By Tovin Ngombe
Chief Sinazongwe has expressed concern that the Fisheries department in the district has no single boat to monitor bad fishing methods on lake Kariba..Speaking at the first ever graduation ceremony for coxswains in Sinazongwe District since it was conducted about 10 years ago the Chief said it was unfortunate that the fisheries department was borrowing boats to conduct its training. He said the Fisheries Training Institute which was in full operational in 1960s was in a dilapidated state.“Where are the boats for fisheries? They have no single boat, the infrastructure to the institution is in shambles, but we have people calling themselves, Director of what, Director Fisheries, and Director of Marine when things are bad here,” Chief said. He bemoaned that it was wrong for money to return back to the government treasury when the Fisheries Institute in the District was in a dilapidated state.
“The money meant for fisheries was returned back instead of being used to improve the Training institute I urge you directors to give room to your officers to apply for this money,” The chief said. The chief also expressed happiness that government has released the need to improve the Fisheries Training Institute in the district because it was ‘dead.’ Fisheries Department Director Charles Maguswi said the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries has started the process of acquiring materials to improve the institution. Mr. Maguswi said the training was conducted to improve the safety owing to numerous reports of accidents on water. He said Sinazongwe Fisheries training centre was meant to benefit even the private sector but the dilapidated infrastructure made them to fail to release their targets. The 15 graduating Coxwains under Fisheries who underwent a three months training course were awarded with certificates and they were from from Southern, Lusaka, Western, Central, North-Western, Luapula, and Northern Province.
Mwanawasa and Mulongoti, let you be warned that Mathani belongs to the prisons and jail the same way is Chiluba.Businessmen like Mathani can not survive on clean deals but only through lobbying the govt and laundering dirty money. Chiluba learn’t a hard way..and soon it will be another presidency, and we hope Mr President you don’t find yourself in the same boat like chiluba. Slowly but sure you are losing your dignity and leverage of fighting corruption by associating with vultures and thugs.
being a Sinazongwean, i share similar sentments with my Chief! I must stress the fact it is great news to hear that the Government is now realising the great potential the district has in as far as one of the national economical factor is concerned! Come-on Zambia invest more on the district and surely the benefits from the harvest thereof will never be overemphasised!