Republican President Edgar Lungu has conferred Chipata district with the Status of a City effective tomorrow Saturday 25th FEBRUARY 2017.
Speaking at a colourful ceremony held at the new Civic Centre in Chipata on Friday, the President stated that the district of Chipata had met all the requirements of a City such as having a population of more than 200,000 revealing that Chipata had a population of 500 000 as at last population census.
Chipata also met the requirement of a well defined central business district, an improved road infrastructure such as a good road network, facilities such as banks and insurance houses, schools , hospitals and shopping malls.
He also stated that Chipata had facilities such as hotels and lodges that met international standard such as the 3* protea hotels.
President Lungu stated that With the power vested in him under section 3 and 4 of the local government act cap 281 of the laws of Zambia, he therefore CONFERED Chipata district to a City from Saturday the 25th of February 2017.
Meanwhile, President Edgar Lungu has left for Chipata, Eastern province on a two day working visit.
And President Lungu has challenged economists to interpret the policy monitoring rate released by the Bank of Zambia. President Lungu said it is up to the economists to translate the statistics released by the Central bank so that ordinary Zambians can understand what is happening in the economy.
The Bank of Zambia on Wednesday set at 14 percent the Monetary Policy rate which ‘moral sway’ on commercial lending rates.
However, commercial banks are lending at rates as high as 44 percent. The head of state was seen off at City Airport by cabinet ministers and senior members of the ruling Patriotic Front.
Meanwhile Eastern Province Permanent Secretary Chanda Kasolo has told ZNBC News that the President will be in Chipata where he is expected to declare Chipata a City.
There after the President will travel to Mutenguleni to pay a courtesy on Paramount Chief Mpezeni. On Saturday the President will officiate at the Ncwala Ceremony in Chipata’s Mutenguleni area.
Because he was from there. Out of his depth.
Chipata people are backwards
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I guess even Mbeba have been elevated to City Rats. Well done, Lungu!
Zambia twasebana! Ifi fibantu fyakula myona ku Chipata are not worth this ?It is Kasama that deserves to be called a city. Ba Mambala ba Nyama Soya are now going to parade no tu mibende ne fimabele fyakopoka!! Atase! Ba ka teka apa pena mwalufyanya mwe!!!
but why not KABWE which has been there as developed more than chipata ba LUNGU think before u act
I normally don’t agree with your posts @Mushota but I am leaning towards your first sentence. There is too much focus on Chipata, Eastern province. How many trips is that since he became President in 2015?
Chipata a City! What a joke.
2021 – Fred M’membe for President
I am going to Ncuala for only one reason…….. Breasts.!!!
Mushota you are always backwards and a retard
Tu vyalana ngako sewo ku m’mawa. Lomba mweo uko ku a bemba, mukonda tyala kusebela.
That is great news!
What warrants him to say Chipata qualifies to be a City other than his origins?
It would have been more appropriate for him to declare Solwezi a city than Chipata!
Solwezi may not have the infrastructure but with booming mines it is developing fast despite deliberate frustrations by PF leadership lopsidedly taking road & other infrastructure developments to nonproductive provinces.
God is always wise, planted minerals in certain areas so that no matter how much you hate such areas you will still flock there for greener pastures – Kanshanshi, Lumwana & now Kalumbila.
What is there in Chipata other than Mbebas & Mwenye shops?
It’s now ‘developmental tribalism’.
Are such things as conferring city status still done in the 21st century? This was 50s and 60s stuff. Nowadays all abodes are cities just check our neighbours they never have big events at which they name Hwange a city Polokwane a city or Francis town a city. It’s just a waste of time
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Kabwe, Luanshya, Choma, Mazabuka, Mufulira or Kafue deserved this upgrading not Chipata. For example, if we talk about economic development, the towns I have mentioned above contribute more to the national GDP than Chipata. Aha, Lungu and RB, they can drive one crazy!
That’s good chagwa lungu boi.
City of poachers! Arrest all of them during their so called NJUALA ceremony. Where do the get all those skins they use to cover their BUTTS???
