HH Attributes Mumbwa flash flood to poor planing of human settlements

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   • What does he mean by “We shall prioritise planning to avoid such calamities which result in casualties”, Will he re-build the dams that are upstream and exchange them with the residential areas that are downstream? I just want to know the alternative plans before I vote.

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2. Well done HH, keep the good work.

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   • Yeah he must keep that ‘good’ work. We don’t need it

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3. This is a sinipet of what is to come. This council is upnd run

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   • Mpundu Mwelwa so what? Do the town planners m, engineers etc there belong to UPND?

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   • Mpundu Mwelwa ikalafye chimbwi

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4. Youths 2021??

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5. Mumbwa district council is run by UPND does HH knows this can someone explain to him that flash floods are natural no matter your planning you can’t know the amount of precipitation that will fall.but anyway it’s in his nature to blame everyone and everything in Zambia

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   • Christopher Phiri leadership and professionals must learn from these incidences and plan better in future. But some of these less privileged areas development is implemented without a proper EIA….

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   • Christopher Phiri the system of opposing anything and everything even if somebody has a point is making african countries poor. The planning of settlements in each and every district is done by the planning officers and civil engineers for that district who are civil servants. Mayors and councillors are not involved in settlement planning because they are not experts. Planning of settlements falls under the office of the district planner, who is an expert together with some engineers who work for that council and are civil servants.

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   • Christopher Phiri Educate us Boss based on your knowledge of Environmental Planning and impact assessments. Some Natural occurrences’impacts can be avoided or minimised. HH went on the ground to see for himself what really happened and he issued his statement from an informed position, have you been there yourself or maybe you stay there yourself for you to say that he always wants to blame everyone and everything in Zambia?. The UPND you’re saying run Mumbwa Council are of course the Council Chairperson and the Councilors who might not have the knowledge of Environmental Planning and Management but the real culprits here are the government employees working for the Council. I understand that in councils we have Environmental Planners employed specifically to plan for this kind of things.

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   • Christopher Phiri that’s true even in England they do occur but maybe he saw no drainages,since he was on site.

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   • Christopher Phiri HH is a nincompoop who just yaps anyhow

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   • His people run the council there,….why does he always take delight in calamities

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   • Kennedy Bwalya your ka father is a nincompoop

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6. True this. What intrigues me about Zambia is how MPs stop working soon after they’ve been elected to parliament. This is why the executive becomes despotic without even trying.

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7. Can someone help me, is it true that this council is run by UPND?

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8. Everytime condemning….see who you’re condemning now, your own party. Otherwise, I commend you for the donations whether from the party or from yourself. Well done.

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9. They sale plots in river basins that is PF for you.

   Poor planning!

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10. Gracious Hamatala (UPND) is the chairperson of this council. So Mr Always right (HH) please show cause why you should be voted in as head of state if your job is just to talk and you don’t care about doing the right thing. If you are failing to organise a simple council how will you run a country?

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11. He will fix it…abena Sammy

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12. Planning of settlements is done by planning department headed by district planner not by Mayors/council chairmen/councillors. Who runs the council PF or UPND got nothing to do with the planning because they are not experts.

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13. Well done HH ?

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14. There are always people living downstream of everywhere. HH knows this because his ancestral village in Bweengwa is downstream of the Itezhi tezhi dam. There are people living downstream the Itezhi tezhi dam, the Kariba dam, the Mwomboshi dam, etc. Spillway allows dams to get rid of excess water but they’re not forever. They wear out and need regular inspection.

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15. Mr HH on this one you can’t blame
    PF for this natural calamity.All you
    Do is supplement government help.can you give exact quantity
    Of items donated.

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16. HH is an opportunist, you are the leader of the largest opposition party with a proper platform to steer this country in the right direction through parliament but you choose to use social media to always make it look like you are the expert in everything. You seem to know more about the settlement planning in Mumbwa, did you debate or oppose them in parliament? HH is going to be a ruthless dictator if allowed in office because he is self centred, a bit like Trump. Lusaka gets flush floods every year, imagine if HH donated to the people of mumbwa by sponsoring a company that would develop flood defenses and channel excess water to reservoirs? He would win my vote without reservations but as things stands, he is only sugar-coating things to get to state house and fulfill his ambition of…

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17. Being president full stop. Not interested in working with others to make this country better. Only thinks of himself and the his money.

