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Nkoya-speaking people want their own province

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Confusion marred the Kazanga traditional ceremony over the weekend with the Nkoya-speaking people of Western Province demanding the creation of the Zambia’s eleventh province in which their interests will best be served.

Lytone Kaushiku, the Kazanga traditional ceremony national chairperson, abandoned his prepared speech after realizing that the officiating government official was going to be Western Province Permanent Secretary Mwangala Liomba and not President Edgar Lungu or his vice Inonge Wina.

Mr Kaushiku said that Nkoyas do not want to continue being part of Western Province as they are not in favour of the secession of the region.

He said that the province which will be created should be called Kafue and it should include Lukulu, Kaoma, Nkeyema as well as Luampa districts and parts of Kabompo, Mufumbwe and Kasempa.

Mr Kaushiku said that it was disappointing that neither President Lungu nor vice president Wina could find time to grace the occasion, adding that if the trend continues the organizers will only be inviting opposition leaders to officiate at the event.

He said Nkoyas wanted to present their grievances during the Kazanga traditional ceremony directly to the people in authority and bemoaned their absence saying that probably opposition leaders will hear their cry.

Mr Kaushiku said that this year Kazanga is the only traditional ceremony which has been held in Western Province as the Kuomboka has failed to take place for the last three years.

He said as such the organizers of the Kazanga traditional ceremony expected that a very senior government official would grace the occasion and were dismayed that the task was delegated to the Permanent Secretary.

But Mr Liomba said whoever government sends to officiate at an event represents the President as he is the authority who delegates such duties, adding that Nkoyas should accept whoever is sent to stand in for the Head of State.

The Western Province Permanent Secretary, who also did not read his prepared speech, said that he could not officiate at the event in time as he was also busy on assignment with First Lady Esther Lungu who was touring the province.

Mr Liomba, however, said that there are lessons which have been learnt from this year’s Kazanga traditional ceremony, adding that government attaches great importance to such events and the welfare of chiefs in the country.

This year’s Kazanga Traditional Ceremony was attended by several district commissioners from Western Province and three visiting chiefs Mushima of Mufumbwe, Kalunga of Kabompo and Kabulwebulwe of Mumbwa.

32 COMMENTS

  1. Mugabe embarks on his 22nd foreign trip this year.

    Reports last month estimated the veteran leader’s trips to have cost about $70m

    • And how many did your president Lungu clock within 4 months, atleast 15 trips. You can’t even bring that ka $70 million to Edgar’s medical team.
      Read above, the Nkoya’s start to leave PF as well.

    • No part of Barotseland will be succeeded by any one, not even the Litunga (King of Barotseland).

      Nkoyas are just being used for political expediency & now they are crying foul. Lungu & Inonge know the complications of Barotseland, surely this was an international treaty repudiated by the UNIP regime. Barotseland affirmed that divorce on 27 March 2012 via the BNC, the highest decision making body in Barotseland.

      Nkoyas can stay, if not, let them vacate Barotseland b’coz Bulozi is on coarse & determining her destiny without interruption.

      Nkoya is just one of the over 34 tribes of Barotseland who formed the lingua franca called LOZI. Lozi is NOT tribe but a NATION of 34 tribes!
      The BA’64 issue is an international treaty, not yapping!

      The Skeleton Key
      ~206~
      Viva Barotseland!

  2. I love my Nkoya brethren. They speak their minds and are highly intelligent :). President Lungu needs to stop his Rupia vasco dagama trips.

  3. I have a dream that one day Zambians will not be counted by the region or tongue they speak but by the content of their character

    • Zambia was very united prior to 2011. This was not withstanding B64 sentiments which have been with us since 1969. Even B64 cannot divide Zambia if the government swallowed pride and put the interests of Zambia first. Mass arrests and threats of military action against Lozis is not going to bring peace or unity which everyone wants. Let the government remove the tribe element from B64 and it will be resolved. Recognising the thing and discuss it objectively aND holistically and all will go well.

  4. Nkoyas learn a lesson from what is happenig to your mbuyas the tongas . You think you are going to live better life with bwana Chama on controll of things in Zambia. You have lived alongside with your relatives Lozis for a long time. Why cant you resolve your issues with the Litunga and the kuta. Fighting Lozis may not help you. actually you are also lozis do not mislead people for one selfish reason.