Whatever RB says his chola boy does…city status means increased expenditure for GRZ; you will have a Mayor, positions will be upgraded…meanwhile you dont have medicine, mortuary facilities, beds and doctors ..etc at St Francis hospital in Katete.
Think Think!!
@ Mushota learn to appreciate what the president has done. There’s nothing like bcoz he hails from there. I’m not from Chipata neither am I from Eastern province but the Easterners in general are not backwards. Its u who is backwards.
Lungu is not even from Chipata. His family are from Petauke but he is a Kopala boy through and through.
Lungu isn’t from Chipata mwebantu. He is a pure Chimwemwe boy
Thank you Mr Chagwa, mwana wakumawa. EASTERNER for CHAGWA!
Thank you for the City status.
Keep building the economy.
Next it will be Nyimba Petuake and Katete…more of a thank you by createing GRZ for PF cadres.
*….GRZ jobs….
So what will be the benefits of the new status?
Simple ! You pay twice the price for roasted mice!!!
@ Yambayamba!
Kikikikikikii Pwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Am off to my local pub! You made my day!
Wow, I am must be really, really, really getting on some people’s nerves or doing something amazing on LT for some !d1ots to want to steal my identity. Who is this other freak calling themselves “Yambayamba”??? There has been, and will always be, one “TRUE” Yambayamba on LT and my Flag will always be of either CANADA or the USA. So ignore this fake impostor!
By the way, Good fore Chipata. More than two hundred thousand (200,000) people (in fact 500,000) big enough population by any standard to qualify as a City. In America, I have seen places with only 2000 or less people and they are called cities. Now it is time for Chipita City official to work extra hard and make Chipata deserving of its new status.
Very true Yambayamba wherever people have a civic centre is a city in the US
Ati kupusa chi yamba squared
Kabwe, Chingola and Luanshya are far much better looking and have by far better infrastructure that Chipata.
Bufi
dont lie, you dont know what yu r talking about
Luanshya does not have even a half STAR HOTEL, so leave it out. Even kabwe i don’t know whether apart from the legendary former CHITWE CHA NSOFU ( Elephant’s head hotel), there is any 3* eating or sleeping place. Chingola, yes protea is there.
Tebufi. Let’s just look at population. Except for Luanshya all copperbelt towns have more than 200000 people.
@6 Barabas , that is what I am wondering too.. Like stated @Lovemore, going by the criteria used then may be all Copperbelt towns should be cities.
Exactly! I always thought a city was a town with a Cathedral Lol
Ba Lungu, what is the Criteria for City Status? ‘Ah it is 30 Taverns and half a dozen Brothels’!
A city is a large and permanent human settlement.[1][2] Although there is no agreement on how a city is distinguished from a town in general English language meanings, many cities have a particular administrative, legal, or historical status based on local law.
Cities generally have complex systems for sanitation, utilities, land usage, housing, and transportation. The concentration of development greatly facilitates interaction between people and businesses, sometimes benefiting both parties in the process, but it also presents challenges to managing urban growth.[3]
A big city or metropolis usually has associated suburbs and exurbs. Such cities are usually associated with metropolitan areas and urban areas, creating numerous business commuters traveling to urban centers for…
Next it will be Kasama Mongu and Mansa to be declared cities just before 2021 general elections to woo voters. He will also try his luck at Choma in the southern province.
This small little town Chipata without proper planning conferred a city status – what a joke – just a political gimmick.
‘Beautified’ by vendors littered all over. With more taxis than commutors. No parks nor any landscapping to add beauty. A single fire tender, one mall, no cinema theatre, no swimming pool, Non functional airport and rsil track etc etc. Lacking most of the amneties to turn a locality into a city.
WELCOME TO ‘SEETEE’ OF CHIPATA
there is a fire tender, there is atleast a mall, more coming, more cinema theatre coming and there is are swimming pools. dou you know how many malls ndola and kitwe had before being called cities?? kkkkkkk, CHIPATA IS A CITY, UKANE OLO UVOMELE, NIZAKO IZO
The idea of Chipata becoming started was actually broached during the Mwanawasa administration but that fact will be conveniently ignored by those who want to peddle the notion of tribalism and regionalism on the part of Edgar and will not see the irony of describing the whole populace of eastern province as ‘backward’.
