The Lusaka Water Supply and Sanitation Company has refuted claims alleging that one of its major water sources was suspected to have been poisoned.
This following the investigation which Lusaka Water Supply and Sanitation Company instituted after an alarming message which circulated on social media and so far, nothing has been established to confirm the rumour.
Company Public Relations Officer Nshamba Muzungu says the Company water surveillance and quality assurance team have intensified the routine water quality monitoring of all water sources and distribution centres and so far, nothing above the normal levels of the usual water quality parameters has been established to indicate any traces of poisoning of the water as alleged in the anonymous message.
However, Mr Muzungu said the Company will continue undertaking water quality surveillance on a daily basis.
He said Water quality control measures have also been intensified to ensure that the water supplied meets the quality standards as required by the regulators, National Water and Sanitation Council.
Mr Muzungu said in addition, key water installations such as water sources, treatment plants, distribution centres are always under 24 hour security guard.
He said the motive behind the circulation of such a message on social media therefore is to cause panic among members of the public.
Mr Muzungu said the Water Utility firm has since engaged the police and ZICTA to bring the perpetrators to book.
“As we deliver on the mandate to supply water and provide sanitation services, our first obligation is to ensure that the water supplied is of the highest quality. Should there be anything which is ill-disposed to that, our first call to duty is to protect the interest of the consumers”, he added.
The mass hysteria continues, the media are equally to blame. Now people will stop drinkingwater. This is now too much!
Lungu has failed Zambia! “A fish starts smelling from the head.”
Fellow Zambians there is no gassing and there is no poisoning of water.
Police and army please round up all the ring leaders who have been attacking innocent suspects of this fake gassing which is not even happening.
Fellow Zambians report all ring leaders of these criminal instant justice gangs to the police immediately in order to save lives.
Do the right thing don’t be cheated by politicians or fake news from online media. Don’t attack your fellow man on fake suspicions. God bless you and lets bring back the peace to our motherland, We only have one Zambia, whether you are UPND, PF, whether you are Lozi, Bemba, Tonga or Ngoni let’s come together as one!
ONE ZAMBIA ONE NATION
Thank you for the official communication. We have the information so now we move on to other important things
2020vision, I agree with you when you sa y tha t the media is to blame, though I would say partly, from the point of view that in these sensitive times they should be careful how they report and should try not to be alarmist and worsen the panic and hysteria. However, when you say there is no gassing, the police themselves are saying they have apprehended suspects, so we cannot rule out gassing aas much as contamination of water is probably false news.
My fellow country men…..the current situation has runaway from PF.
Even if this mass hysteria dies away , I predict riots because of the underlying fault lines which are economic.
No matter what force pf and lungu employ, if they will not fix the economy, expect dark times ahead….
Lusaka Water & Sewage Co was part and parcel of the deadly cholera epidemic that killed almost 100 people.Let’s get real and accept negligence.
@sistersofmercy thanks for the comment I’m not a Police officer nor am I privy to any sensitive information, I simply go by common sense. Applying the exact same principle of ,”innocent until proven guilty”, as well as to have every claim backed by solid evidence and proof especially on such a sensitive subject as this, until a Court or Parliamentary appointed lab/testing facilty within or outside Zambia is designated to test whatever evidence the Police have to determine if indeed there has been gassing then the safest and most reasonable approach to reduce this mass hysteria which I’m sure you would agree outweighs the alledged gassing incidents by way of death count, property damage and its tarnish to national security is to simply say there is no confirmed gassing. Let’s focus on…
Ctn… Let’s focus on dealing with these these criminal instant justice gangs first.
KZ and the other PF officials and cadres are chief suspects in the gassing issue. So for now you should just keep quiet because whatever you are posting will be used against you. Who are you you to suggest that we move on and pretend to the painful reality of gassing?
Monde please go and read the statement by the IG of police and stop living in ignorance