Former Church of God regional Overseer, Bishop John Mambo, says there is a need for political leaders to start mobilizing people to grow more food so that Zambia could come out of the food crisis. He said there is need for government to devise an effective mechanism that will help in controlling the prices of staple foods even in the face of high inflation in the country.
Bishop Mambo told ZANIS in an interview in Lusaka today that government must look at ways of heavily subsidizing the farming inputs as a unique way of addressing the soaring prices of essential foodstuffs in Zambia.
Bishop Mambo, who is also Chikondi Foundation President, expressed concern at the insistence by some political parties and organisations to hold countrywide demonstrations saying protests will not achieve anything tangible to change the state of the economy.He said the people of Zambia were already facing many hardships which required solutions, therefore, threatening the peace, love and unity that exists in Zambia was a situation that must avoided at all costs.
Bishop Mambo said the soaring food prices were a global problem which had also affected Zambia as a player in the world economy. He said his organisation would continue advocating for a special meeting between government, the opposition, civil society organisations, non-governmental organisations and the church to look at the problems affecting the nation.
He has since appealed to government and the opposition political parties to meet and discuss matters of national concern.
And Bishop Mambo has advised government not to extend the process of the National Constitution Conference (NCC) after its mandate comes to an end.
Bishop Mambo, who is a former Willa Mung’omba Constitutional Review commissioner, told ZANIS that calls to extend the NCC process were uncalled for since Zambians were eagerly waiting to have a new constitution.
He said there was no need to extend the NCC process as government was spending huge resources that could be channeled to other national development programmes.
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We cant.We depend on sugar daddy’s handouts bishop! ;;)
Wow! Sarah you are #2!
they should go ahead with thire demostration since its theire right to do so.
I should have been #1 Baby C, its just that my brain is as slow as a snail today.
I understand…hangover ka!
I thought someone had put a cork in Mambo’s yapper
Indeed we should grow more food. Govt should stop this nonsense of accepting sacks of mealie meal from other countries, let them be given seeds instead.A bag of mealie meal will finish within a week or two seeds will provide food for a long time to come
Iam great and you my dear? Thanks so much you have really helped me you guys.I promise you guys my first salary will go to you and God.
No BaBy C and Sarah Jones lets play a fair game I have been waiting to be number 1 or 2 mwasenda yonse sure.I will organise a demo Kaa.
Sarah Jones.
Am signing off now! I ve been summoned by Mum and Dad.
Take care of yourself dear and say hi to bena Sweet thung, Sony Eric, ba moze and the others in case they show up. :x;;)
Matworld and Sarah jones
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Oh! God not again Baby C waya.Is it possible that I can talk to you parents bakubweshe? Ba sarah jones you have just come so dont leave.
baMambo so they removed the stopper from your mouth. :-@
Yeller. Give vegetables to Chipolopolo!!!
I’m cooking for my hubby now
Let me take a walk Iam bored.See you soon
where is everyone kanshi. namuya mu kunwa?
Hi Sarah Jones, hope you have finished cooking for your hubby. I have just reported for work.. :):-?8-}8-}8-}:>:>:>:>
BABY C AND SARAH JONES GROW UP.ACT LIKE MARRIED WOMEN.
please can someone tell me results..zambia/angola?
There is a lot irrelevancies on this blog people like Baby C, Sara Jones, Cutey, MatWorld – whatever, are all full of irrelevancies and they cann’t articulate any topical issues. Please stop boring everyone and les have innovative contributions here relating to the story.
#21 Zambia has beaten Angola by 2 to 1.
#20 Witness
How should married women behave? Maybe today we can have alangizi on the blog.
Cutey.
Working on Sarturday? ah well sometimes you can’t help it with some jobs that call you in on saturday. Am just bored.
#22, Ba Mponda Matiki, Sorry if we are boring you, but there is nothing stimulating on the blog hence all the irrelivancies you can see. Bring on hot and interesting topics.. :d/:-?:)>-l-)l-)l-)l-)l-)[-o<[-o<[-o<
This is the kind of thinking that we should looking at. It is time that govt pays attention to food security and provide for the people once for all. it is also we the people that can make a difference for our selves. This Banda doesn’t even know hoe difficult is to put food on the table.