I agree with Mphendula Kayaula. It seems people have not been following the issue about the declaration of Chipata as a City. It started during Mwanawasa’s reign.
There is a lot of focus on Eastern province, in particular Chipata. It seems to be benefitting the most from Presidential attention. He has been to EP the most times since he was elected President in 2015. Am sure, if we checked on the distribution of fertiliser inputs, road construction, infrastructure development, am sure we will find that that province is number one. Is this a case of wako ni wako?
Boza iwe, go to Mongu and see how the township roads have been beautifully done! And am not talking about that ka master piece Mongu-Kalabo Road awe, but township roads…muletandala bane!
There after the President will travel to Mutenguleni to pay a courtesy on Paramount Chief Mpezeni. There after the president will travel to Israel to pay a courtesy on Benjamin Netanhyahu. There after the president will travel to Sudan to pay a courtesy on Albashir. There after the president will travel to Singapore to strengthen ties with that country (medical check-up).There after the president will travel to Saudi-Arabia to see how Zambia can start importing cheap oil from that country.There after the president will travel to South Africa to meet with that country’s president to seek first hand information on the latest xenophobic attacks on foreigners and how the same can be avoided in Zambia.On his return,the president will travel to the central province on a three day tour.OMG !!!
I beg to differ wth the president on this one. Status misplaced.
Chimbwi no plan! He’s always campaigning for votes. He’s focused on winning 2021 because he didn’t win the previous vote and he’s conscious is eating him up and that’s the real reason he won’t sit at state house and work, he knows he doesn’t belong in that office.
All well and good……but the nation wants you to say something about the ongoing Malawi maize scandal in which your GRZ is being implicated? Why the silence ?
From your silence one can only gather you are involved in that corruption.
TRIBALISM
That is the place where the Malawian Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development, George Chaponda fully watered the Zambian perennial s.ex garden Dorious CSlitoris leaving it floaded and the man had to jump into a Nalikwanda to sail away from the floads back into Malawi. Now the seed of this wicked adulterous fornication is the award of a city status to the “nailing” venue. So if any city town wants a city status, you know what to do. Chimbwili, get some viagra to help you get it up and find a place kwaMwansabombwe where you can plough the Dorious CSlitoris one over over! Then fast fast Chagwa will confer city status on Mansa and Mwansabombwe. But nomba chabipa ifi fine ubwamba bobe tabwima!
Such a disgraceful Lozi chap…or are you a kaMbunda wamazhi? Do you get an orgasm when you insult huh?
Even settlements are cities in that God forsaken country.
Anyway, when Sata was creating a Bisa province and taking two universities there, Bembas/Bisas said its ok. At least Chagwa has good reasons to confer this status on Chipata and I for once agree with him fully. My only worry is the number of bakoswe that will lose their lives unnecessarily as abena Chipata celebrate fwemba fimo fimo and chew on the rats!
Do you declare it a city without development? There is nothing that we in Chipata for it to be called a city. Why do you get instructions from RB? Useless president!
In Zambia even a pit latrine can be awarded 5 star hotel status…simply look at this bum Edgar he has no money and he is upgrading to City status…town planning is none existent.
”Meanwhile, President Edgar Lungu has left for Chipata, Eastern province on a two day working visit.”
But isn’t he in Chipata already…but ba LT muma nisokoneza ine!
Crazy journalists
A city is defined as any large human settlement .This means large refugee camps like Zaatari in Jordan,Dadaab in Kenya and Oncupinar in Turkey are cities too – nothing about roads,banks and shopping malls.
Hazaluza Hagain, because he is not electable! When will these internet haters finally come to get it?
