing districts countrywide in line with his campaign promise to decentralise government operations for the effective and efficient delivery of services to the people.
ZNBC
Stop with the policies. Equip existing fire houses with fire engines and training for fire personnel.
MCC just gave Zambia over $300m for water and sanitation. Use it well and install fire hydrants around the city. Water puts out fires not policies.
You have to start with the Policy first dear and the equping of fire houses should conform to policy outlines
Everything starts from policy to set guidelines, that’s how governments operate, how thick is ya dome iwe ka Nubian Princess? Nubian Princess my foot!
#1 how can the the president equip existing fire houses without a policy in a place?
You really need to get a life,, not just making useless comments
Most of what you say is baseless
Luapulaare truelly wonderful people and they have accepted this move. Others would have seen it as a tribal move or disadvangeous decision. But as usual Bembas, Aushis, Ngumbos, abena kabendes, lundas and cishingas are non-tribals. Ngaba Tonga, Hainyengale Huimwine nga aimya na matwii.
Ba Chapasuka:
Kwesu kwali wamisho ko tulye minofu ya mbowa … Kwesu kwali wamisho ko tulye minofu ya mbowa … Kwesu kwali wamisho ko tulye minofu ya mbowa … Ala kwesu kwali wamisho ko tulye minofu ya mbowa.
the president of appointing,firing,creating with immediate effect…lol.
Go kiss a toilet seat. Nothing Sata does will ever satisfy you. Yipika Ye
MCS, the way to go..!!
ba marketeers ba pa dont kubeba, did dont kutina on Prof Luo….lol
How can you work without a policy dear? who for example pays for the services, who benefits, to what extent, are fire fighters local government workers or central government workers? Further, its not just Lusaka that needs the services all districts in the country. From this point of view there need to be policies dear. In other countries the fire fighters only provide services to areas within the city outside it people have to pay, in others still people contribute money for insurance which directly support fire fighting! which among these would you love to be our policy looking at our small economy?
No-1 policies are also important..eg No building shall be declared habitable if threr are no fire fighting equipment……..dont show your ignorance. I work with these things in Mzansi .
Creation of a new district seems to be politically motivated. How come new districts are being created in PF strongholds? What are the drivers for such a move? Last time I was in Chembe,at the whole area is one big bush with no people and development!! I do not see any justification to create a district apart from political reasons.
Wrong sir; Chembe is about 89KM from Mansa; and 85KM from Mufulira (assuming you go through the DRC). Imagine; for everything you need in Chembe has to be 80+ km to find; we better be serious as we critisize. When a small town is made a district, it becomes possible to attract key services, such as financial, nefyashala. If no president does not change the way Zambia has been shaped in the last 47 years, who will? No woder we have 1 single lane for 80000plus KM of roads in Zambia because no one thinks of “the future”. Well done our Kaponya President.
4.1, I guess scattering districts even in places not inhabited makes it just too costly to run the country. How many investors are in Mwense? How many are in Kalomo? What about Chongwe and KALABO? Who are the financial services going to serve in a marketless place? Its sheer waste of time, resources and manpower. We have to be prudent!
I thought that was the whole essence of devolution. Giving power to the districts so that they manage their affairs easly. When I was in Mansa in 1978, every time the luapula overflows. We had to go to Kasama to jump on TAZARA because the Samfya Mansa would take you weeks just to cover that part. Lets be objective fellas. Why are we rooting for Micheal Sata to fail when all is trying is help develop the country. If you have suggestions, please bring them up instead of just criticising everything the government is doing. Just because fwe bambi tuleumfwa bwino ukune’ngena mu matobo, does not entale every zambian is having the same. lets help develop the country we love by offering suggestions instead of just criticising MCS and his PF government.
jonathan ulimbwa am sure. president created in southen chilundu and did y=u say
What is this issue with forming districts which are not supported in the national budget? Does this confirm that our president does not respect planning and budgeting at all? We are really in a bananca country, in a sinking boat while it is on land. Total confusion.
Ba Chola #3, so you are a fire fighter in South Africa, get home man and help develop Zed.
#1 do you know that what u have line up for the grz to use $300m are policies? What Sata is saying about fire is that we luck a plan. And those that want districts in none PF strongholds are forgetting the protests they are putting up when these districts are created in none PF. And then we have geniuses talking about the budget, has the PF said which budget they will use to develop these districts? May be it is 2014 budget.
I thought Chembe was already a district by now, good job Your Excellence.
imwe ba LT you have all my posting pending.okay good day i wont post again.
Dont get emotional brother for we all go thru the same thing. At least this one was posted and that’s why I am responding.
dats a gud 1 2 creat a new district.
When are you going to decentralize?
this is our president!
COMPLAINANTS;
keep on as we move forward.
