President Hakainde Hichilema has assured traditional leaders that the new administration is working on modalities of improving their welfare to restore the chief’s integrity.
President Hichilema says in this regard the government will construct four-bedroomed private houses for Chiefs countrywide.
President Hichilema was speaking when he met Southern Province traditional leaders at Katimba Primary school, in Monze yesterday when he arrived in the district to attend a field day on Climate Smart Agriculture and Early Drought recovery intervention.
The Head of State added that the government will also ensure transport is also provided to all the chiefs who did not benefit from the previous distribution of vehicles under the former regime.
“We will standardise motor vehicles for chiefs across the country, because this will make it possible for traditional leaders to feel that they are all equal and that they perform similar roles in their chiefdoms irrespective of their locality in the country,” he said.
“In situations where a Chief dies on the throne, there is a need for the surviving royal family to continue living in the provided structure away from the official Palace which will also be built to chiefs that never benefited,” he stated.
Speaking earlier Chief Monze of the Tonga speaking people of Monze, thanked President Hichilema for working hard to unify the country since assuming office.
“Chief are more united now under your leadership and all regions in the country are now united and working for the common purpose,” Chief Monze noted.
Southern Province Council of Chiefs Secretary, Chief Chona, requested President Hichilema and his Government to consider constructing dams and drinking troughs for both animal and human needs.
But in response, President Hichilema told the Chiefs that the increased constituency development fund CDF is meant to address such challenges among others.
Any money spent on those useless chiefs is WASTED
SHOCKING THEY SEERVE NO PUPOSE APART FROM A CERIMONIOUS ROLE IN THEIR AREA
AND THIS KNEELING ? WHF
Why should the President be senting on a leather chair when everyone is on ordinary small chairs or kneeling ….UPND govt presentation is important you are simply going back to the PF days of Lazy Lungu.
And where are the desks in that classroom? Have they not recieved CDF?
He took away the ministry that we created specifically for tradition and chiefs. Trust him at your own risk. This is a crook you are dealing with
Did anyone take away their dignity? If anything the chiefs have brought shame upon themselves. PC Chitimukulu had chased Kambwili and Hakainde and now Hakainde is president Chitimukulu starts to call the opposition as pack of dogs just impress Hakainde. Shame
WHAT INTEGITARY DO THE CHIEFS HAVE ?
THEY FOLLOW THE PAYMASTER WHOEVER IT IS WITHOUT SHAME
THIS IS NONSENSE
THEY DONT NEED A MINISTRY AS WAS SUGGESTED A WASTE OF FUNDS
Hey Guys, Politics under PF was really just that-Politics. Everything got political,GRZ workers,Bus stations, Contracts, Businesses, including Chiefs-they couldnt get funded if they did not endorse PF. So, what one of the chiefs is saying here of unity,really makes sense. As anyone can see now,Chiefs are going back to their real duties which are Chiefdoms and management of that and not management of political campaigns. You can see the difference of utterances between the meeting with Chief Chitimukulu and Chief Monze. Chitimukulu jst abandoned & insulted the PF(which he was the largest benefiting chief for 7yrs,second by the Eastern one-Look at the GRZ car that was stolen from him?) Non of other chiefs have such cars donated by GRZ accept for Chief Mukuni who is self Funded(the guy…
All this HH is doing is osmetic and vote buying. Chiefs in Northern Rhodesia run rural local government successfully though poolry enumerated. They had authority for education, the treasury and customary judicial jurisdiction. Unfortunately when Independence came the baby was thrown with the bath water.
Some one is yet to come to restore rural local government and give dignity to chiefs.
Your school carricula have omitted this in you education.
The current … 1. Chief Chitimukulu of Munchinga, 2. Chief Mpenzeni of Eastern Province, 3. Chief Mukuni of Southern Province, 4. Chief Lewanika of Western Province are most attention seekers, shady, biased chiefs. And I base this statement on facts & history.
Don’t build them houses. Let their kingdoms fundraise the money and build them palaces. They have so much land they can use to farm and make money very easily from farm produce. How can we talk about being a self-reliant nation and developing when these chiefs are not in forefront of inspiring their subjects and leading by example? They want to live on handouts. KK built Co-orporatives to sustain them and they failed to run them.
Where as,Chief Monze spoke of national unity at individual and Chiefs level. So as you can see here, some are real chiefs for there people and others are just mere political party stoogies. Saying things just to appease the current GRZ for a loaf of bread. This is bad cos such CHiefs dont really care about their own people at all cos once himself is fed then fuuuck the rest. Chief Chitimukulu also told HH yesterday that the roads are bad so he needed to fly?How can a chief ever drm of such day dreams when majority of his people dont even have land? It speaks volumes of such Chiefs,Not even the Litungas(World known chiefs) have a helicopter ,they use a canoed boat to cross over to the other side of the river when flooding starts.
09@ Monze Sec School 1st Alumnus
10@ INDEPENDENT OBERSER
I fully abide by your assertions and agree. This is total nonsense coming from our president….. These chiefs are lazy and out of touch with reality…….
Dont build them houses. Like someone has mentioned above. Let the subjects raise the money.
I don’t see no CDF in that picture. Who the fvck is MP for that empoverished school?
How?
@Independent Observer is right. The next President(as HH is not all that capable) should legislate for all citizens to invest in their chiefdoms of origin and pay local taxes into the local treasuries before buying property out of their areas of origin. In this way virtual villages will arise and support chiefdoms.
Please address Chief Lewanika of Western Province as a king show some respect …when you are direspected of someone cslls you out ..you call your LT bootlickers, Chola boys and hangons to hack into LT and block us.
LT ALSO ISNT EVEN A 4th RATED NEWS MEDIA
THE CONTENT HALF THE TIME IS IRRELIVANT
POST FROM A VILLAGE SOMEWHERE ?
Tikki move to watchdog. No one is holding you. Fuseke!
Please address Lewanika of Western Province as a king show some respect …when you are direspected or someone calls you out ..you call your LT bootlickers, Chola boys and hangons on your payroll to hack into LT and block us or make it hard to submit comments.
Please stop your cadres from insulting Chiefs Chikanta and Mwine Lubemba.
Chief Monze has been appealing for a house since the tenure of RB, I’d be happy to see him considered quickly
Our tax isntmeant forchiefs. Ask their subjects to build these things for them
@Tarino Orange,Our Litunga is proudly a Litunga!! Just as The Kazembe is Mwata.This King nonsense came about when the Litunga asked the British what they wanted from him,using the vernacular: “kingi”. They got the wrong end of the stick.The rest is history. They even gave him a Khigthood complete with uniform.
Shame. Shame. It is Kaizar Zulu again. That corrupt brutal creature with no manners
Why not arrest him for attempt murders and land grabbing.