Chipata City Council now must be having committee meetings frequent and work hand in hand with Ministry of Lands so that people with land can quickly get title deeds then borrow money from the Banks build nice looking lodges,private clinics,shops,houses,malls,factories,schools etc so that Chipata can truly attain the city status. Because by now Chipata doesn’t have a grave yard no Fire sub station no community hall no recreation center etc. Wake up Director planning,Enginering, Commette Chairpersons, Mayor and Town Clerk.
That does not happen in the Capital and you are wishfullly thinking for it to happen in Chipata a PF stronghold.
Wake up!!
MVELA you are spote on !!!! Your thinking is way too positive …..this guy is joke and has nothing better to do .
Good development. We always start from somewhere.
But Echi Echi already declared Dundumwezi as a City ! what more Chipata?
Chipata is dusty, disorganized and full of stench and rotting trash.And like blogger Enka says above even a large tented settlement can be termed a city.
Comment:iam not a suporter of mr lungu but to say the truth chipata was suppose to become a city many years ago even before pf came into power. i remember very well that mwanawasa talked about this when he was a live. those who have been there will agree with me that it qualify to be a city. in fact it is far ahead of other towns and provincial headquaeters such as choma,ka
bwe,kasama,mongu,chinsali and mansa. a political move? yes but i dont think this can help pfools to bounce back after
2021 even if they raise all the districts in zambia to city status. because going forward things will be very tough for these guys.
This status means more money allocation for Chipata. Which is good, allocations equivalent to cities like Ndola and or Lusaka. Make good use of the money Guys, this is the chance to develop further. By the power vested in me by my birth right, and nationality, I hereby confer the name CHAGWA to CHANYAMUKA – CHAIMILILA – CHANBULULUKA. Thankyou.
My ‘beef’ is not whether Chipata qualifies to be a city. It is with a President who is forever on the road, visiting this and that, commissioning a police station structure, politicking about people who haven’t recognised him, discussing individuals and saying nothing about the country’s direction (social, economic policies – and according the press to ask questions, especially in the light of the continued debilitating load shedding, agricultural fiasco, corruption allegations, etc.) When does he actually work?
If he stay in the house/office at plot 1, you are the same people who will start rumors that he can’t travel because he is on his death bed. WTF is wrong with you morons!
Are such things as conferring city status still done in the 21st century? This was 50s and 60s stuff. Nowadays all abodes are cities just check our neighbours they never have big events at which they name Hwange a city or Francis town a city. It’s just a waste of time
Ba LT what is to reveal? To expose something that noone knew before. Lungu therefore didn’t reveal Chipata’s 500,000 population
Good, no more eating rodents now ! You are city dwellers o
Ok, this is very good development
Yambayamba, we are referring to the rate of the travels – most of which have no tangible outcomes or concerned with the real underlying issues. Is it too much to ask that a President, once in a while sits down and shows direction in terms of policy? And takes questions. Just one example; It is unimaginable that a country can be run with such magnitude of load shedding as currently prevails and politicians are not held accountable. Excuse after excuse and lie after lie. Mediocrity ‘buries’ potential and becomes the norm.
Legacy? We wait and see the new city.
Chipata a city. Far too many jokes in Zambia. With only one two- kilometre road/street, Umodzi highway stretching from Lundazi junction to Chadiza junction, that for Lungu constitutes bench mark for declaration of a village to a city!
Comment:visit chipata before u comment. most of you think that chipata is village no wonder you are not understanding y lungu. declared chipata a city . chipata is bigger than most of the towns you are mentioning.The days are gone when cities used to be along the line of rail.
Guys lets not be jealous of chipata becoming a citi it is not the first and not the last one there are many more twons that will become cities .jealus is poison .it one zambia one nation .
Comment: @ chitutuma…doest matter the stretch of the town street.wat qualified chipata to be a citie are the utilitie,population and others it atained..don’t be ignorant…kitwe,livingstone and ndola dint have shoping malls including lsk but the were called cities. In addition the other towns mention like kabwe don’t even have a 1 star hotel. Kasama,mansa,mongu have no universities and shoping malls…incomparisons chipata has all that which is either one or all of them missing in the town mentioned
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