Zambia Livingstone Coordinator for justice John Mwewa has appealed to President Rupiah Banda to intervene in the suspension of the Livingstone Council.
In an interview with ZANIS in Livingstone Mr. Mwewa said that since the Minister of local government and member of parliament for Livingstone Sakwiba Sikota have not done much in sorting out the suspension of the council there is need for the President to intervene in the matter.
Mr. Mwewa said that integrity and morality is very important in the conduct of civic leaders for development to be attained.
He said that the electorate should look at people’s character when electing its civic leaders to prevent what had transpired at the Livingstone city council.
The Caritas official said that the continued suspension of the council has broken the bridge between people and councilors who are the drivers for development at the wards and constituency level.
He said that a report should be published of the findings of the cause to the suspension of the council because not all councilors were wrong and have continued to be dented by there suspension.
Mr. Mwewa also challenged the Council management in Livingstone to come up with a modern market and intercity bus terminus.
He said that he has observed that some former councilors have big pieces of land which was not supposed to be disposed off to individuals but was supposed to be reserved for markets and bus stations which were going to benefit the Livingstone community.
Mr. Mwewa also observed that the current Constituency office for Kazungula which is at the border is far from the reach of people hence need to reallocate it to a central position so that it carters adequately for people of the constituency.
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