FORMER Lusaka Mayor, Daniel Chisenga has urged his successor Wilson Kalumba to take President Lungu’s observation that Lusaka City Council (LCC), had gone to sleep to stop cholera as a wakeup call.
Mr Chisenga said it was unfortunate that LCC- and the Ministry of Local Government and Housing, had to wait for the President to do their work.
“As ex-Mayor of Lusaka we did what we could to halt cholera cases. I also recall recently how some PF cadres took it upon themselves to clean some parts of the city on their own initiative.
“So for me I think LCC and the Ministry of Local Government and Housing should have done this before the President came in,” Mr. Chisenga said in an interview.
He advised Mr Kalumba to engage Lusaka residents on keeping the city clean and stressed the need for other local authorities in Zambia to learn lessons from the LCC case and not fold their arms in comfort.
He however appealed to Lusaka residents not to judge Mr Kalumba as he had only served a year.
The former Lusaka Mayor also praised President Lungu for his bold decision to involve defence forces with LCC and the Ministry of Health to halt cholera, which has so far claimed 41 lives since it broke out on October 6, 2017.
Inspecting the cleaning exercise in the central business district of Lusaka, President Lungu said the LCC and the Ministry of Local Government and Housing had gone to sleep as they allowed markets and other trading areas to continue operating in filthy surroundings.
He said the Local authority had allowed sanitary infrastructure to be overwhelmed by unplanned structures despite government spending massive sums of money on upgrading infrastructure to modern standards.
The picture explains why lusaka is dirty.
They are birds of the same feather. It is the reason they are together. They are PF. That includes the so called “president Edgar Lungu.”
The Lusaka Mayor represents all what is wrong with PF starting with Edgar Lungu.The president has entrenched a culture where all decisions are made from State House…and we all know the caliber there…Kaizer Zulu, Amos Chanda and Freedom Sikazwe…honestly, what do you expect?
Wilson Kalumba is my relation.
He is disliked because of his tribe ( well like me).
He is a hard worker
Thanks
BB2014.2016
Mushota, what is the difference between thinking you are intelligent and being intelligent? And by the way, cholera has no tribe it will claim any one in it’s way including your relative/s.
Ichoso ba Kamba, it’s not even harvesting time.
SURELY, CAN ONE FIGHT CHOLERA IN HIS DREAMS?
@Mushota I will reserve my comment as it is a New Year and I expect you to use and observe my rules that I previously supplied to you! If in doubt, please let me know so that I can post them here for you. In the interest of not mocking your sleepy faced relation, I will write to him directly!
Vendors were allowed to stay by Sata therefore, its the president who has the power to remove them not the mayor
Who confirms that he had been sleeping? Is it not his illegitimate Boss?
One year is long enough for someone to come up with a plan to keep the city clean. Seems he’s been asleep the past one year instead. This incompetent mayor deserves to be blamed and fired,. Secondly, there’s no good reason for giving Lungu any credit, after 41 lives have been needlessly lost under his watch. So both Lungu and Kalumba need to take the full blame for turning Lusaka into a garbage dump.
The Mayor is asleep. But so is the President.
In this country we are very good at managing disasters instead of preventing them. We wait for calamity to strike so that we can ‘work’ and take the credit when people have lost loved ones. Guys we need to be serious, the disaster management unit should be the disaster prevention unit and working the drainage’s and installing piped water with the army in June not until ba maake mwana looses her child in December.
We never learn.
The mayor has no vision for Lusaka
What can Lusaka citizens do to remove this mayor? We can not wait for the next elections with such visibly incompetent people. Is the lion stature still at Ndola city council? This has to go as well.
You are just dirty people and like living in dirty environment. After 53 years of independence Zambian politics can never get rid of cholera in Lusaka and unashamedly, perpetually do politic over dirt (that’s what cholera is). After all, these political cadres entrusted with managing Lusaka all look dirty and live in dirty surroundings.
As long as dirty cadres are made to manage Lusaka as a capital city, cholera will be part of Zambian culture.
The former and the current are one and the same people. When money is flowing they forget about the work which is supposed to be the generator of the money. The current one even came up with the idea of paying levy by phone ownership and could not see the build up of garbage along Lumumba island.
IT SEEMS THESE ARE BIG OPPORTUNITIES FOR CORRUPTION. A FEW WEEKS AGO THE MAYOR WAS BUSY TALKING ABOUT ESTABLISHING A RADIO STATION WHEN HE CAN’T DEAL WITH THE CORE ISSUES OF THE COUNCIL. BWAFYA
If Lungu was serious, he could have fired this sleepy lazy mayor when this picture came out and did the rounds or he would have put pressure on him to resign, after all he is the president of PF.
In civilised societies this guy would have resigned in shame on his own after this picture came out.
What a country this is! I couldn’t tell you how much money from Scandinavia and other EU countries and the US has gone to improving sanitation and water quality in this country. Having a cholera outbreak should really annoy these donors to withdraw their aid because it just ends up in these thieves bottomless pockets.
Lusaka residents voted for the party and left the likes of Fisho Mwale and Maureen Mwanawasa
Kitwe may have a similar problem soon. It’s just a matter of time. Chisokone market especially in the perimeter roads has heaps of smelly garbage. I haven’t been inside the market but this can also be a danger. The mayor and his team need to do something before it’s too late.
Wake-up the president and the mayor will start trotting around.
Terrible!
I bet the mayor is asleep due to hangover, after a drinking bout with the president the night before. Or will you accuse the president of innocence in this matter?