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18. He’s mr right, Mr know it all, that’s why ine naiwe mwandi ni kaya. I mean you the party president

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19. All along he never mentioned but now after seeing the calamity. Let’s just accept that our IQ based education system is a disaster. We have myopic intellectuals in the country. Most of our so called professionals are academicians. They are non-practical professionals. They see things from book point of view

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20. The council in this area is run by upnd. Uyu chIc0l0r has no idea. Hh is just a chancer who is very unpredictably boring. It’s the second day of 2021 and this hyena hh is already being a massive d.l.c.k

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21. This HH is a real guy. This is Mwansa Mwansa from Nkolemfumu in Kasama. I will not settle for less. We want HH this year, twachula pafula

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22. As a professional Planner, I agree with this opinion by HH. It is very true that the current infrastructure, not only in Mumbwa, but in all towns is being done without much study or “Design”. This opinion was also expressed by the president of the Zambia Institute of Architects, who had clearly stated that some of the infrastructure is being implemented in the areas which were reserved as “sink or drainage”spaces.
    Who is to blame? I remember the late Mwanawasa defying all professional advice and putting up the Lusaka Multi Facility Economic Zone( MFEZ) in an area which is basically a water recharge zone for the Lusaka underground water system, and the Kafue Steel against all professional and ZEMA rejection.
    Unlike the opinion @Geoffrey Nkhoma, zambian professionlas are not only…

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23. Mwandi ubukopa tefintu. His party runs the council. Sometimes you need to keep quiet.,???????

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24. As for me and my family, we are voting for HH, just like the rest of the families in Zambia. PF expired

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25. The challenge is he thinks everything that happens is a faulty of someone….

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26. That’s what visionary Leaders do. HH sacrificed his New Year Celebrations to be grieve with People in Mumbwa who are victims of Floods. HH should be given a chance to Govern Zambia. In 5 years HH will transform Zambia and turnaround the Economy. Bally we are with u all the way. We can’t wait 4 the 12th August 2021 to kickckout Lungu and Corrupt PF thugs out of Power.

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27. From the information am two dams bust that caused all this water to flood so that was the cause not rains and drainages

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28. Master of calamlties he is at it again!.in 2017, nakonde bound,Zampost bus killed over 30 people,HH blamed the PF lead government as being responsible.He does this instinctively without much reason, in order to gain cheap political capital.How many times have Mumbwa flood?just like the uncle of the late nsama nsama,HH needs to be stopped from using funerals and other calamities to further his political wishes which Zambians can not buy.He knows that he can’t beat PF unprecedented developmental record.

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29. HH the doomsday celebrator

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30. thought the dam burst

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31. On the Lusaka multifacility economic zone, I actually wrote to one of Levy Mwanawasa’s ministers to suggest that it was not necessary because Zambia already had an industrial belt in Ndola which needed to be resuscitated. Besides that, I argued that government should not be seen to discriminate btwn companies in economic zones and those outside it. This lobbying was spurned.

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32. There’s nothing that he doesn’t attribute to others. …his thinking is that he is the only perfect human being

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33. This was a bad rain and floods all over should be worked upon for the people of mumbwa good drainage system would do

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34. For him, everything is a faulty of someone…even natural disasters

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    • Lisa Liywali just imagine that fault finder

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35. ” Ackim Michelo”: I know HH well from the time he was not in politics. He has never claimed perfection. In fact u can give him a telling off and he would still listen. He loves to work in teams. I don’t see him anymore because he’s busy with his politics. He has weaknesses like all of us but the one u hv mentioned is not one of them.

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36. So, PF is abdicating it’s responsibility over national development to opposition party. Kikikikikiki – PF failure in governance is blaming those outside government

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37. People who always think that they are educated with pomposity are not performers like the Supreme leader HH of the UPND… Always condemning others…

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38. This Dam has been in existence before Halitosis assumed party leadership and today this is when he is opening his mouth even when the MP, councilors and chairperson are from his shonongo party. learn to think before you open your mouth bwana.

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39. A question for ECZ, those that have lost NRCs and Voters cards due to the floods are going to be helped in what way to replace them???

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40. Free masonry involves donations in times of calamities like floods. I rest my case here.

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