RESIDENTS of Mwami and Kalasakando villages in Chembe district in Luapula province are using the barter system as a mode to trade goods and services because there is a short supply of the Zambian currency in the area.
Sub chief Kapwepwe of the Ushi people in Mutanda area in Chembe district said short supply of the currency in the area had made it difficult for the people to pay community teachers their salaries.
The chief said this on Sunday when Mansa Central Member of Parliament (MP) Chitalu Chilufya paid a courtesy call on the sub chief in his constituency.
Chief Kapwepwe said the situation had been compounded by inaccessibility to most parts of the area as it had been cut off from the rest of district due to the poor state of roads.
“We are appealing to Government to consider rehabilitating roads in the area as most of the places had been cut off making it difficult for people to move from one area to the other. This has also resulted in the scarcity of local currency making it very difficult to pay community workers in the area,” he said.
He said the other challenge that the area was facing was mobile telecommunication network accessibility, a situation which prompted, medical personnel to walk about two kilometres to access the network signal in an event of an emergency.
The chief also called on the ministry of Education to consider sending inspectors in his area to assess the performance of teachers that had been posted to the area.
He said most of the teachers in the area were drawing free salaries and not reporting for work as they spent most of the time in Mansa.
“In most cases you will find that teachers especially in Kalasakando abscond even for two weeks without reporting for work,” he said.
Dr Chilufya who is also deputy health minister assured the chief that Government would ensure that it addresses the challenges that the traditional ruler had highlighted.
He said President Michael Sata was committed to ensuring that development was taken to all the parts of the country through the construction and rehabilitation of roads and health centres.
“Government will construct two teacher’s houses in Lubu, and complete the one which was not finished, we will also finish the school on Kalusha area and expand the school in Chamubu ,” Dr Chilufya said.
Dr Chilufya said three Health post had been earmarked for construction in the area to increase the availability of health facilities in the area.
kakolwe never to be born is sometimes the best, Your girl children in Zambia are looked at as sex objects, i left the bastard were she belongs in the gutter and made myself beautiful mixed race babies who i adore and cherish your black b!tch is servicing every dick in Zed while my angels in europe live like Godesses in the FIRST WORLD.
she the Zambian child reminded me of everything that is bad.
My beautiful mixed race kids are my world.. rich beautiful.
the zambian b!tch like poverty, ghetto life, breeds from every dIck that she meets.. just like your mother Kakolwe!!
Thanx nawty for the info about your inferiority complex. From your discourse, your beautiful African child has found herself as a victim of desertion. She has had no motherly care. Am touched for her. Am sure your coloured beauties do not even know that they have a sibling. I will be grateful if you linked me to her.She wont see my dik but care. I will be around Bishop Waltham in mid June.
Kuli kakolwe, and you are still very annoyed with yourself. Get over it man!!!! Its over. Let her live her life. The environment where she is forces her to do those tings. You should be sympathetic instead and once in a while try to help her both emotionally and financially. You are no different from her just because you fled your own country. She’s just human man!!!!
Thanx nawty for introducing me to Lusaka Times. But, dear sister, bear in mind that “What Goes Around, Comes Around”. The biggest offence that your deserted child commited was to be born from you. When those beautiful rich daughters know what you did, they will HATE you with a PASSION.
Mr dear Kakolwe, you are really a monkey even in the head. God will punish you seriously for hating the colour of your own skin to the extent that you even disown you own child. I can assure you that this black child will live a better life than you. God will bless the child you call bastard today. Wait and see.
You do not know the misery you have caused to that innocent soul that came from your dirty sperm
Kuli Kakolwe and Kakolwe what subject/s are you refering to. I can not make head or tail of what you have written. If it is private write some where else for your own benefit. Thank you.