The Patriotic Front (PF) in Southern Province has appealed to PF Secretary General, Davies Chama, to take serious interest in the work culture of some District Commissioners in Southern Province who have allegedly aligned themselves with an opposition political party.
Some members of the PF Executive in Choma District have alleged that some DCs in the region are working with a named opposition political party thereby frustrating government programmes.
Speaking to journalists in Choma today, PF Choma District Vice Chairperson, Kebby Mbewe, said his party was aware of some DCs in the province who had aligned themselves with a named opposition political party.
He, therefore, appealed for immediate action against these DCs, saying if left unchecked, the party and government programmes would be derailed.
“We are aware that some DCs in the province have hidden agendas by working with a named opposition political party in Southern Province. We are not happy that instead of those DCs working to promote government programmes, they have hidden agendas,” he said
He said some DCs were allegedly interfering in the ruling party’s operations in the province causing some confusion in order to woo support from members for the named political party of their interests.
Mr Mbewe was further unhappy with the Choma Municipal Council’s decision to continue closing shops whose owners have defaulted in paying business licences.
He said the K1,620 amount the council is charging for various business levies to shop-owners was too high as other bigger councils like the Livingstone City Council were charging about K400.
He called on government to take interest in the operation of Choma Municipality which he alleged that only depended on shop-owners as its major source of revenue.
Last week scores of shop-owners marched to the Choma District Commissioner’s office to seek audience from the DC over the closure of their shops by the local authority.
Efforts by Choma District Commissioner, Bernadette Hamweemba to seek leniency from the council on behalf of the shop-owners failed as the Town Clerk, Timothy Mambalakata, vowed not open any shop until the owners paid their dues.
Mr Mambalakata said the local authority had given the shop-owners enough grace period in which to renew their licenses but failed.
Fire them we have no time to waste naba Kabwaa! Let them join their fellow losers. Nabasele tubombeko.
YES YES YES!
SOUTHERN PROVINCE DOES NOT NEED GOVERNMENT HANDOUTS TO SURVIVE. IT HAS BEEN INDEPENDED SINCE FATHER MOULOU INTRODUCED A PLOUGH AT CHIKUNI MISSION IN 1904. ALL THAT THESE PEOPLE NEED IS THE HELP FROM GOD THROUGH GOOD RAINFALL.
CONTINUE TO VOTE FOR POVERTY U WHO DEPENDS ON GOVERNMENT HAND OUTS FOR SURVIVAL. UBUCHUSHI BULABELELA. MWAFYALWANABO. LEAVE SOUTHERN PROVINCE ALONE. THEY KNOW WHAT THEY WANT BY NOT VOTING FOR PAYA FAMMERS.
We are aware of this very unfortunate behavior of our cousins in southern province, the government already has plans for most govt officers that take expose their political affiliations in the way they conduct their duties.. Slow but surely it will be sorted…
Please be civilised what of Eastern Province and CB?
please North western DCs specially this Kasempa DC is Pro Rainbow party .
It’s not Choma alone, even Luangwa, Rufunsa and several other district. Infact most of these were positioned for future arrangements. Action is now genuine people are there waiting to provide a gpo working culture.
STUPID! MBEWE CANNOT COME ALL THE WAY FROM EASTERN PROVINCE AND DICTATE TO US ON HOW WE SHOULD RUN OUR LIVES IN SOUTHERN PROVINCE. BY THE WAY, SOUTHERN PROVINCE IS NOT RULED BY PF AND KACHASO LUNGU, SOTHERN PROVINCE IS RULED BY UPND AND HH. WE DO NOT NEED PF GOVERNMENT IN SOUTHERN PROVINCE. FOR YOUR OWN INFORMATION, SOUTHERN PROVINCE HAS SURVIVED WITHOUT HANDOUTS FROM GOVERNMENT FOR OVER 30 YEARS NOW. VIVA HH VIVA! VIVA UPND VIVA!
@ TRUTH
Stop lying! Everyone, every province needs the government. Do you think Kafue Hydro powerstation with all the transmission power lines and Man made lake Kariba dam was funded by Tongas? You are a joker. The fact is that resources to build those infrastructure including Itezhi Itezhi hydro is funded by the world bank through the PEOPLE of ZAMBIA and not Tongas. Even resources for upgrading Livingstone as a Tourist capital is not the initiate of Tongas but Zambia as whole and resources did not come from the sale of cattle but through UNWTO global funds and other sources.
Most DCs where placed there by Kabimba when he was PF SG. These are almost automatically Rainbow party. Remove them now.
PF secretary in choma a Mr Mbewe and you are accuse others of tribalism……..can a mr Hamududu be a PF secretary in Muchinga, Northern or Eastern?
take an action plz
True, edgar fire them NOW!!! they were all concubines for one “Wynter” as a reward for sex! In fact even some Provincial Chairladys, watch them…..
MBEWE YOU ARE VERY SICK! HOW DO YOU EXPECT DCs NOT TO WORK WITH OPPOSITION WHEN YOU FULLY KNOW IT THAT SOUTHERN PROVINCE IS RULED BY OPPOSITION UPND? STOP THAT FOOLISH MENTALITY YOU FOOLISH PF FOOLS!ALL OF YOU GUYS IN PF ARE MENTALLY ILL, JUST LIKE YOUR LATE PRESIDENT SATA WAS. IF YOU MBEWE THINK YOU ARE UNTOUCHABLE, YOU WILL SOON BE SORRY BECAUSE WE ARE GOING TO FLUSH YOU OUT OF OUR PROVINCE.
@Truth – I would encourage civility as we engage in political discourse. Coz it’s God who determines where we are born and where we’ll live. I’m an Easterner but my home(life) has always been Lamba Province. And if you’re a true Politician or dream to be, one reality yet to be known to some of you is; in Politics we don’t have permanent friends nor permanent enemies.
DCs were supposed to be civil servants as the politicians put but surprisingly these chaps are politicians who spend tax payers money for nothing . I don’t think we need these people coz the fact remains that party in government is paying cadres to promote the party coz that is stealing money into a party. Of DCs are to be civil servants let they advertise so people who qualify are given these jobs
Let us live like human beings! Why all these insults. Is this the way we will be living as Zambians? We all Zambians, lets stop being tribal. One Zambia One Nation period.
Fire them. There are alot of well educated and qualified individuals in thousands who can work better to deliver government programmes.