People whose maize was slashed on hill slopes in Chipata district on Wednesday will be compensated.
Chipata Central Member of Parliament, Lameck Mangani confirmed the development in a telephone interview. Mr. Mangani said that the Chipata District Disaster Management Committee will go to the hills and assess the damage to see how the affected families can be assisted, although he did not disclose the kind of aid to be provided.
The MP, who is also Lusaka Province Minister, however, warned that the move to assist the affected families is not an acknowledgement that people should continue cultivating on the hill slopes.
Mr. Mangani said that cultivating on hill slopes contributes to land degradation. He said that this is because the hills are left bare resulting in heavy current of water from the hill slopes, damaging property and roads in the townships.
Meanwhile, Mr. Mangani has condemned the move by the residents to stone his building in Nabvutika compound in protest against the council’s action.
The MP said that it was also unfortunate that the residents had intentions to go and slash maize at the republican president, Rupiah Banda’s farm along the Chipata-Mfuwe road.
He strongly condemned the action by the grieved residents, saying people should not take the law into their hands. The residents on Wednesday took to the street stoning the building belonging to Mr. Mangani, a shop for Nabvutika Area Chairman for Zone 3, Dauzen Mwanza and a house belonging to Chipata mayor Sinoya Mwale.
This was in protest against the move by the council to slash their maize planted on the hill slopes. The slashing of maize has also sparked confusion between the mayor and the ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy, MMD’s leadership, with the mayor facing disciplinary action.
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When?
Wensday?Ok! hope its the truth!
If they did something illegal by farming in that area then why compensate them? This government is contradicting itself as usual 😕
slashing what this time
Ha ha ha :))
I hope that assessment wont go upto 2011! In time for Sugar ditribution
Good example…I hope others follow. Compensation is a necessity.
I wonder who gave the instruction to slash the maize 😕
Hi C and Chale, almost the weekend :d
You should also deduct some money from Ba Moze’s salary as well.He was in full support of the exercise :-j:-j:-j:-j
And Matworld! :d
I’m sure they heard there was mbeba living in between the maize that’s why 🙂
sound fair!! at last
Please LT I need a kadooli of a mouse… please?
Yebo Sony Eric & Matworld…congratulations Baby C. You’re lucky I’m on a short leave as nambala one.:d
I thought these people were warned against faming in the hills, and appropriate action was taken against the offenders, so why compansate them. Or is it just to protect RB’s field?
:o:o:o boma yatu!
No one has slashed peoples maize. This is what happens when you promise people things you can not give them.
rb :((
Sony Ericson Phiri
what do you want? Ive missed your point
Now that the villagers will be compensated for, they must use this money to buy panga’s and slashers to cut RB’s maize field efficiently and comprehensively. Again i will say VITENDENI!! Nyama soma nabanani!
I gues tax payers money will be used for compensation…what a waste! Ordinary citizens always have bear the burden of the consequences of decisions taken by our politicians. It seems the whole crew are just Nyamasoyas!
eeee these guys wanted to revange by slashing RBs farm :d:d oh sorry i mean:(:([-(
ndolic I want a kadooli of an imbeba (edible bush mouse)
MAN u’re right!!!!!!!! why compesate them if they were warned
just let them slash bandaz field coz they are angry there is no more free sugar :o:o
Something like this :-b but a mouse you see?
I’m going to phone Chipata now and tell them an extraordinary number of bush mouse has been found in RB’s maixe field then that will be the end of that… 😕
Sony Ericsson Phiri
Wanvera mushe coz your uncle is one of those who will be compasated.okay wait and see they will be given ma 2kg ya sugar
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yes they should compensate them that is a good move.
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Ichibote bane!
I hope the so called compensation will be given to the right Victims & be equal to what was lost.