Cutey is a man and he is a malonda.! :d May be a nurse but what is the dfference?
To all those irrantional bloggers, there r better ways to chat amongst urselves than wasting space on this page.
Back to the topic, John Mambo can do better by suggesting ideas to Gov that can lure Zambians to grow more food instead of making an empty call.Its Gov’s responsibility to provide inducements to attract more people into farming instead of lobbying for international maize donors.
#24, Sarah Jones, besides being a wife and mother I have to work Fridays and Saturdays whenever necessary. Someone has to do it.. see what I mean? :-?;));));));));;);;);;);;);;);;)~o)~o)~o)
Cutey.
Thats the way to go gal. Now I think some bloggers are getting tired of me already so I will be back when I can talk sense.
Cutey what sort of job have you got? Only bamalonda work on Saturdays or nurses! I am surprised you are one of the two but an MMD cadre how sad!:d
#22 and #28.forgive us please,If we are really wasting space let LT deal with us.You are very funny guys getting upset over simple issues sure,you dont get upset when pipo use vulgar languege.Mulasekesha guys.a friendly advice to you guys.If you cant beat us then join us.
#31, suit yourself and please stay amused….I chose to work weekends.. more pay…. I work at a departmental store checkout…. :d/:d/:d/:d/:d/:d/
#33 Aha!
More money? Yeah right! More like the minimum wage? £5.50 per hour? Cutey shuwa (in English)?
#34,FYI, I don’t get paid in Pounds….. :d/
To Whom It May Concern
I am a malonda. So what? I man up to my responsibilities and take care of what I need to. Does what I do have any relevance with what I contribute to the blog?
It’s nice that you can call out people when you feel their contribution is tasteless but denigrating what they do tells us a lot about how miopic and truncated your own perpectives are.
#34, how much I get paid is non of your business.. you can go hang yourself… :)>-~X(~X(
#36, Walasa d>=d>=d>=d>=d>=d>=d>=d>=d>=d>
I get irritated with this number chakuti and chakuti, especially that it comes from grown ups. Its some old habit coming from the mentality of number 1 mukunya, 1 mukufyala, 1 mubuchende, 1 mukolwa and such irrevant childish based competition.
Can someone tell me, is this the same Bishop who had some allegation of sleeping around with some girl in Lusaka fit to be his daughter sometime back. And is this the guy who was shown finished apparently ravaged by what was clear to be AIDS, though he claimed to have been suffering from some kidney malfunction. Please update me guys.
Aha! me enjoying all the comments here! :d
I AM LISTENING TO NEWS ON ZNBC. BUT LET ME SAY THAT THANK GOD I HAVE DSTV AND JUST PRAY THAT I CONTINUE PAYING FOR THIS SERVICE EVEN IN THE FACE OF THIS WORLD ECONOMIC CRUNCH.
ZNBC TV STATION IS JUST A WASTE OF TIME EVEN VIEWING IT. ALL YOU HEAR IS RB IS DOING THIS AND THAT.
WHEN PEOPLE COME ON TV, IT IS TO SAY WE ARE AGAINST DEMOS AND VIOLENCE. ONE CAN QUESTION AS TO HOW AND WHY IS IT POSSIBLE THAT ZNBC IS CONVENIENTLY IN THE PRESENCE AND INTERVIEWS ONLY THOSE FOR THE GOVERNMENT AND NOT OTHERWISE. THIS STATION TO TELL YOU STINKS.
Cutey Darling dont mind these frustrated pipo if you clean bums, guard,even if its minimum wage, it doesnt matter,you earn it genuinly some of them just want to shine for nothing mulekula mumano.
