Alliance for Better Zambia president Father Frank Bwalya has called on government to take stock of the country’s military planes and get rid of all old and unreliable planes and related equipment.
Commenting on the plane crash which claimed the life of ZAF Deputy Commander Muliokela Muliokela and Colonel Brian Mweene on Monday, Fr Bwalya tells QFM News in a statement that his party is deeply saddened by the continued loss of life on the country’s roads and now through ZAF plane crashes.
Fr Bwalya says every life is highly valued whether highly trained or not, young or old and that everything should be done to save life.
He recalls how as ZESCO Board Chairman he witnessed some government officials cheat death in Shiwang’andu when a ZAF plane crash-landed as it tried to takeoff after President Sata commissioned the Shiwangandu mini-hydro power station in December 2012.
He points out that a few months later a ZAF chopper carrying a senior government official to North-Western province was reported to have undertake emergency landing in Kabwe after developing a fault.
Fr Bwalya says these seemingly isolated incidents should have called for drastic measures to address relevant safety issues to prevent loss of life.
He has since called on government to address this problem with the urgency it demands.
He says deaths of Major General Muliokela and Colonel Mweene are saddening, and has wished the bereaved families God’s consolation at this time of great loss.
If you get rid of your whistle we will also get rid of the planes.
A 26-YEAR-OLD student from NORTEC in Ndola has committed suicide after discovering that a sex worker he had picked the previous night had stolen his K4,000 school fees.
Copperbelt police commissioner Joyce Kasosa confirmed the incident in an interview yesterday and said Dennis Chileya, who was a second year mechanical drafting student at the Northern Technical College, was found with a bottle of doom pesticide by his side around 16:00 hours on Monday at the hostel grounds.
“It is reported that the circumstance which led to the student committing suicide is failure to account for school fees. Hence he decided to take his life. This money would have been found later or the parents would have understood if the student explained rather than taking his life as this is not the solution,”…
Anyway, I agree with Fr. Bwalya, but could have best if he prayed for those poor ZAF.
To ZAF, flying planes is old fashion, buy drones!!
And Zambia shouldn’t even be planning for war, fight who? Give planes to ZAWA to monitor poachers.
@nonsenctradamus,drone are unmaned aircrafts but our official use the lpanes for transport how do you recommend drones?but the zawa plan looks sensible for a change or may be change part of ZAF to zawa.
excuse my ignorance; is it the planes or the maintanance crew