And blogers who have been insulting Sata ,must read today’s post newspaper’s editorial comment.
State House needs to employ someone who can write intelligent speeches in good English. The statement by George Chellah on the creation of the new district is in broken English. So was the president’s Labor Day speech. Imagine what the international community thinks of Zambia when they hear such speeches from the so-called president of Zambia. You may not be the smartest president, or the most educated one for that matter, but you can do yourself a favor by employing the best minds around. Sata is probably more intelligent than Arap Moi. But Moi sounded more intellectual because he surrounded himself with brillian minds who not only wrote his great speeches but gave him quality advice as well.
Broken English does not matter as long as the message is coherently delivered. The ineternatinal community is not all english speaking for your information. Have you heard the chinese speak english better? Do not belittle your self. I would be more worried if the president spoke broken Bemba, his mother tongue
No wonder George is defriending people like you on facebook. Can you please avail us the broken english George wrote or said. It’s not fair to propagate wrongs just because you do not like him. George Chellah is very eloquent as a journalist, all the more reason he was picked as PA to the President. Typographic errors we all make.
@Amayama, we’re considered an English speaking country, and the quality of the language is a reflection of the quality of our thoughts. If you say it doesn’t matter for as long as the president can speak fluent Bemba, then he might as well not use English.
@Coachez, this is nothing personal. I don’t intend to be on Chellah’s facebook. That doesn’t mean I don’t like the guy. I actually wish him well. If he is your friend, simply advise him to take a class in presidential speech writing. He can do that in the comfort of his office. He will be doing a great service to himself as well as the country. The man is a civil servant and a representative of the presidency. He’s not bad, but he can do better that.
Oh PULIZ!
No.11,I have read the whole Post Editorial in to day’s Post.I thought somewhere within his letters M’membe will shed light as to whether they have fully repaid the DBZ K14Billion loan which they fraudulently obtained.But alas,M’membe has said nothing about repayments but merely complaining about how his case moved from his preferred Judge Wood to Hon.Mutuna.My opinion is that Sata should have zeroed more on pressing M’membe and his fellow crooks to repay the loan they got from a public Institution that survives on tax payers money than suspending Judges.
#14, that is Sata, what do you expect when the case also involves the DPP. At some point the case will be dismissed all together. Mmembe is the defacto co-president of Zambia, for your own information.
It is counterintuitive to have good fire policy on paper and by the same breadth negate its implementation and effectiveness by having uncontrolled street vending.Ba Sata you cannot allow street vending to attract voters to PF and not have conflict of interests in town planning.Street venders are a fire hazard.
When the president creates districts in other provinces, you complain, so he creates them where they are no complaints. By comparison, Luapula Province is a smaller Province and should have been the last to be considered for a new District cos you can literally visit all the district in one day. Compare that to WP, Central, NWP, SP?
What does this mean? It means that if there was a resource formulae where the sharing of resources involves giving a fixed amount of resources say of K20 billion to each district and then share the remaining K300 billion based of population, Luapula will have a greater share cos one or profit more, shorter distances, less fuel, each district has fixed share. So continue denying realignment and you have yourself to lose.
Walanda ifishinka. These tribalist never learn and at the end of the day, they want to complain why their provinces or districts are not developed!
the way to go my president!!!
Everything should be initiate from policy to drive through change, Gov’t should also incorporate Fire Risk Assessment mandatory for Commercial enterprises as a way of generating revenue for this department.
The Fire Dept..shouldn’t just to respond to emergencies like house fires – although that role is life saving and must never be forgotten. They should attend road, rail and air traffic accidents, clean up chemical spills and floods, and defend against acts of terrorism too.
This is where the Govt. should consult our overseas counterparts the British and US Fire Dept. for training,advice and updating of machinery.
Ubu ebwaume. Giving suggestions, not ukulatuukaukafye in the name of wanting to be heard. Way to go brother.
Thats one PF cadre job created ; DC in Chembe
What starts with “F” and ends in “uck” ??? Its not what you think,dummy,its firetruck.
@st Louis, stop mixing issues. Sata has created 2 districts in luapula province. And this is not the same with parcelling two districts in southern province to other province. Honestly, only western and northwestern province are deserving of new districts. They are both two and half times larger than luapula. This is another clever way of transferring resources to his favoured provinces!
Then why dont you ask the litunga by powers you vested in him to stop dictating who does what if you want to see the same development. We Bembas and Ushis learn very quickly as to what is in our best interest. If you do the same instead of clinging to tribal superiority, very soon western province will be very developed. Northen Western Province, the are slowly learning going by the mines being opened there.
The way to go. Those that rejecting creation of districts by the time they wake up development would by passed them. They will complain of no development in their provinces. I urge the president to creat more districts where I come.
