Today's letters

Tue, 14 Mar 2017 10:19:51 +0000

Ndeke Meanwood in dire need of tarred roads

Dear Editor

Before the re-introduction of multi-partism in 1991, Zambians had no idea of owing a house as this was a preserve of the elite in society.

Those who had houses it was in slums like Misisi,Kanyama Chaisa etc in Lusaka.

Most civil servants lived in rented houses from the Council in areas like Libala, Matero, Chilenje etc.

These people believed that towns and cities were for those in formal employment.

After retirement they “went back” to the land as was the philosophy of the UNIP regime under socialist state and humanism.

However, when the President Chiluba (MHSRIP) administration came into power, there was a swift turn of events from socialism to capitalism with new terms like retrenchment, liquidation, privatisation, etc.

The MMD sold all council houses to sitting tenants and that was when every available land was grabbed for residential housing.

This saw the birth of Chalala, New Kasama, Ibex and Meanwood to mention but a few.

Previously it was the duty of the local authority to collect garbage, maintain streets, provide water and such services but now thing have changed.

Meanwood Ndeke in Chongwe is one such area which needs road urgently.

The roads are in a deplorable conditions and the residents seem not to know whom to complain to.

Cars often get stuck after a heavy downpour and this leads to late reporting for work of which government lose out on man hours.

That Lusaka Province Minister and Chongwe MP pledged to make roads once the rains are over  is a move well timed.

Our appeal is that the MP must not just lobby for the roads but also street lights as the area becomes pitch black during the night and the thieves found solace in doing their clandestine activities.

It also our prayer that the chosen contractor will do a better job by even considering drainages as well as road marking and not forgetting naming the streets.

We are now in a municipal council, why can’t we be like our friends in Chingola or Kabwe?

Once more, we salute you our hard working MP to finish the road construction even before 2017 comes to an end. We are behind you, go go Japhen!!

CHAKWIYA BORNFACE

CHONGWE

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Please cage Kambwili

Dear Editor,

The warnings about caging Chishimba Kambwili are very timely. I was in Parliament when the former Minister launced his tirade against Minister Freedom Sikazwe. It was not pretty. It was downright ugly and highly disrespectful of the decorum of the august House. The speaker did well to ignore the entire episode otherwise it would have embarrassed the country immensely.

He has no brakes and certainly no sense of direction. He will say anything that comes to his head without considering the ramifications of the statement. This is not the type of leader we need.

Zambia needs team players who will put the nation before themselves and those people who feel indispensable. Nobody can claim to be the answer to all problems.

The impression Mr. Kambwili has decided to create that he is above the ruling party and yet within is untenable. He is either within the party and observe collective responsibility or step out to champion his political aim.

The one thing he cannot do is remain within the party and then champion opposition interests. This is unacceptable.

Desmond Chimzinga

Micmar junction in deplorable state

Dear Editor

I would like to appeal to the owners of Micmar to do something about the junction on  Lumumba road as a  social responsibility gesture to help the council and Road Development Agency(RDA) to repair the next junction that has taken close to two months with no hope of completion.

The Micmar Lumumba junction has been getting worse by the day and  a quick fix can be implemented at very little cost even if it means just putting aggregate.

There is no doubt that the heavy trucks that deliver cement and other products are partly responsible for the damage. Please Micmar come to the aid of the Government in this dire time.

Sam Nguni

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Cartel slow down Fred M’membe’s case?

Dear Editor,

I wish to agree with those schools of thought who feel that the case of Fred M’membe and his former Post is taking too long to conclude.

Why are the wheels of justice rotating this slowly over this matter?

Admittedly the cartel is a force to reckon with because it is using the all-power tool, money which many of us, including officers of the courts cannot resist.

Is it thereof possible that the cartel has badly infiltrated our judiciary that it is now just fumbling as seen by many of us laymen?

what is so special about this case that it is taking years before it is disposed of?

Forget LAZ, but I think that that there must be men and women out of there who can perform wonders over M’Membe’s case but are being deliberately frustrated.

I stand to be corrected but I am smelling a rat over this matter.

Can invading tax become such a complicated case as Zambians are now being made to believe?

Some of us who have seen the people like Fred M’membe and his cohorts send innocent people to their early graves canto not help but continue to wonder as what is going on in our country.

The Judiciary appears to have completely collapsed. Even Paramount Chief Chitimukulu of the Bemba speaking people thinks the same too.

Something is terribly amiss with our Judiciary system and that is why people like Fred can toy with it as he pleases. What a big shame.

It is true that when a day you know is Wednesday begins to sound like Sunday, then you must know that something somewhere has gone terribly wrong.

I will not be surprised if this case will drag on up to next year

Jolophan Phiri, LUSAKA