Muyopa Kuluza ma Election in eastern province. you ‘ve come to your sense now! you can’t villagers are difficult pipo especially easteners carefull!!!!!……. :o:o:o:o:o
so what was the point in slashing the maize in the first place.pa zed people take the authority they have for granted,balapila why not give people land,we have so much land but aquiring it is so difficult so people do farming anywhere for as long as they know fikakula..eye let them compensate us after all even my maize was slashed i will benefit mwe. ha ha ha matworld did you hear that?
Number 30, kto ti? hahahahaha….!
I see in my crystal ball …… Maziyopa Part 2. Compensation is easier said than done.
Firstly people of Zambia educate me on this one. Are hills also gazetted or has the council alocated some plots on this hills if not please someone has to pay. 2ndly, did the council warn these people not to go ahead with planting maize along the hills? can somebody answer me please am waiting. Do not create hunger even when you can avoid it. Me i eat well as a president of Zim but its the poor Zimbabweans that suffer, do be so folish chipata council
spasiba #30
Sony Ericson Phiri
you see sony we hold mbeba to such high esteem and can only be served on very important occations.what with this deforestation.Prove if you are worthy of the delicacy handed down to us by our wise ancestors
Pay as you Slash
Slash as you pay
Okey LT am out of this place may i be allowed to blow ma kisses to the following…baby c, ba moze, martworld, hotchick, sony erickson, g-baby, luska, nine chale uncle G,PY, Darknight, Kiswa, man ..oh no the list will go on and on all you bloggers happy weekend:x:x:)>-:)>-:)>-
Thanx princes
kusaganiza bwino konse uku. anyway nice weekend to you all.
Yo Rashid enjoy, try to ignore Gaza for a while
lets start with rupiah’s maize yes,
#37 how can I prove that
Sony Ericsson Phiri,home is where the heart is
#45
maybe you are a food monger.we probably would know what to cook for you next time you hit town.nangu limbi muli baku bu fumu
Poor management by Chipata Municipal council. Why authorise the slashing of maize and then turn around and say the victims will be compensated. Heads must roll as this is a shear waste of our meager resources.
Princess Vayola
I recieved every one of those kisses. You too have a great weekend.
Rashid sorry for that
Ndolic I’m not a food monger I just want to eat mbeba, I haven’t tasted for some years
Sony Eric
I tumbeba! never tasted before and i will send you a grilled baby Chimp! :d
We told you the move and timing was wrong now you want to misuse public funds. who even gave this order anyway? Zambians learn to plan please! You have just created another way of stealing public funds watch the space.
#38 and 39 What about those of us that are paying the PAYE or is it ‘Pay as you Lose?’ I’m sure the compensation is ours to foot….indirectly
Yes pliz Baby C a vervet monkey :d
You should taste
That’s a good lesson to the Zimbabweans …sometimes force works. Osa sebelesa ma Zambians. We know what is rightfully ours! The government wanted to take Zambians for a ride. This is the way to go…not only pa mataba; but also on other serious national issues like closing mines. “You close my source of income; I close your source of income as well”; the slash mine slash your paradigm – version 2.0 :d/
Why slash the fields in the first place? This expenditure (from us tax payers of course) could have been avoided if these council officers dialogued with the victims. Spend some money in future to provide security (council home guards) so that people do not cultivate on these hills. In addition, provide alternative land to these villagers for this activity so that they continue feeding there families. There is plenty of idle land a long great east road sufficient for farming but just that the councils and traditional leaders want to hold on to land they donot need. e bu Chief ubo??
The idea to slash and then compensate is a welcome one if you realy think much.
To slash is to stop them clearing those landscape which helps prevent soil erosion and most importantly it brings rain.
To compensate is to help those people in this trying time for they made effort not to depend so much on the govt.
Mangani dont think the people of chipata central will forgive you. You betrayed them and they are fuming with anger and no amount of compensation will sooth their hearts.
sony
i will tell Dailesi to prepare you mbeba kebebs or mbeba with chips .just tell me wen you want it
The slashing of maize has also sparked confusion between the mayor and the ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy, MMD’s leadership, with the mayor facing disciplinary action.
