Vice President, Inonge Wina, has said government is extremely concerned with the floods which have wreaked havoc on the crops and public infrastructure in Northern Province.
Mrs. Wina said government was initially hopeful that the northern part of the country would contribute to the forecast bumper harvest but it was regrettable that floods have destroyed the crops.
She added that it is sad that this is happening at a time the country is battling with another calamity, the outbreak of the coronavirus.
Mrs. Wina said this in Kasama today when she paid a courtesy call on Paramount Chief Chitimukulu of the Bemba people.
She said government was very concerned that it had to look for funds and other resources from outside the national budget to cushion the suffering of the affected people, not only in Northern Province but also in other parts of the country.
And the Vice President has donated boxes of assorted hygiene materials, which include hand sanitisers and soap, to Chitimukulu to help curb the spread of the coronavirus.
Meanwhile, Paramount Chief Chitimukulu has thanked government for the help it is rendering to flood victims in Northern Province.
Chief Chitimukulu recounted that the excessive rains took the region by surprised saying the similar season which experienced abnormal rainfall was in the year 1951.
“People had relaxed and never expected to have such type of a season with a prolonged rainfall and it has recurred as surprise,” he said.
The traditional leader noted that government, through the Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit (DMMU), has been distributing mealie meal to households which have been affected by the floods.
He said he is also soliciting for aid from other stakeholders in order to assist government in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
The chief sympathised that the government has been found in what he called a queer position as it has to solve the problems of the two natural disasters namely the floods and the Covid-19 pandemic at the same time.
The Vice President arrived this morning in Kasama to check on the extent of damage caused by excessive torrential rains which Northern Province has continued to experience this rain season.
She is accompanied by National Coordinator for DMMU, Chanda Kabwe and National DMMU Director, Charles Mang’wato among other officials from her office.
The floods, which have resulted from persistent torrential rains, have caused flooding in homesteads, crop fields and damaged public infrastructures such as schools, health facilities and roads among others.
Government is ONLY extremely concerned about their own pockets
Global warming is the next war the world will have to fight. Our VP is well aware of this and I think we need to heed her concerns. Kz
Grand ma Bo Inonge has decided to wake up from her hideout she is complaining about the rains but the same people are quite on the water levels of Kariba dam and load-shedding…if we had genuine leaders they would challenge ZESCO but they cant as they are part the problem.
Where are the Educated Zambians in all these disasters? Do they only see Doom and Gloom in these calamities? Don’t we have opportunities in every disaster? Every disaster is an opportunity to change the way we do things. We have 15 hours of loadshedding every day and yet we are blessed with floods. Just touch base with the Chinese to help create man-made rivers that channel water from Luapula river and Northern regions to the power generation facilities in the South. That way, we can have power 24/7 and Industries will be back to full production. Flooding can also be a thing of the past.
Gogo Wina, you have seen many floods in your life and only today you think government is concerned. Zambians do not expect that statement coming from a vice president. What you have done to alleviate the flooding in Zambia is what we want to hear. Do not tell us concerns or previous regimes because floods are under your watch. Say something meaningful to victims of the floods.
This so called vice president, she can’t just sit and wait this phase of corona virus passes, doesn’t she know that she is so vulnerable to corona virus due to her age!? Stay home Mama!
Mwine Mushi , How can you dig a canal from luapula to kariba. Even if you did that, taking that water to kariba wont fill up the lake, it will just contribute to a very large body of ground water. .Understand the water table. Kariba was just excavated to a certain level of groundwater, what you see in the lake is ground water not surface water.Even if you recharge the harvested water into the ground it may end up somewhere else probably in another country.
You only harvest from the flood by creating surface dams, which will act as reservoirs in drought, but again the challenge again will be location of these dams, since the bets points to locate such dams are in fact flooded now.placing it on any other place it will just dry as the flood subsides.
KZ there is no such a thing as global warming ,There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth.
Proper tourism, site seeing. A few weeks ago it was another guy doing the same, I really wonder what changes. Assuming these two tourist actions were not taken what was going to change or not going to change
Ghost dog, since you have become a mad scientist and to you carbon dioxide is beneficial, then when you are in hospital sick of corona there abroad in ICU, please make sure you ask for a ventilator that produces carbon dioxide into your body. Let’s see how that works for you. Crazy boy
After the outburst by goats in the opposition like james lukulu, the woman who is caring the vp has decided to pay a coutecycall to mwinelubemba kanabesa chitimukulu. Good move bamayo inonge wina
One like from me Kz, your comments make me laugh sometimes. But yeah, carbox dioxide does have its uses in the atmosphere actually. Consider that to have oxgen from plants, we need the plants to take in carbon dioxide.
Addtionally, the carbon dioxide and dust in the athmosphere affects the amount of rain in cities.
we thank the vice president for donation of Hygiene materials to help people that are in need of real help.
its good she did not just sit at home and wait for the storm to calm.
Enough of this great great grandmother in the edge of power. how can dis old woman be vice president?