The Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit has released 200 metric tons of relief maize to Luanshya district in response to the hunger situation in the district.
This came to light when Minister in the Office of the Vice President, Sylvia Chalikosa flagged off the relief distribution exercise today.
Ms. Chalikosa said government is aware of the hunger situation in the country as a result of the dry spells which are experienced in most parts of the country, and will ensure relief is distributed to all the affected areas.
She added that President Edgar Lungu does not want to see anyone dying of hunger and hence directed the DMMU to ensure that no one is left behind regardless of their political affiliation.
Ms. Chalikosa said the DMMU has since continued the distribution of additional relief to the areas that experienced dry spells in all parts of the country.
Meanwhile, acting Luanshya District Commissioner, Deoden Lupasha has thanked the government for quickly coming to the aid of the people.
Mr. Lupasha added that the relief has come at the right time.
Ms. Chalikosa however appealed to the community of Luanshya to ensure they complement government effort by ensuring that all drainages are unblocked, instead of waiting for DMMU to respond to such.
She added that everyone should participate in keeping Zambia clean and healthy, as demonstrated by President Lungu.
Ms. Chalikosa, in the company of DMMU National Coordinator Chanda Kabwe, are on the Copperbelt to check on the hunger situation and inspect various infrastructure damaged in Ndola, Kitwe, Luanshya and Lufwanyama districts.
These people have no shame indeed…how have we got to this stage next it will in Bahati!!
Even the hunger they are talking about is not now. People still have something to eat. Why the coincidence?
Luanshya district is not Roan and mpotis. Get your facts right. Same as mtendere is not lusaka city.
Such a respectable woman as Sylvia Chalikosa to be undressed by PF campaign team??
What an insult to her and other women.
Forcing her to distribute maize for PF campaign is equivalent to forcing her to breastfeed Mumbi Phiri’s children who is on podium of campaign.
Ba Sylvia humble leave those thugs.
Where is ECZ? This is what breeds tensions post elections
Foolish thinking. When did PF know there was hunger in Luanshya? Lungu is desperate
Oval Head, nowonder you have an oval head mushaba mano. Roan Constituency is in Luanshya District on the Copperbelt and there are no reports of hunger that needs relief maize there. There are rural areas that needs relief food urgently and not Luanshya!!
The leader says there will be no importation of caders from lusaka and other town into Roan. But has not said anything about voter corruption as shown in the distribution of relief maize. It’s a shame to even get the maize. Luansya received above rainfall last year and this year. Where is the hunger from ba
Donne?
By this time people should be feeding from last year’s produces. Effects of this farming season should be felt later in the year because farmers especially on the Copperbelt haven’t started harvesting maize because the rains stopped just a few days ago. Why are they panicking now?
This is clearly vote buying
Really? Is this not a violation of our electoral code of conduct? Luanshya was spared by the current drought and so is among the least towns needing food relief. It is so obvious to see that this is being done because there is a by-election in Luanshya. Please spare the people from this kind of politics.
The fooooools at Concourt will not agree with you when PF appeals High Court decision
They will defend themselves by saying it wasn’t PF that delivered the stuff. It was the government but you see the common man doesn’t differentiate between government and the ruling party
ECZ is dead
CRIMINALS THESE PF ARE!! What dry spell was in Luanshya to start distributing maize there and this early!? As @2 chivindi has observed,Luanshya and whole CB received above normal rainfall so what dry spell are they talking about.Areas with real dry spell are being left with starvation,they take maize to buy votes!!
People are suffering in Southern and Western Provinces. Does this DMMU have priorities? Is this Vice President normal? Southern Province never receives enough rainfall every year. This time around even Western is bad. Our brothers and sisters in these provinces have been perpetual hunger. Luanshya is never a hungry area. This is a shame. Zambians, wake up!
President Lungu is high priest of corruption. If he was a genuine leader he wouldn’t appear to know people in Luanshya have to eat only during byelection. For real Lungu is scared of Kambwili the 200 metric tones of maize proves what Kambwili says. The toothless ECZ is watching the corruption from PF without atopping the evil act. Shame!!
Bribing has started and ECZ is silent.
This is what Pilato was saying on that phone-in …these thugs need you to poor and hungry so you are scrambling for crumbs like you are in a disaster zone…you are too hungry to quizz them
Yaba..
When we tell you lungu is a corrupt shameless theif , some of you think we just don’t like the guy ?
Taking the release 200 metric tons of relief maize to Luanshya district as a coincidence is tantamount to believing that the universe came into existence by chance
I am speechless
Come on PF, let those people starve to death, who cares? Certainly not trib.als. Certainly not trib.al Gay Jay, appearing at press conferences as Trib.al Hacks leader of trib.als, famous for corript running mates, trib.al dictator, and known on LT as trib.al Gay Jay.
This is the thinking of lowlife people. I think you do not deserve to be with people. You right place is the forest where you cannot mingle with other animal species.
Let him live with kaindes cows in the bush….
Mune, please show me a news report that said there was hunger in Luanshya. That is why I consider you brain dead because even straightforward things you have to show logic that is beyond stup!d. Why do you insist on insulting your creator by only using a tiny percent of your brain power? Awe tata mulichipuba.
To those who have more will be added and to those that go against Gods Word of Romans 13, even the little they have will be taken away.
President Lungu needs to fire two thirds of his ministers, starting with Kampyongo and Jean Kapata. Plus whoever in the office of the vise president that thought this was normal. This is fraudulent to the last power. ACC should investigate the office of the vice president now. This is corruption, had the been sending maize to Choma I would have been in agreement.
He can’t fire them because he is the one who sends them to misbehave
But where do these people get the guts to be so shameless?Remember always,this is Sata’s true legacy,i dont care about Lungu,he just rode on the back of Sata…
Comment:good campaign strategy!
Ine napapa sana
Umm,this is surely disgusting
Could be disgusting, if it was not said by trib.als… unfortunately.
… I mean, if trib.al Hacks is so full of contradictions including seeing dictatorship in others but not himself, what rights have trib.als to complain about anything done by PF?
Just be normal for once and and admit that there is a problem here instead of blaming HH
Luanshya is not another cheap town one can buy, remember Pwele was the first UNIP MP after it lost power. Chiluba was more popular at that time than ECL.
When we tell you lungu is the the most corrupt leader this is what we mean….one side he says fighting corruption the other side he is operating in the gray areas of corruption.
All pronouncements on fighting corruption are to hoodwink donner countries
All lungus pronouncements on fights PF violence are fake cover because Prime tv plastered images of PF violence around the globe.
If lungu could legalise corruption, he will
But this it was supposed to be done after elections,what are the ECZ doing so this it means even opposition are capable to do that.
Relief food has been distributed to affected areas, southern province, my mother was given 50kgs of maize. don’t be jelos imwe bantu.
Icipowe pa Luanshya ka? This is really, truly interesting. Where did this come from as we have not seen any reports so far…
Politics teyabana,says tayali
Nangu tapasoswa. These people have no shame indeed. Give money to the farmes. If you think it’s so early to grow maize. Grow yours and give many tonnes to any one as more as you can. Shame on you.