Two hundred more households in Overpill and part of Zambia Townships in Choma have been affected following a heavy pour that was experienced on Monday bringing the total number of families to 300.
A check in Overspill, found the water levels still high and the pit latrines flooded raising fears of a possible disease outbreak.
Zambia National Service (ZNS) were by press time found at the Masuku Bridge trying to unblock the drainage so that there could be a free flow of water.
Southern region Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit (DMMU) coordinator Edwin Petelli said they would engage the Choma Municipal Council (CMC) to find a solution to prevent the flooding of Over Spill and Zambia Townships.
Mr Petelli said consultations with the Council would begin immediately on what type of infrastructure was needed in the area.
“We will begin consultations with the council now.This area is a dambo and these houses were built on natural drainage where water used to flow.
“In the past we didn’t experience flooding due to the scarce rainfall pattern,” he said.
Area Councillor Navy Moonga expressed worry at the flooding of the pit latrines and called for quick interventions.
Mr Moonga said there was need to also open up other out lets for water to flow without any difficulties.
“This is a succession type of problem and requires urgent intervention failure to which it will result in disease out breaks,” he said.
THANKS GOOD GOD FOR THE RAINS. PEOPLE PRAYED FOR THE RAINS AND YOU HAVE ANSWERED THEM FAIRLY. PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE TRUSTED THAT GOD WAS GOING TO BLESS THEM WITH GENEROUS DOWN POURS AND PREPARED FOR THE RAIN.
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We have rains then chimunthu chichedwesa fertiliser na seed. I feel like chewing somebody
Get free fertilizer from the overflowing latrines.
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Ati we we have we have a working government kwisa? ? Flood defences should have been in place knowing very well that there is a risk of flooding. As long as it’s not eastern province the rat doesn’t care
Your vile nature exposes you ig..norance and lack of intelligence. Zambia is a nation building and growing. UPND and PF thugs need to work together for the benefit of all Zambians.
Since UPND leaders vowed never to work with the government of the day, I wonder how the DMMU and other wings of government will solve this problem without participation of local leadership. I wonder whether area MP Cirnellius is around? Can he defy HH for the sake of the poor choma peasants. Of course not, as we all know HH is more important than peasants.
go and sleep with that kaka in your head. The government of zambia is not PF! so why should they seek HH’s permission to go help poor zambians? it is that mentality of yours which is taking this country backwards. Because southern did not vote for your useless party does not mean that southerners are not paying taxes. The very fact that southern contributes to the coffers which your lazy president is abusing, means that they deserve the same level of support as any corner of the country. you silly tribalist rat.
Cholera is on the way. Why did the GRZ condon pit latrines in our urban areas?
Why did they let people build their houses in drainage area? We will see the kind of solutions they will come up with to resolve this problem.
@5.1 NEZ, Mr Nez don’t put words in my mouth.
– government seeking HH permission to help poor Zambians? Southerners not paying taxes? Tribalist?
I never said those things in my post. All I said was that government, any government UNIP, MMD, PF ( we have yet to see a UPND government if ever there will be one in our life time) works through people, the local leadership, local councillors, area MP etc in order to deliver a service. You NEZ was one of the cadres who supported HH’s ban on his (UPND) officials from cooperating with government in any way because it is a PF government (well it is a PF government because all governments take the shape of the victorious party. We told you that it was unwise to do so, now are you swallowing your own vomit after proving us the “we” right? That…
Contd …By the way the tribalist is you Mr NEZ, you see the floods reported happen to be in choma and you are already thinking tribalist and assuming that all the affected residents are tonga. And obviously we can see that to you GBM your vice president or running mate remains a bemba monkey even though you don’t say it publicly.
Much as I don’t agree with some of the things you have said I do agree that a section of a country can operate independent of the government. No matter how much you may detest Lungu, he’s president of the whole Zambia and one has no but work with him on behalf of our people. Continued pretence that HH is president of the Republic will just affect the same people we claim to represent adversely. Time to move on until August 2021.
Government should just go ahead and assist those in trouble even without involving the careless UPND who think by working with the current GRZ they reduce themselves to nothings when they are indeed already. When shall we change and start seeing the sun instead of shadows?
Let these 1diots perish. I pray for more torrential rain to last even 2months non stop. Kikikiki that’s good. Let them all drawn.
Indeed your head is oval HH.
Please for God seek people who are affected does not belong to one political party. Let them be helped by the government. BOMA is for the all people.
More rains please!