Lusaka Mayor His Worship Wilson Kalumba and Zambia Police Service Inspector General Mr. Kakoma Kanganja have arrived in Albuquerque, New Mexico for consultations and future partnerships between Zambia and New Mexico under the Sister Cities Foundation.
According to a press statement released to the media by Patricia Littiya, the First Secretary (Press and Public Relations) at the Zambian Embassy Washington DC, Mayor Kalumba and I.G. Kanganja are leading a delegation that includes council officials and Zambia police. The Zambian delegation is being hosted by Sister City Foundation New Mexico Chaired by Patrick Mapalo, a Zambian who lives in Albuquerque.
I.G Kanganja is expected to hold talks with the Albuquerque Chief of Police Gorden Eden at which the two are expected to discuss the planned training program for the Zambia Police Air wing that will see the first batch of 20 officers train with the Albuquerque Police Department.
The first call of business for the delegation will be a courtesy call on Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry at the Civic Plaza.
Lusaka City Council is expected to two fire tenders and two ambulances valued at $3.5 million.
The delegation that includes, Zambia Police Service Director Training Dr. Charles Musonda Mbita and Lusaka City Council Public Relations Manager Mr. Mulunda Habeenzu is expected to among other things hold talks with New Mexico Governor Suzanna Martinez. In 2014 Lusaka city twinned with Albuquerque city.
The Zambian delegation last night met with the delegation from Lanzhou City in China under the auspices of the Sister Cities Foundation. Lusaka is expected to Twin with Lanzhou City.
It should have been the Lusaka Mayor and Lusaka Province Police commanding officer on this trip and not the entire IG!
Ni ma allowances kaili
Kalumba: To learn about creamation.
Kanganja: Not to marry foreigners
@ Donqueen you’re very correct on this one and so is @ Grant however these are standards set by Zambia’s highest office!
Accent yaisa, hope these cats can speak way better than Nigerians.
“Lusaka City Council is expected to two fire tenders and two ambulances valued at $3.5 million.” LT, what does that sentence mean?
Not just police should benefit. You also have to send students from Zambia to go and study in Albuquerque. Since it is a sister city, it shouldn’t be hard for Zambians to study at one or two of the universities.
Albuquerque in Comparison to America and Zambia it can like Shan’gombo. It’s a poor place. They need to do these things with cities like Chicago, Miami, New York or Los Angeles.
Albequerque is a large modern city (even by USA standards) with a population of nearly 560,000 (at 2014) and office capacity several orders of magnitude larger than Lusaka. It is a beautiful city straddling the Rio Grande river in South West USA. By population, it is larger than the more famous cities of Atlanta and Miami.
Albuquerque is a beautiful city ba @ Lombe. I am sure you have not been there. I would prefer to live there than in NYC as it is very affordable, like many Texas cities.
Los Angeles and Lusaka are already sister cities.
Only one is clean and the other dirty.
Why is there silence on the IG’s order on Police Officers not to marry foreigners? Has this been accepted by all and sundry? An order clearly breaching human rights – and the IG is out there gallivanting nonchalantly.
This trip won’t change anything about Lusaka, we just need to change our attitudes towards development and civilization.
The answer lies within ourselves.
Balelyamo big time Ni pa zed fake trips.
Xenophobic police chief goes to xenophobic Trump’s country for some tips on how to police the borders. Will come back and advise Lungu to build a wall round Zambia’s borders
So they are just surprised at how big, developed and clean the city is!
Kanganja should not have been cleared to go to the USA. he is a disgrace and the blood of Mapenzi is still on his head. For the mayor, he is just going to make some allowances. Lusaka is a mess. It is twined with other cities but they have never learned from other cities and the other cities must really be ashamed to be identified with such a filthy city. Look at Soweto market which is like a pigs tine. Only a black man can allow people to trade in such a n environment. Look at the latest dashcam Lusaka videos passing through Kuku or Chawama etc by Lopez and you will see that our civic leaders in Lusaka have no brains
We have a lot of lowlife in high places in Zambia. That’s the problem. You cannot expect a person who stayed in Chawama to appreciate how a city like Lusaka or a whole country can be progressive, clean and upwardly mobile. Instead he brings his gutter life to everybody because that’s all he knows.