#MMD please leave the mayor alone. Why contradicting yourselves. You say you dont support cultivating on the hillsides which the mayor is also against. For what reason is he going to face discipline???
Be mature …its either you tell the mayor that he was wrong or to keep quiet. And now you want to steal more through those facke compensations which will not go to victims of your useless action.
UBUPUBA ALAA.!!!
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thnx ndolic I’ll let you know
Matworld, Sony eric,kambongolo, Nine Chale,Lusaka, Ndolic, kiswa,Alfred, Sweet Zed fimfimo…
Good night 😡 and :*.
I have stopped generalising because some of you dont bother to say…goodnight too.:-h
IWE BABY C ALA KUNO TWABA YALIKOSA…we are always working ..so busy i wonder how you guys manage the every second on LT. Please give ka secret so that I should also blog every second.
Sleep well baby c. We love u or sole..we like you :x:x:x:x
goodnight too baby C have a good weekend
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An eye for an eye seems to be at play and working here. Whatever the case, my view is that this stay on the slashing by council authorities is very progressive.
Please GRZ, in form of councils – local government, please learn to respect other people in whatever you do. Do we have risk managers, eg president HH, in our trained local government systems?
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Baby c
I protest you cant go to sleep this time.Ill start banging the drum
Ba moze, ati buti?
Who issued slashing orders,he should not be left scott free.Infact he should be made to pay heavily for his sins.Maize is not grown in one day,the process is that long.Why didn`t he/she issue chasing orders when thie poor women were preparing the areas.This is tantamount to terrorism.
Feierabend… Nainuka.. Work is over… Naya Kunganda… Let me go and eat .. I heard kuli Sabi lelo. Thank God its Friday
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#22 No, they will sell the Hummer and pay off. Thats a good farming strategy esp when you expect droughts !
Mr. Mangani said that cultivating on hill slopes contributes to land degradation. He said that this is because the hills are left bare
So erosion is the reason. Well if that’s the problem, teach the farmers to interplant rye and hairy vetch (which fixates nitrogen and saves the farmer on fertilizer) in the standing corn. When the corn is harvested, the cornstalks wither and add organic material, while the planted cover crops protect the soil and add nitrogen.
Mr. Mangani and the council should be sentenced to cracking open the book “Making Your Small Farm Profitable” by Ron Macher, and reading it from cover to cover.
Guys.
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ANOTHER LOOPHOLE FOR STEALING MONEY. EH!
Ala kwena fina Chipata fyali chengela nafyena kanshi.They went to Mangani,s building the police intervened,fya isa chuchunganya mayor and finally almost slashing RB,s maize.How i wish they had done that.Iwe mangani dont condemn them for wanting to slash RB,s maize.Why did you slash theirs?am not satisfied with the reasons you are giving.#30 Anonymous taumfwa!
#30 Anonymous, you’re the best! You’ve made my day!!!
Ala Nine Chale,uyu Anonymous #30 naine wine,he has made my day.Ala tachumfwa chi Anonymous.#30 love you so much.
It’s like in ba RB’s government tax payers money has to be wasted with no due consideration. Zedians it’s this kind of leadership that is killing you, they have to tax us heavily to accomodate silly issues like this one. Councilor passed that bill and these are representatives of people.
Elo pilizi milisi izi zapya kudaaaala!
Yes, compasesyoni iliche. Should have warned the back yard farmer…with the then rocketing mealie-meal price fear.
Why should they. Is it bcos it is in Chipata. Plse help Mazyopa as well.People have suffered enough.4get LPM and Masebo admin.
This is a good decision.Even if farmers were warned about not cultivating there then alternative land should have been provided but i guess that wasn’t the case so the farmers were left with no choice.It is through subsistence farming that most poor people find means of living so it would be absurd for anyone on this blog to say the govt is wrong by instructing the disaster management unit to pay out compensation to all those affected,how do you expect people to survive when their produce is destroyed,it’s too late to re-plant.
