Police have assured people wishing to attend the Kuomboka Ceremony this weekend in Mongu in Western Province that the situation will be calm and peaceful as usual.
Western Province Police Chief Fabian Katiba told Journalists at a press briefing in Mongu today that security measures have been put in place and those wishing to attend the ceremony will be protected by Police.
ZANIS reports that Mr. Katiba said all Zambian citizens and foreign tourists should have freedom of movement, and those causing fear on innocent people would be visited by the law.
The Police Chief reassured people travelling to the Province that the duty of police was to protect, and no officer would forment violence at the ceremony.
Mr. Katiba added that those without intentions to attend the ceremony should remain at their homes than going to the ceremony to cause violence.
He said no activities or meetings would be held in the district on the day of the ceremony.
More than six hundred police officers have been deployed to Western Province to maintain peace and order.
The ceremony which is an annnual ceremony celebrated by the Lozi speaking people with the Litunga moving from the flooded plains to higher land takes place tommorrow and is expected to be graced by Vice President George Kunda.
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Hope so we need peace
600 with rubber bullets. Hope there will be no shooting and amputations. the President is afraid of attending what more ordinary citizen?
Kunda who sided with the Lozi killers is officiating their ceremony,this is a big temptation for lozis. No wonder such a big number of police or lozi killers.
Rupiah cant attend.He is scared of Mututwa.
If you are popular why all this fuss and tension? any vote for HH is a vote for RB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Honestly,how do you despatch more than 600 police officers to a town like mongu with a population of 180,000 ?We shall have more police than Tourist.Mongu residents are scared to see police uniforms following the recent shootings on innocent citizens.Please free the Mongu land!we are not used to celebrate Kuomboka under the guidance of police short button
#2 if u think de cops can use ruber bulets to armed people with pangas,then u are joking coz cops have gone to mongu 2 maintain law and order with live bullets to at law breakers.
Yes after shooting some already, if I was there I was going to stay in doors the carders are very dangerous
Dont tak kaponyaz confused pipo to disturbe my fellow pipo in western iwe chi SATA magogo ed for sure will watch u.HHHHHHHHHHHHHHH TAHAKONO
There is no need of causing mayhem in Western Province.The best method the people of western province can do,is to cast a vote on a party that they think can bring development to the province.Why should blood be shed to people who are all equally suffering like you do.We are all facing great poverty which is not worth writing home about.My brothers and sisters in western province should realise that life is hide countrywide.The only people who are enjoying are only those who are rubbing shoulders with RB.This is because with them corruption is the order of the day.Kuomboka should be a ceremony for all of us so that we forget the cruelty of MMD.We need to go and celebrate so that we erase bad thoughts about the diabolical MMD.
Nyambe hornestly you can’t open your eyes mwana wa yesu. How can start saying don’t go with kaponyas. Where those people short by police kaponyas. If you don’t like as an individual its better you keep quiet.
Western for HH, zambia forward, nipakwanja chabe! viva HH
RB aletina uncle mututwa mututwa kekekekekekekeke pepepepepepepepepe
What a shame to the Lozis, is it Kuomboka or Kufuhela. Yesterday on Thursday we saw Lubosi going to Lealui aned Saturday back to Limulunga.The Kuomboka has become a business venture to govt and himself. I wonder why Govt sending over 600 police officers to Mongu.We have been peaceful since from the time God gave us this land,Lifasi labondatalun, mo lupepezwi, mo luhulezwi. Shame on you who were on radio liseli. haluna kuya kwateni, you police officers and MMD cadres shall attend it.Mukaswaba
Well, if any of those tribalistic Lozi folks become funny, shoot a few and the rest will learn to behave !
#10, Chitumbuwa, you are a liar. There are more cars on Zambian roads than there have ever been since independence. Are they being driven by those rubbing shoulders with Rupia. I have talked to many of my brothers and sisters from Western Province and I can assure you it will not matter how many lies Mmembe will tell about Rupia, the people of Western Province will not vote for Sata. They are very thoughtful people and will not bring Sata, Kambwili and Nsanda into power.
Ba Maureen 4sure yiu dont even have land, Our country Baotseland is rich and cool. I think you are not even a christian. Shamee on the police who are acting unprofessionaly. There behaviour is uncivilised characters
Ala bee maiche sana. Am bad.
The current litunga is very selfish and self centred he does not even tour the provinnce to see his people. He is by far not having the qualities of the litunga , coz of this I 4 one wont attend this Kuomboka. Just as well this monarch state issue will never happen coz some litungas are bad hearted to the extent of asking for state police to go and kill your own people. One zambia One nation.
#19 Nalu, Royalty is primitivity in this era.
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assurance based on what?
The only one thing that buffles and annoys is the dullness of my fellow country men and women. From the your comments, it is clear that our poverty is due to our own poor thinking and mocrity. The few of you that have posted comments are already fighting each other, then how do you expect the country to be united and develop. lets us just accept that we are educated ilitrates and still primitity. Can you imagine if this situation happened in the U.S or some europian country how they would handle it? Bush men are even better than you *****s coz they are peacefull, not trible and not selfish.
So the Kuomboka is all about tourism now according to George. I have always thought these so-called traditional ceremonies are really business ventures and have now become political platforms. Iam yet to be convinced chiefdoms or royalties as they are now being called add any value in this era.
LT in your own estimation of decency is the #15 by Ba Maureen posting okay by your moral standards? Are you okay with such comments? Lusaka Times you should be deleting tribal or racist comments. I wonder why you are so comfortable with tribalism and racism. Shame on you! On civilised websites tribal and racist comments are not encouraged. You lot only seem to be concerned with so called ‘insults’. Anyway it is too much to expect from bigots!
‘sheep sheep come home’ scenario mwebantu!
It is sad wen I look at the way we ave treated the lozis frankly speaking even in our inner feeling we know that we will never vote for them to rule this country and now we strategising pretending as if we are with them shame zambians.
# 15 ciMaureen, Just what the hell did Lozis ever do to you to deserve such evil comments? Did one of them defile your pregnant mother in her excrement canal and infected her with a vile neurological STD which traveled through the uterus walls into your s.t.upi.d gurumuthu head whence this vengeful bigotry ooozing from all manner of “whores” on your body against all of them?
I thank all the patriotic well meangful Lozi people who did not waste their transport money to go and watch Kuomboka on last saturday. May God bless you for what you did. As the per custom and tradition, there is no way when you are mourning then you celebrate, we are still mourining Barotse heros and activitis.At least is badly attended by the heavy Blue and green police officers.