Counsellors advised to discourage people from demanding relief maize

Shiwang’andu Council Chairman, Moses Chanda, has urged his fellow counsellors to encourage people in their respective wards not to be proud beggars and stop demanding relief maize.

Mr Chanda said there is need for people to work hard and produce enough food for consumption so as to prevent hunger in the district.

Mr. Chanda said this during a full Council Meeting held at Shiwang`andu Secondary School yesterday.

He said it is not the will of government to record death due to hunger, saying there is serious need to keep on sensitising people to grow crops that do not require the use of fertilizer if they cannot manage.

He also said people should be not to be selling their produce to briefcase maize buyers.

Meanwhile, Mr Chanda has expressed happiness that the National Registration Exercise that is still on-going will greatly help people in far-flung areas obtain National Registration Cards (NRCs).

Mr Chanda said counsellors in the district are happy that a number of people who had no chance to possess NRCs will now have the national identity cards.

He added that if a number of people possessing NRCs is increased it will help reduce voter apathy in the 2016 tripartite elections.

Mr Chanda appealed to the teams issuing NRCs to ensure that every Village is touched.