  5. That’s true Nkoyas, next time imvite HH, he wil tell you to be cut out of Zambia just as he did to lwindi over the weekend. This is good news. Linyungandambo in western, Kafue Province in western, southern province to be a state, all three states from one region. Now we can see pipo who are trublesome in this One Zambia One Nation motto. Sorry my fomer english teacher at Kambule High School for such a humiliation reception. Next time dont go there but just send police to arest them.

    • I do not support division of the country. Irrespective of the traditional and political set up. Look at what is happening in South Sudan.

      The complicated history of Barotseland should be upheld as required under international law: boundaries cannot be re-drawn.

      Southern Province is the cradle of Zambia. Whether you are ba Kachema (rich cattle farmers) or eat mabisi (yogurt) or are Tonga bulls (well loved by Zambian women in general, especially Bembas!), stay in Zambia.

    • I thought Mr. Kabulubulu was dead. which year were you there Biko? am also a Kambule Technical former student. this is interesting.

    • Nkoyas would starve and finish off the squirrels in Kafue Province if left alone. While Nkoyas are fantastic musicians, they don’t like farming or any type of industry. They are the number one poachers, who poach as far as Zimbabwe from Kaoma. They also want the idle life. They should wait for the day they will be forced to speak to each other exclusively in Bemba. That’s when they will realise how benevolent their Lozi relatives have been.

  6. Oh? Interesting… So the Nkoyas want a new province that will include: Nkoya, Lunda, Luvale, Luchazi, Kaonde, and of course some Lozi people in it? How long before the other tribes begin to fight for their own rights against the Nkoyas in the new province???

  7. This shows how problematic these brothers of mine are. Remember when your brother is fighting with your cousin, you side with your brother. When your cousin is fighting with your neighbour, you side with your cousin.

  8. I’m glad lungu or madam Inonge didn’t grace these *****s. We might as well divide zambia into 72 ethinic groups if this logic is anything go by. It seems lytone kaushiku suffers from scarcity mentality along with the proponents of kafue province. It sounds like these people have been reared, nurtured, and deeply scripted in a hatred for one zambia. Fu#k ’em!

    • They could start off with a written language. As it is it is hard learning Nkoya because hardly anybody speaks the language. And Nkoyas are so few in numbers, although clearly resentful of the Lozis. Nkoyas are going the way of Bushmen in Botswana – marginalised and irrelevant.

  9. We are full of shit in Zambia, now every Jim and Jack can just claim what they want without a single understanding of issues. Why do we like so much attention. People should be demanding real issues not province, is a province going to put bread and butter on your table. We should be more focused to issues that affect our people as traditional leaders not this nonsense we keep experiencing.

  10. Nkoyas need to wake up from slumber! Those people you wanted to grace your ceremony know the truth you are labouring hard to ignore about Barotseland and Zambia and so they do not want to be messed up by you any more!!!!!

  11. I understand that they have been marginalised by the Barotse secessionists. But why do they want a province which includes NWP? it is ok to give them a province within WP. Sata should have done that but i doubt that any other president will be willing to do this. On a similar note, Lungu should allow the inclusion Barotse history in our constitution because it is part of our history

  12. I was at Kambule from 1999-2001. Mr Liomba was my good english teacher, I hate all those who disrespects him.

  13. ina bawesu nadifwa tukofwa province wasu not muchinga or central province. We Lalas of Serenje & Mkushi have been marginalised for too long. Kaunda took away vast arable land and created Nasanga & mkushi farm blocks. our province should be called Lusemfwa province.

  14. This is actually a very good thing. A very very good thing. It shall actually unite Zambia. Now politicians shall be forced to work, because even smaller people groups are knowing their rights. In 2015 no Chief or king should be above you, but YHWH.

  15. MCS (MHSRIP) foresaw this a long time back and had progressive plans to redraw the colonialist boundaries as a surest way of putting an end to this secession/ separation talk but was frustrated by selfish elements.The nkoyas may only be wrong becoz theirs is tribal, but any courageous leader would go further and cut all the ten provinces into much smaller and manageable regions (what happened to decentralisation? just paper work?).Only then will the ideals of ‘one Zambia one nation’ be fully realised and every Zambian assured of safety and comfort anywhere.

  16. People of Zambia u have YOURSELVES to blame because the guy honestly told u that he had no vision for our mother Zambia but u went ahead and voted for him so why are u crying when asked for it? NIMWANA WANYOKO? This is just the beginning u havent seen anything yet. Ine ndeloleshyafye.byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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