Its sad that zambian have a complex problem…kulibonesha…some of you even if you want to show off you are just junk of a human being,not worth to have as a relative,your famillies are ashamed of you amno ububi and you come on the blog to insult pipo that are genuinly building their lives, grow up or beta chat up if u cant joke along or contribute,no presure
# 31 ulichikopo nacho ichipuba ….who told you only nurses and security guards work on saturday. you come on the blog to expose ubututu bobe,,,shame on you.kalale
#31.Number 1 chakuti is better that what you have said inyour comment.Why say all those things sure? anyway you are forgiven,If God can forgive us who are we not to forgive you.
HI MATWORLD.ELOBWACHA SO TULI PA RILAX…WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN???
#42, #43 Thanks for all your support, #31 is a loser…..Chipuba sana, takwata amano. Maybe kaichefye, just ignore all the crap from this blogger.
Iam a very hard working, proud housewife, mother and relative to so many Zedians. We chipuba we #31. I earn my money honestly, sakalonyongo iwe… ~X(~X(~X(~X(~X(~X(~X(~X(:-@:-@:-@:-@:-@:-@:-@:-@:-@:-t:-t:-t:-t8-x8-x8-x8-x8-x:-ss:-ss:-ss
On a good note… I recently travelled to Zedi with my daughter,to the copperbelt to be specific, everyone kept saying MWANDI at the beginning of each sentence.( e.g mwandi lelo imfula nailoka sana.) What does mwandi mean in English? I couldn’t translate that one. :-?:-w
#45.I was watching football,hey ama guys lelo nabafulwa Iam sure they are broke.
I THINK ITS AN EXPRESSION LIKE THE WAY WE USE “MY DEAR “IN A CONVERSATION….JUST A THOUGHT…
Thanks #49 suppergal, maybe you are closer to the answer. I couldn’t come up with anything, I will pass on the message to my daughter.. Now just being nosey.. are you suppergal as in supper (dinner) or supergal? just an observation- no offense meant please.. :-?:-?:-?:-w:-w;));))
Politics of poverty is a killer to meanful process of democracy. Demos are part of democracy and being against is part of ones rights. Therefore if people want to demonstrate in a peaceful way it is good for democracy and the whole world will see Zed as democratic.
Then, we have to get serious about switching a significant number of subsistence farmers into professional agriculture. That means that medium sized farmers must be secure in their property rights – land reform. They will need some support for machinery, some education (two years is more than enough to begin with). In short, we need to professionalize medium sized farming, and move away from the present subsistence/commercial farmer model.
There have to be works projects to build infrastructure and hydrology with the aim to provide (cough) water for every farm. This will also prevent the annual floods that are so destructive.
Bishop Mambo, do you have a farm yourself? and if so can you tell the nation what you are growing? Not muka nwa chabe apa
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#39, that is the same chap. Am sure he is just broke and that he was not included mu NCC, really the cock stopper has been removed from his mouth. The guy was chased from his church kulyakwine balelya umutulo so akapowe nakengila and the next thing kuvokavoka chabe.
#53 Exactly. [-o<8-x8-x:-&:-&:-&
Goodmorning Suppergal.. =d>=d>=d>=d>=d>=d>^:)^^:)^
Bishop Mambo should set an example. Be the first one to grow more food :-?:-?:-?:-?:-?:-?:-?:-?
Goodmorning Cutey, Suppergal and everyone else.
Cutey, to respond to your question in #47 : “mwandi” can be translated as “indeed” and is one of those words which are used to express emotions in various languages.
Also comparable to “tatsächlich” in German.
#59, Nine Chale. Thats interesting. I will pass on the message to my daughter. I needed this world wide coverage research results,as believe it or not the people using this word often and everyday could not help me. :-?:-?:-?:-?:-?@-)@-)@-):):)**==**==**==**==**==**==**==>:/>:/>:/>:/>:/>:/>:/
#59, maybe you can teach me Germany in future. My daughter is studying German as second language at School. :d/:d/:d/=d>=d>=d>=d>=d>=d>=d>=d>=d>=d>=d>
#59 Sorry, Goodmorning to you too. and g’day as I go to sleep now.
just found this web site. What is the food situation? Are there any incentives from the government