The way to go. Those that rejecting creation of districts by the time they wake up development would by passed them. They will complain of no development in their provinces. I urge the president to creat more districts where I come from.
Black people!What’s is wrong with Black people?Is it hard to go to school and not study or do homework? Is it hard to not have a job and just steal when you want something? Is it hard to have children and not support them? And avoid the sacrifies that other people make for their children? There are no bad neighborhoods, only bad Black people.Come Out, Come Out, Whoever You Are! Take responsibility Black people!.
Pass the puke bucket,please.
You blogger calling yourself Mushota. You’ve been commenting here silly for years. Is your day mad eby annoying black people? You think every black person you see has travelled your stereotype route? You think you know black people, hey? Do you you have an idea of how many blacks perished at the hands of your superior race? Have you ever heard of the KKK, skin heads or colonialism? Read the 400 year history of the black man and then jerk yourself, you stereotyping racist, minute penis, v j j smelling, inferiority complex plagued, under achieving, piece of pig squirt!
and build more learning institutions comments here shows how stupid and ignorant and narrow minds the majorities of zambians r, every few knows the implictions politics of little expossure can hold the country back
To the Patriotic Front. I am seriously lobbying that we get an investor to develop a Bangweulu University at Samfya or even at Mansa.
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Can someone help me, please? Does creating more districts or provinces reduce or increase the size of the government?
For all intents and purposes, the creation of Chembe district has been long overdue. For a start, Chembe is a border post right across the Luapula from DRC. It needs real municipality office with every sensitive officer in place including a Chief Immigration Officer, Chief Intelligence Officer, Chief of Police, a Mayor, judges and councilors just to mention a few. With Mansa being over 80 KM away and Mufulira at approx 76 KM, it makes operational sense to upgrade Chembe to a full district. Besides, all major border towns are almost run the same way, from Livingstone, to Chirundu, Kazungula, etc. Kwesu kwali wamisho ko tulye minofu ya mbowa … Kwesu kwali wamisho ko tulye minofu ya mbowa … Kwesu kwali wamisho ko tulye minofu ya mbowa … Ala kwesu kwali wamisho ko tulye minofu ya mbowa.
Chachine mwana wesu. Kwesu kwali wamisha uko tulye minofu yambowa. Most of the provinces that still live in the past and accepts the dictates of their chiefs however wrong, will continue wallowing in under development. Fwe batabwa, abaushi na babemba, we learn very quickly to embrace what’s in our own interest. Bachili baledabwa. Imagine the noise that was created about Chirundu, Choma and Itezhi tezhi when everyone from Chembe to Mansa including the chiefs are celebrating this development.
Ba Coachez:
I have got one word for you my childhood friend … ambidexterity!!! Tubulu aliba ambidextrous, that’s why abela successful in everything he does. Kwesu kwali wamisho ko tulye minofu ya mbowa … Kwesu kwali wamisho ko tulye minofu ya mbowa … Kwesu kwali wamisho ko tulye minofu ya mbowa … Ala kwesu kwali wamisho ko tulye minofu ya mbowa.
“Mwaikalila ukutweba abati tubulu tubulu, kwesu kwaliwamisha uko tulye minofu ya mbowa. Whilst the ushis/bisas are rejoicing about the creation of this district which was long over due, the people from southern and western still continue making noise about the same thing with regard to Chirundu, Choma, Itezhi tezhi etc. One of the things northerners know better, is to identify what is in their own best interest, and they learn very quickly. When Muchinga Province was created, even mwine lubemba MHSRIP acknowledged the reality of running Mpika 400 kilometers from Kasama. Start learning from us you southerners and westerners. Burying you head in the sand like the ostrich, will only spell disaster for your areas. At least the people in NOWEP are learning fast from the opened mines.
Ba Coachez:
I have got one word for you my childhood friend … ambidexterity!!! Tubulu aliba ambidextrous, that’s why abela successful in everything he does. Kwesu kwali wamisho ko tulye minofu ya mbowa … Kwesu kwali wamisho ko tulye minofu ya mbowa … Kwesu kwali wamisho ko tulye minofu ya mbowa … Ala kwesu kwali wamisho ko tulye minofu ya mbowa.
Hahaha,wewe #26 unachekesha sana.Hata hivyo sioni mwendo huu wa Sata ukifaulu sababu yeye hajasoma vizuri na mambo yake hufanwya ghafla bila mipango.Hii nchi ya zambia ni nchi iliyo na laana na sioni ikifaulu kamwe.Wajinga hawa na wadhaifu wenye uchafu,uzembe na kupenda pombe mbele ya kazi.
This president must be a real magician when it comes to making money? Money must grow on trees in his world. Could he not have created one district and use it as “pilot project” for future districts?? Learn the lessons and use then for latter “creations”. That would be a planned way of doing things.
