Greedy Investors urged to leave Sinazomgwe

The newly formed MALIKO Community Development Trust in Chief Sinazongwe has warned that investors failing to share their wealth with the community were at liberty to leave the district.

 

MALIKO Community Development Trust Chairperson Alfred Siachaluza said investors in Sinazongwe district were failing to pay royalties as was being done in other provinces.

 

Mr. Siachaluza said only one named investor in the district was paying royalties to the chiefdom while the rest were pocketing all their resources to themselves.

 

“We have watched closely the activities of our esteemed investors, hoping that they will one day remind themselves to remit royalties to the Chief as done in other provinces but nothing has been done for the welfare of the community,” Mr. Siachaluza said.

 

He said the trust was a non-political organisation and has opened up their minds to ensure that they were the proper custodians of their wealth and they deserved a share from investor within the chiefdom.

 

“This is not a threat but a friendly reminder, that we deserve royalties also here,” the Chairperson noted.

Mr. Siachaluza explained that the trust’s objective was to uplift the living standard of the communities through regaining the lost wealth that has been drained by investors without paying royalties.

Women for Change field Animator Vincent Akamandisa said he was glad to be part of the MALIKO Community Development Trust because it would benefit the rural people.

 

Mr. Akamandisa said Woman for change initiated and supported the same activity in Chief Bright Nalumamba’s area.

He disclosed that through their efforts they have managed to create SADC council for traditional leaders.

The field Animator noted that despite having a lot of natural resources in Chief Sinazongwe’s area poverty levels were still high.

He reaffirmed that little has been done to raise the living standards of people that were displaced since Lake Kariba was belt in 1967.

“How much money has been raised to develop the displaced people, they have not benefited even from the coal being mined in their area, the trust will help the chief to manage the social capital we wish them the best,” Mr. Akamandisa said.