Letters to the Editor

Fri, 30 Jun 2017 10:14:15 +0000

It is Zambia to issue travel warnings to UK

Dear Editor,

Reading the Mast, I honestly did not know or appreciate the motive behind the British government warning its citizens of travel risks in Zambia.

If anything, it is Lusaka which should be giving out such warnings because terrorist attacks have now become a common feature in London.

It is all easy to infer that London is now brimming with terrorists.

In fact the BBC recently reported: “There never was a London June like this. In the early hours of this morning, with ash still in the air from last week’s catastrophic fire at Grenfell Tower, a man shouting “I want to kill Muslims” drove a van into a crowd of worshipers leaving a mosque in North London after taraweeh prayers for Ramadan.

The attacker was caught and held by members of the congregation, while the imam urged the crowd not to harm him.

One man (already receiving first aid before the attack) died at the scene; eight people are injured, two of them seriously.

This is the third terrorist attack in London and the fourth in Britain since March—and the first to target Muslims. Something is building, frightening, uncertain, anxious, and hopeful too.

The Grenfell Tower fire was the lethal consequence of years of putting profit before people’s lives; it happened in London’s wealthiest and most unequal borough.

So, in all fairness and reality, who should be issuing travel warnings to its citizens between London and Lusaka? Britain? Ha ha ha ha !

Geoffrey George,

LUSAKA

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Corrupt police service

Dear Editor,

Allow me to add my voice to those calling for the dismissal of corrupt police officers who have turned their desperate suspects into ATM’s.

Whereas it takes two to tangle, I feel the vice can be curbed if the police service , through Parliament introduced undercover agents within their systems whose role would be to provide checks on the regular police conduct including the traffic police. The undercover agents should be trained in investigative journalism as their major skills in addition to their normal professional training.

This arrangement will create self-cleansing in the service.

Alternatively, these undercover agents could be from the private world for fear of contamination by the corrupt system.

This arrangement will put the police on guard 24/7.

Mulindangula Mulewa,

Lusaka

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Chingola welcomes launch of C400 roads project

Dear Editor

I write to applaud President Lungu for finally launching the long awaited C400 Chingola Roads construction last weekend.

The impending construction works will surely go a long way in changing the face of Chingola for better.

Residents of Chingola have cried foul for too long and this is now a dream come true for the general citizenry.

The President’s counsel to Road Development Agency and the Contractor to risk their jobs and/or contract for shoddy works is even more commendable.

This means the President has heard the continued complaints of Chingola residents and is alive to previous laxity contractors in the district have had.

Chingola having once been the cleanest Town in Zambia, which was even once in one of the schools subjects need a total face lift. I therefore commend President Lungu for warning RDA and the Contractor right in advance.

Let the Country not spend money on the same projects repeatedly when there are many varying needs awaiting Government funding.

I hope the roads facelift in Chingola will now encourage more business houses to open Malls housing big companies the town has been craving for in a long period.

I also implore our Civic Leaders and indeed the general public to take leading role to do periodic and/or random checks to make sure the contractor does a good job.

Let Chingola general citizenry take this project as theirs.

MW Chingola.   

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Fred M’membe does love people of Southern Province

Dear Editor,

From the onset, may I say that the people of Southern Province never cease to amaze me?

Now I hear voices from the people of Southern Province sympathizing with and supporting Mr. Fred M’membe.

So soon, they have already forgotten or have they forgiven the insults Mr. M’Membe hauled at them in almost all his editorials especially during election period.

Mr. M’membe is evil and only evil people should support and sympathize with him.

Mr. M’membe is a dictator and a tribalists to the max. He harassed and insulted Presidents Frederick Chiluba, Levy Patrick Mwanawasa and Rupiah Bwezani Banda. To him, all these presidents were wrong and he was the only right one. He did all this not for the good of the people of Zambia but for his own ego.

He thought of himself and regarded himself as a god in Zambia. He had started the same thing against President Edgar Lungu who has stood his ground and has refused to be harassed and intimidated by a small man wearing oversized shoes.

On the issue of Mr. M’membe, I fully support and appreciate action taken by President Lungu’s government through our Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA)

ZRA has done the right thing at the right time to the right person.

Yes, Mr. M’Membe has human rights but even President Chiluba, Mwanawasa and Banda had human rights too which Fred violated with impunity.

Yes, Mr. Hakainde Hichilema, Mr. Anderson Mazoka and the people of Southern province have rights too which Mr. M’membe violated with impunity in the name of freedom of press.

People of Southern Province, please think outside the box and celebrate with me the demise of the Post Newspaper.

It is really good riddance for you. Fred M’membe hates you.

H.C.H Simachela

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Political fights can be abated

Dear Editor,

I implore all political sympathizers to know that politics is about general governance of our Country Zambia and should not escalate into personal fights.

The fights that happened recently at a burial service in Lusaka not so long ago is not healthy for both our Country and politics.

What is even worse is that many a time the fights are between helpless cadres who are not even near the helm of political powers in respective parties.

Why should we brutalize each other for just other people’s benefit?

Let us not take politics personal but as a way of governance.

When this knowledge is inculcated in every political sympathizer by top political party leaders, fights will surely end.

Divergent views should not mean enmity.

Wisdom Muyunda,

CHINGOLA