Thursday, March 28, 2024

Over 100 houses destroyed in Nyimba

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OVER 100 houses in Chief Ndake’s area in Nyimba District of Eastern Province have been destroyed by the hailstorm.
Nyimba Dstrict Commissioner (DC) Colonel Peter Kaisa said when Eastern Province Patriotic Front (PF) Chairperson Andrew Lubusha paid a courtesy call on him that 80 houses were affected at Nyosale village while 15 houses were destroyed at Yelani village.
Col Kaisa said the people whose houses have been destroyed by the hailstorm are affected more especially with the onset of the rains.
He said the people have no proper shelters after the houses were destroyed by the hailstorm a fortnight ago.
“The people whose houses have been destroyed have no proper shelters because 80 houses were affected at Nyosale with 15 houses affected at Yelani village,” he said.
Col Kaisa, however, said he has written letters to Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit(DMMU) and other relevant authorities for help.

He said he was happy that the DMMU has released bags of relief food to be distributed to the affected people.
He also said the district has received 50,000 bags of fertiliser for distribution to farmers under the Farmer Input Support Programme (FISP).
He said out of 50,000 bags fertilisers received in the district, 43,000 were D-Compound while 7,000 were urea.
He said the remaining bags of urea fertiliser would be received in due course because of lack of enough storage shed in the district.
And Mr Lubusha who is accompanied by other party officials said the party would give bags of mealie-meal and cooking oil to cater the affected families.
He said he was touched that some families have been affected by the hailstorm in Nyimba district.
“I am deeply saddened with the hailstorm which has affected people in these villages and the party will contribute bags of mealie-meal and cooking oil to cater for the affected families,”he said.
Meanwhile,Mr Lubusha told party officials at Aunt Olie not to entertain people who were currently fanning confusion in the party in the province.
He said some people have been working towards bringing the name of the party into disrepute through their clandestine meetings.
Mr Lubusha congratulated the party officials for working hard by delivering Nyimba to the ruling.
He said there was need to support the elected people i for them to deliver the much needed development.
Mr Lubusha said the party members should be loyal to President Edgar Lungu and the Government of the day.

13 COMMENTS

  1. Please don’t call ramshackle huts as houses.Those grass thatched huts are no better than pigsties .50 years after independence you can’t teach. People to properly and smartly use natural grass at their disposal. Don’t they see how smart some thatched look like.I lived in such a bungalow for 30 years in a village. African mentality is really clogged with ancient rust.

    • Don’t despise others if you live in a mansion. Remember if you are belly full, remember that there are those who are suffering. God does not delight in pride and teaser people. You call them are living in grassed roofed house ….. stop it and chishila.

  2. I’m waitig for some Dead Brained P,F politician/ cadre to blame H.H, & G.B.M.
    When they realise their rotten feeble accusations don’t “cut the mustard”- make sense, they will say “through Dark Masonic Magic”
    Problem is the nation is currently being led by these types, & the results on the nation & the economy are visible for all to see.

  3. Lusaka times, you can’t in the first paragraph say the houses have been destroyed by the hail storm, you must say by a hail storm because you are referring to it for the first time. You must know the use of a and the. Am I making sense?

  4. Am confused here. Is DMMU part of the PF or part of Government? The Pf chap goes there to hijack the situation and use the occasion to campaign. And why give them food stuffs and not tents or or other forms of shelters. And what has fertilizer go to do with the plight of the affected people. Useless leaders.

  5. Too sad for my brothers and sisters in my village i hope all is well and no life has been lost. Anyway we pray that the rich fools who have commented badly about the situation are just playing chimbuya, if not they should bear in mind the proverb about the rich fool. we need pictures from the media to show the extent of the damage. God bless you all

  6. I was born in this town and I am very proud of my heritage but in those days and even now houses in these villages are made by erecting logs of trees trimmed to 2m which are carefully bound together in a circular formation and tied at the top like a ring beam to form the support base of the roof while being anchored in the ground 0.5-1m. Then there is what is known n as “Midindo” usually rectangular structures made out of clay soil using a mold and then surrounded by wood polls outside which support and anchor the roof. These structures for those of you that have not lived in them are very strong and to suggest that 100 of them went down is hard to believe maybe that explains why instead of tents DMMU provided relief food. I could be wrong and I apologize for that but this seems…

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