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Don’t politicise the successes the Government has scored, Chief Chikwanda tells opposition

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File: First Lady Meeting Chief Chikwanda
File: First Lady Meeting Chief Chikwanda

Chief Chikwanda of the Bemba speaking people of Mpika District, Muchinga province has urged some opposition political parties to desist from politicising successes the Government has scored.

The traditional leader says it is disheartening to see some politicians down playing the massive infrastructure projects the Government has posted in the last three years.

Chief Chikwanda says it is not a matter of politicking all the time but to give credit where it is due and move forward.

The chief said this when health minister Dr. Chitalu Chilufya, Muchinga province Minister Malozo Sichone and Deputy speaker of the national assembly Mwimba Malama paid a courtesy call on him.

Dr. Chilufya was in Muchinga and Central provinces with some members of the management team at the Ministry of Health to assess the quality of health services being provided.

Chief Chikwanda who was elated by the unprecedented development projects being under taken in Muchinga and the country at large, said it was time some politicians swallowed their pride and throw their weight to the Government.

“We can’t have a situation where people can’t appreciate what is good in this country,” Chief Chikwanda said .

While in Mpika, Government upgraded Michael Chilufya Sata District Hospital to a general hospital.

Government handed over a utility 26 seater mini bus to Michael Chilufya Sata School of Nursing, 4 ambulances to Chalabesa, Nabwalya, Mfuwe and Katibunga health facilities.

Dr. Chilufya says the hand over and upgrade of the Hospital is in line with what President Edgar Lungu promised the people.

At Kabwe Central Hospital, Dr. Chilufya directed management at the facility to set up an emergency theatre next to the labour ward for easy access.

Dr. Chilufya says President Lungu is determined to see that no woman dies while giving life hence putting it impactful interventions.

The minister also inspected service provision in Mkushi and Serenje.

12 COMMENTS

  1. We will sort them out at the ballots.
    At least we can see where borrowed money is going.
    1year 8months down the line.

    Decision time.

  2. How can Opposition politicize government success? unless what the chief terms as government success is actually government failure.

  3. Aba Ba Chief naboo…THE PROBLEM IS THAT OUR COUNTRY HAS BEEN EATEN BY MEDIOCRITY SO EVERYTHING GOES WITHOUT ANALYSIS!! If someone puts up a shoddy structure resembling a store barn and calls it hospital and inflates the cost and pockets the money then it is “political” to tell them to use our national resources wisely? If you have a “hospital” without;medicine,motivated workforce,equipment then it is “political”to tell one in power to run health services better?? THESE ARE CHIEFS WHO FAIL TO UNDERSTAND THEIR ROLE TO LEAD THEIR PEOPLE PROPERLY AND BECOME RULING PARTY CADRES AND LOSE RESPECT AMONG THEIR SUBJECTS!!

  4. Increased fuel prices and electricity tariffs, unending load shedding, misuse of public resources, inflated pricing of infrastructure, political violence the list is long long long! This z what we the people Zambia are saying must be addressed, we are not going to eat roads or building no

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    • He certainly doesn’t deserve to be insulted. Many a chief would have said the same under the circumstances as a matter of principle

  6. This same Chitalu Chilufya was in Southern Province on Thursday and Friday. He never met any chief. On Saturday and Sunday he was in Muchinga, Nothern, and Central and he managed to organise to meet a chief. This is a stage managed speech by the chief.

  7. THIS KA CHIEF IS A PF CADRE,YOU WILL SINK WITH YOUR FELLOW CORRUPT CHARACTERS IN 2021. IS LOAD SHADING ,FUEL HIKES AND INCREASE IN ZESCO DEVELOPMENTS.

  8. It’s only the chief who can see all the projects once his eyes were cleared by the brown envelopes that the ministers brought with them. Otherwise all along he has been quiet.

  9. At Kabwe Central Hospital, Dr. Chilufya directed management at the facility to set up an emergency theatre next to the labour ward for easy access.

    This is total confusion. You mean a minister of health can just visit a health institution and orders them to set up a unit just like that? Has a he provided the funds for such an order?
    In over 40 yrs of existence of Kabwe General Hospital, did the Institutional Management not see the need to set up the emergency theatre next to the labour room? just asking.

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