Mwense residents from all walks of life have protested the pending transfer of Mwense town Council Secretary Betty Liswaniso.
The residents expressed their displeasure when they stormed Mwense District Commissioner Geoffrey Chipampata’s office yesterday.
Speaking on behalf of others when he presented the petition, James Mutapa said the residents are against the pending transfer of the town Council Secretary.
Mr. Mutapa said the district has been lagging behind in terms of development for so long because of frequent transfers of people who are development oriented.
He added that if such trends continue, the district will remain un-developed while other areas receive a fair share of development.
The visibly annoyed residents petitioned the Local Government Service Commission to rescind its decision and give the Council Secretary some time to help develop the district.
They said the tendency will discourage other hard working civil servants from executing their duties professionally for fear of being transferred from the district.
The residents charged that the district has started witnessing some development during her tenure which they never experienced during the past administrators and wondered why the commission wants to transfer her.
They added that if the commission fails to rescind its decision, they are ready to take their protest to another level.
But Mwense District Commissioner explained that transferring workers is done administratively, adding that government workers are there to provide quality services to the public and that they are transferred where their services are needed.
Mr. Chipampata however received the petition and promised to forward it to the relevant authorities.
The vote of confidence, which is rare nowadays, in the council secretary is loud enough…..a listening government would rescind its decision…
My people you have done me proud by showing confidence in our sister. When other people are going tribal the people of Mwense have chosen to take the path of objectivity which is so rare in our days in Zambia. I just love that spirit
Note how we welcome people from other provinces. …only performance is important not origins. My friend working in a certain province everyday prays for a transfer to another province. He cannot drink freely in bars because of the comments such as “foreigner etc”. Please keep that person there because the concerns are genuine. Last May I was in Mwense District and people were more proud of her than Dr Wanchinga MP for Mambilima of Mwense.
Ndanje Khakis: The problem may lie with your friend. He has failed to live with fellow citizens from another tribe. He has failed to cope with diversity. And he probably makes no effort to learn a few words in the local language because he considers it beneath his dignity due to what KK’s govt did in the late 1960s when it introduced language discrimination by taking some languages to schools outside their native provinces. This kind of discrimination leads to other forms of discrimination. There’s no province or district in Zambia where only people native to the area live alone because govt, for example, is everywhere and it recruits from everywhere.
United we stand ,, dividend we fall ,,One Zambia One national
Its rare to hear people spraking positive about their leader. Please that leader is liked and the general populous in that province wants yo stay a liitle bit longer to develop the area. All they are asking is consistence and it is imperative that the authority allows Ms Liswaniso to work with the people and accomplish what she has started thereafter she could be movedvto another area.Mama Betty Liswaniso keep up the same spirit the people you serve are proud of you, you are an example of true leadership Zambia needs. God bless you and do the best you can woman of integrity.
I know the Woman, she is more than equal to the task. Please ! Local government commission, may you rescind your decision and Let
Mama Bety develop the place.
That is the goodness of “Thieves!” What a noble cause for the people of Luapula. This is the Zambia I envision not that which is propagated by HH, Spakata and JayJay.
Nelson Mandela was jailed by racists and after that they started telling young whites in SA that he was evil. Before he was given a chance to exercise political power, no one new what Mandela was made of. Thank goodness a chance came and we all saw how magnanimous he was even to his jailers. HH has never exercised political power in govt and no one knows what he will be like if given a chance. Mandela had no political experience in govt before he became president. But he surprised those who had political experience. Does this lesson mean a thing?
Ms Liswaniso must have done a good job. It doesn’t end there. She must also have respected local cultural sensitivities and did not go there with imperial attitudes of imposing her own mother tongue. Where she saw weaknesses she did not condemn an entire tribe but made allowances for individual weakness. This is not what happens everywhere. We have seen civil servants with very unhelpful attitudes. I know Zambia very well and I am quite current in my reading about challenges posed by failure to respect diversity and how you build a nation out people from different backgrounds.
Chanchima, There’s a huge difference between Mandela and HH. Whites created stories about Mandela while HH has created a bad story about HH.
Ndanje Khakis: I have not compared Mandela to HH; you did. Mandela’s political and statecraft skills are now known because he had a chance at governing. Before that those skills were unknown. What was known was what his jailers and enemies were saying about him which was entirely untrue. HH has not held any office in government so we all do not know what he is capable of. But what we know is what his enemies are saying about HH and not what he is capable of in government. Mandela is a known quantity while HH is unknown quantity. It ends there. The lesson here is the frailty of human “knowledge” based solely on value judgement. Better to conduct an experiment and prove something true or false so that you speak with authority.
This is an example of a place in the country which does not look at tribe.
Imagine people are up in arms with authorities to not transfer a Lozi person and yet political leaders in comfortable residential ares in Lusaka with mansions make it look likea Lozi and Bemba speaking people cannot function for the development of the country.
Viva Mwense people!
Viva Ms Liswaniso!
Abash tribalism!
Abash political Mastutbation!
Abash political manipulation of youth!
Ms Liswaniso must have done a good job. It doesn’t end there. She must also have respected local cultural sensitivities and did not go there with imperial attitudes of imposing her own mother tongue. Where she saw weaknesses she did not condemn an entire tribe but made allowances for individual weakness. This is not what happens everywhere. We have seen civil servants with very unhelpful attitudes. I know Zambia very well and I am quite current in my reading about challenges posed by failure to respect diversity and how you build a nation out people from different backgrounds.
HH practiced his political power in Mongu. Watch the video. Smart people have seen him practice political power daily supported by his Horganization and cadres. Birds of the same feathers flock together.
Sharon: Your postings are not based on reasoned argument but petty hatred for the man. You are like Fred M’membe who labelled Southern province as a Bantustan. Often people like you end up eating their own words. If SP was a Bantustan when M’membe said so in 2011, it must still be a Bantustan now but don’t count on M’membe to say it today. He has changed the subject. PF lied their way to office but they will not lie their way to economic management success.
LISWANISO IS A LOZI WHAT IS SHE DOING IN MWENSE, PLEASE LET HER BE TRANSFERED TO MONGU OR SOUTHERN PROVINCE