@ blogger calling yourself Mushota. You’ve been commenting here silly for years. Is your day made by annoying black people? You think every black person you see has travelled your stereotype route? You think you know black people, hey? Do you have an idea of how many blacks perished at the hands of your superior race? Have you ever heard of the KKK, skin heads or colonialism? Read the 400 year history of the black man and then jerk yourself, you stereotyping racist, minute penis, v j j smelling, inferiority complex plagued, under achieving, piece of pig squirt!
We need even more districts,the new constitution proposes 200 constituences,those who do not want to move with time will be left behind.More districts means more councils,more jobs employment and more money in the pocket.
Ba Mushota if you have nothing to say keep quiet. You are a lost, cursed little numbskull. Why do Zambian affairs concern you? If you claim to be educated, your education has not done you any good. You are such a useless swine, grovelling bootlicker. For all the insults on an entire black race, you receive all the curses on your offspring for all generations!
@Mushota, go clean some shoes, ass wipe!
People, I remember one Dr Kazhila Chinsembu now Prof. at University of Namibia used to tell us there is a difference between receiving TRAINING and EDUCATION. Some people have received some training to do certain tasks, even complicated ones, but they are NOT educated. EDUCATED people are equiped to analyse issues and their understanding of issues is broader! Are you a trained fellow or an educated one?
Mushota i know you are a lady who think only white is good. You are black too and mind you we are told that we live in a global village. When i grew up , people in town were laughing @ us saying uwa kumushi using you same mentality. These days people from town come to the village as brief case men to beg villagers for business so that they can survive in town.
Creating or granting any place a district status does not develop it or indeed garantee its development.
How may places have been called districts for a long time now and yet they look like primitive villages?
The same man who is now renaming things and changing statuses of places had been in government all his life, till 2001 when his thrid term bid to continue with what he called ‘good governance’ of Chiluba. He was no.3 to Chiluba yet he did nothing to influeance anything that he now thinks others were failing.
Are we going to just oppose his moves? by no means No!
What we question is the rationale behind his ‘naming’ of things. So far SATA has named so many things including the three airports, the Lusaka general hospital, etc. but what development has that brought?
Ba Fine naimwe. A name is just that- a name! Don’t expect any “physical development” with renaming of a facility. It is all about archiving our history in living memory. This is common in other countries. Ever heard of JFK airport or space centre? The physical development you are refering to is also being addressed. Development has many facets you simpleton.
Bantustans will never like sata..their Motto”you’l never make us proud,not even in our dreams” . Now ,if you thinking you are having a political nightmare !oh im sorry unfortunately you are WIDE awake..
Chama was chopped from Eastern.
Muchinga from Northern.
Easterners and Northerners didnt complain.
Whatever thing you want you Bantustans are just selfish nowonder your HH was pazzled to learn that Sata wont honor the BLA,Surely which sane zambian would wish to devide our nation. You want to see development at national level in 200 days, thats temporal insanity you having…
#46 Iyantutu,
No Zambians wishes to divide the nations as being advocated by the BLA activists.
But why was SATA lying to them that he would honor the BLA??
So for you, you dont mind having a lying president.
You will never understand the badness of lying until he lies to you.
It appears that you embrace such values as lying and cheating.
SATA cheated the people of WP and robbed them of their valued votes by lying to them that he would honor the BLA.
Nobody wants SATA to honor the BLA, but of course noboday wanted him to lie in the first place either, that he would honor the BLA. SATA OBTAINED VOTES BY FALSE PRETENCE and that is a criminal offence by our laws. It is a corrupt act, that of dishonesty.
Even his 90 day policy was pretence to dupe people of their precious votes.
The hate for Sata and Bembas is just toomuch from our brothers.. Ok what do you wish him to do right now..? And which VOTES did the Ngambela and his cohorts give PF..Results show that HH and UPND won that side,oh you were not there during elections..get it Sata did well in Northwestern not in western..! lies, oh so you believed HH with his ZMK5 Million minimum wage..the world is a magical place..politics of tribe and or race are long gone..
This is a welcome news bane. We are not like the rest of the people in southern province who don’t want change but satisfied in the way things has been since independence. We are happy of the progress sata is making and so far for Chembe to move from Mansa as a district on its own. This indeed is our thumbs up. Those who are not from this area have no right to open their dirty mouths and criticize this move. We welcome this move with open hands.
Tongaz U will complain untill u burst. we are ruling, so more dvpmnt in N & L provinces. Loziz go to heal!!!!!!!
I’m a south african and a fire fighter would like to assist in your fire department for free. Please help with contacts. Fire is dangerous people shud learn to improvise have basic knowledge on fire and rescue