Chief Kalaba of the Ushi people of Luapula Province has demanded for a Secondary School in his chiefdom in order to curb the incidences of early marriages among his subjects.
Speaking when Luapula Province Permanent Secretary Dr. Buleti Nsemukila paid a courtesy call on him, Chief Kalaba said his chiefdom has 11 primary Schools and four community schools but without a Secondary School.
The Chief said the pupils were walking long distances in search of secondary school education which sometimes cause their parents to surrender them into early marriages.
He said his Chiefdom needs a secondary school to keep young girls longer in school.
Chief Kalaba said the Secondary School should be given to his chiefdom this year because it is urgent and if he does not see action leading the secondary school coming to his chiefdom, he will make a trip to state house to demand for the School.
He added that the high Secondary School boarding fees were a recipe for drowning young girls into early marriages which could be cured by having a Secondary school within a walkable distance.
And Luapula Province Permanent Secretary Dr. Buleti Nsemukila said it is important to look after the young girls by keeping them in school because they are the future of Zambia.
Dr. Nsemukila added that education is the key to their progress in adult life.
Its time to demand and not begging wapya?
Long overdue! That chiefdom is too big not to have a Secondary School.
Luapula does not need schools because those put in power to foster this development send their children in other provinces. A least developed province require principled individuals to enthuse this vision. The people of Luapula appear to have directionless over their needs, be it politically or economically. Their second republican president busked in huge opportunities both in political power and reserves inherited from a previous regime. What did Chiluba do?, buy suits from UK, Belgium and was convicted here in UK leaving Luapula in ‘ubututu’.
People in Luapula must redefine themselves and let go retrogressive mind set of so long they gang up with PF under Sata or gang up with PF under Lungu while the province is without schools, roads or hospitals.
@3 MunaDekhane, you are right on much of what except:..”Their second republican president busked in huge opportunities both in political power and reserves inherited from a previous regime”-WHAT RESERVES did CHILUBA INHERIT FROM UNIP apart from a $7Bn FOREIGN DEBT and DYING MINING SECTOR? OF COURSE CHILUBA WAS NOT WISE TO FAIL TO DO EVEN ONE MAJOR PROJECT IN LUAPULA!! and then again on this “….so long they gang up with PF under Sata or gang up with PF under Lungu while the province is without schools, roads or hospitals”- supported this party PF, for CONSISTENCY, giving them CHANCE TO PROVE THEMSELVES! HOW DO YOU KNOW, MAY BE SO FAR THE PF HAS DONE BETTER IN LUAPULA IN LAST 5 YEARS THAN ANY OTHER PARTY IN THE RECENT PAST!
i quote from Wikipedia “Western Province is widely regarded as the least developed region of Zambia – for a number of reasons. However, in recent years the government has put some emphasis on developing the area through the Rural Electrification Project”.
So gents don’t just think when one area is not developed in Luapula that it is the Least developed province, if anything that is just a chiefdom.
Western province recently saw for the first time the tarred road which was constructed by PF, but Luapula province had roads from time immemorial so is the Hospitals and secondary schools. The Chief demanded a secondary school to easy the load on the already existing schools as the population has grown.
“Concerned Zambian who have been to all the ten provinces of Zambia”………. even…
Development should be seen and realized not to asked for by the chiefs. The problem is we concentrate only along the line of rail. Only President SATA had a vision for Zambia as a whole.
“…and if he does not see action leading the secondary school coming to his chiefdom, he will…”
I thought he would say …will ask Congo to annex his chiefdom to that country and avoid the need to have to lick Lungu’s @#$% for a secondary school.