Zambia the real african even sweeping at your own yard you need president intervention
Cholera is a Bantu traditional ceremony held every year in Lusaka from October to February.
Yaba???
Where is the useless Kitwe Mayor Christopher Kang’ombe who defended his Lusaka counterpart Wilson Kalumba when he come under fire from Kusaka residents over his perceived under performance.
Mr Kang’ombe who doubles as Local Government Association of Zambia President said the association is concerned with criticism on social media directed at Mr. Kalumba on various developmental proposals and decisions of the council in the capital city.
“LGAZ wishes to appeal to the members of the public and residents of Lusaka that the council makes decisions through recommendations from sub-committes to the full council meeting. Each committee is composed of a minimum of four councillors, technocrats from city stakeholders and chief officers from the council management,” he said.
Sata would have…
Continued
Stata would have cleared this lot yesterday, masters, master mayuve chabe.
Firstly, what are the sources of revenue for LCC?? If LCC collected more than they spend, the city would be cleaner. Secondly, the culture of having political party cadres in councils started when?? This started with councils absorbing UNIP cadres first, FTJ tried to clean it up then realised he needed this culture to further his political ambitions, Levy, RB, Sata followed suit. This in iteself has crippled the LCCs ability to be effective.
Thirdly, Wilson Kalumba has pushed for the creation of municipalities. Can this work?? If these municipal councils employ professionals to run them effectively and stand up to political manipulation, they will work. Otherwise, under the current system, bring Maureen Mwanawasa, upnd, Fisho or anyone else-SAME RESULT!!!
You can try to pass on the blame however you want but the fact that this PF government has spent and put us into billions of dollars of debt and over looked the cleanliness of our surroundings says it all……the cleanliness of our sorroundings should have been priority number one ……
Lesson: Never vote on partisan lines again! Scrutinise the caliber and character of candidates. This underscores the importance of social contracts. We have nothing to hold these guys against. We made our bed. Let us enjoy it! Vote wisely next time and defend your votes!
Management Boards in cities can definitely work.Garnaton in Kitwe was such until UNIP destroyed it.The mayors can’t do anything unless he is supported by both ruling party and opposition parties, otherwise, street vending will never end.What good things would fisho mwale do.I was shocked when the late Sata ordered that that street vendors should be left free to conduct their business in the streets who was I shocked?The man cleaned Lusaka when he was appointed senior DG for Lusaka District.He knew the opposition was going to use it against him politically.So we need all political parties, the ruling and opposition should be committed to having one voice on street vending.The shops have been inconvenienced, but they are told to pay taxes and ground rates
I am impressed. You certainly know your history of Kitwe. In those days, Garneton had a management board and Chibuluma was part of Kitwe then, and it also had a management board. Ndola had Twapia and Luanshya had Fisenge.
I understand the name, Garneton, derives from a retired expatriate miner, Peter Garnett, who was the first settler in the area.
Sadly, the older generation like me are fading away with all this knowledge.
Its pathetic that it should take the whole president to instruct on how to combat Chorela, which is diseases of the filthy and unhygienic conditions. That it occurs every rainy season signifies failure and breakdown in the enforcement by laws and regulations. Its a reflection of the calibre of leadership and denotes a low regard for welfare and sanitation such a leadership has for its people! The King Rat oversees a filthy nation, to enact a law that encourages vending en mass when facilities to support cleanliness is asking for all the diseases associated with dirt. Its time to act and repeal the retrogressive populist law!
It is true that this dirtiness never existed under Kaunda. It happens when society has no way to measure progress or decline. You stop the first person who sets up the first street selling post. If you wait until there are 100 you will need an army. Besides, at 100, they become a voting block to which every politician will pander to in order to get elected. Don’t let illegal individuals get away with anything. They will grow to become a force to recon with in the future.
The culture of no accountability is the root of all that is wrong with Zambia….from corruption to filth to medicracy , no one is accountable for anything……all they do is think steal and corruption and tenders 24/7 And the buck stops at the corrupt lazy theif in state house feet……
Mubusheni uyo twafwa na cholera
Sleeping beauty kikikikikikiki
UPND dislikes people because of where they are from! It is not a secret! Mushota, the PhD holders, says it all! Tribal politics!
Mr. Mayor please, next time don’t sleep on duty! You know you are surrounded by UPND cadres! One of them took this photo. They want a talking point! Tribal!
Hehehehe hehehe Sharon ……
We are all to blame.
We should have advised the Mayor and put pressure on him to effect change in Lusaka.
We are so narrow minded and forgetful. The Mayor tried to deal with the vendor menace but Lusaka Province Minister interfered and stopped him.
Soweto Market is the power base of PF youths who collect money daily, from time to time the Council has tried to bring order to Soweto but the cadres who mint thousands and a Mafia like hold have resisted.
Lusaka mayor is a misplaced officer. He is not that material to Make Lusaka a real city. Just for his information, Lusaka is the dirtiest city in Zambia. Lusaka has a small population has compared to many cities in Africa. This fact makes your job easier bwana.just like Zambia in general, it is a manageable population.
Where is Japhen Mwakalombe?
In administration there are two words which are very important:-AUTHORITY AND RESPONSIBILITY. You can delegate authority but not responsibility. Everybody in government and government agencies work on behalf of the president. He has delegated the authority to work on his behalf but he is still responsible for whatever happens because he is the overall supervisor. So if the council and the ministry went to sleep, it means the supervisor was also sleeping otherwise the situation could not have been as it is to day where the army had to be drafted in because the situation got out of hand.