Chibombo District Commissioner ( DC ) Colonel Philip Chabakale has expressed his dissapointment at the Zambia wildlife authority ( ZAWA )’s officers failure to capture two stray lions that in the recent past terrorised Chiyuni area.
Col. Chibakale said he was concerned that ZAWA officers who were in the area to capture the dangerous beasts had not succeeded in their mission.
He said this had left lives of people and their domestic animals at the mercy of the marauding lions. The beasts recently killed two cows in the area.
The DC has since appealed to the ZAWA management to redeploy its officers to control the situation.
The beasts are suspected to have come from Kafue national park and Kaindu area in Mumbwa district have so far slain 3 cows in the area since they were spotted.
And the presence of the lions in the area has delayed the re-opening of schools in the area.
One of the schools is Kalebuka Basic school. The school head teacher Belington kunda says the lions were spotted by several local residents in the area around 04:00 hrs this morning.
Mr Kunda says the lives of innocent children trailing to school every morning are at stake because of the lions which are looming around in the area.
He further appealed to local authorities to move in to curb the situation as the lions pose a serious security risk in the area.
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