I also say the decision to order the slashing was illogical too & someone must be disciplined for that.
Does anyone here think that issueing title deeds to peasant farmers so they have real security of tenure and can invest in their land.
And no one from the council, no politician, no chief, no ‘investor’ can come in and throw them off their land, or destroy their crops without their consent?
The money for compesating the farmers should come from the salaries of those civil servants and whoever sent them or else they should be fired, no more misusing tax payers money for negligence and abuse of duties.
It is not always the case that cultivating on slopes creates soil erosion. It depends on the gradient of the slope, soil type, minimum tillage methods, whether there other plants like shrubs or small trees e.t.c. Sometimes it even helps to manage crops on a slope!
Whether the council in Chipata had all the facts to make an informed decision of the effect the maize had on the slopes is information I am not privy to. They may have a case or merely acted on the general theory that cultivating on slopes tends to cause soil erosion.
#84 poverty is real and has it’s own problems. Last month peasant farmers of maposa were being issued title deeds programme sponsored by world vision/ministry of lands already they are saling this land with a plan to encrotch in near by gazzetted forests and come 2011 elections GRZ will formalise it seeking a vote. We need order in the country.
Also one observation I have made most councils whether maize or illegal structures they wait until it’s almost ready then they move in to demolish or slash.something is terribly wrong somewhere I believe councillors reside in areas they represent so why wait when something can be stopped at inception?
amour fee na yambi… ya shani iyi kanshi ba zed… so wasteful. :((
What a bumper Harvest?
Environmentally no land will be degraded if vegetation is added to it. :d/
Corrupt NyamaSoya has instructed Chipata council to compansate people, awarding them for wrong behaviour, because he comes from Chipata. Is he cooling their tempers cause they wanted to go and slash his maize field/farm???
SoyaNyama is full of appeasement. It started with sugar daddy to this. The ACC should swing into action. But knowing how toothless they are, they wont move an inch!!!
Animal farm, ‘all animals are equal but some are more equal than others’.
lawful or unlawful,it’s clear the threats of slashing RB’s maize achieved thier desired effect,i don’t think those residents care about RB’s motive!!!the end justifies the means. :):):)
They used tax money to buy slashers and pay some wages to those who slashed maize. They will use further tax money to compensate the victims. They also need some stationery for this purpose and paymasters or whatever they are called … no wonder why the world is in a mess – this is folly!
Kubuta uku nomba. These guys are playing house with government.
This is a good example of direct action and what it can achieve. Bravo villagers.
OUR COUNTRY HAS NO GOVERNMENT OR ANY SORT OF LEADER BUT FULL OF JOB SEEKER LIKE TETA AND WONDER WHY EVEN THOSE WE THOT WERE GOING TO BE DIFFERENT ARE ALSO BECOMING QUITE. SO DON`T EXPECT GOOD DECISION MWANA.
IT`S A NYAMA SOYA GOVERNMENT ZEMUNTU BOI. DON`T WORRY THEIR TIME WILL COME WHO CHILUBA WILL ONE DANCE TO EVERYONE`S TUNE THOSE BERRIES WILL SHAKE.
IT`S A NYAMA SOYA GOVERNMENT ZEMUNTU BOI. DON`T WORRY THEIR TIME WILL COME WHO THOT CHILUBA WOULD ONE DAY DANCE TO EVERYONE`S TUNE THOSE BELLIES WILL SHAKE. I MEAN NYAMA SOYA`S BELLY.
Agricultural experts,are you there? It appears Zambia,and Chipata in particular, is the only place in the world where farming on mountain/hill sides is illegal.Maybe you just want to be heard that there is also what we may call Agriculture Experts Ministry in this NYAMA SOYA GOVRNMENT.