President Edgar Lungu has expressed displeasure with the performance of the Zambia Police in North-Western Province.
ZANIS reports that President Lungu said police in the province has not provided enough security to safeguard gold deposits in the area.
The Head of State has with immediate effect replaced North-Western Province Police Commanding officer, Hudson Namachila with Luapula Province Police Commissioner Elias Chushi.
President Lungu said this at State House yesterday during the swearing-in ceremony of Richard Mwanza as High Commissioner to Ghana, Joyce Kasosa as High Commissioner to Kenya, Pandwe Lubamba as Chief Policy Analyst for Project Implementation at State House and Chilije Nyirenda as Police Commissioner for Luapula Province.
“Let me take this opportunity to state that I am disappointed with the poor performance of Zambia Police in North-Western Province. They have not done enough to provide security in order to safeguard the gold deposits in the region. I have, therefore, transferred Luapula Province Police Commissioner Elias Chushi to North-Western and the commissioner for that region will come to Police Headquarters as his fate is being considered,” he emphasized.
President Lungu expressed optimism that the newly appointed Police Commissioner for Luapula Province Chilije Nyirenda will perform exceptionally well as he has been appointed on merit.
The Head of State pointed out that Mr Nyirenda who has been in the Police Service since 1984 will perform without doubt as he has vast experience.
And the Newly appointed Luapula Province Police Commissioner, Chilije Nyirenda pledged to offer total allegiance to the Republican President as well as defending the Republican constitution.
In December 2019 the government suspended all mining exploration activities in Kasenseli in Chief Chibwika’s area in Mwinilunga, North-Western Province.
Mines Minister, Richard Musukwa furthering announced that ZCCM-IH working together with the local people will oversee operations of the mine.
Is this a tribal thing lungu ?
The Head of State pointed out that Mr Nyirenda who has been in the Police Service since 1984 will perform without doubt as he has vast experience.
DON’T TELL THIS MAN HAS BEEN WORKING FOR 35 YEARS, AND BA YOUTH EXPECT TO FIND EMPLOYMENT, WHEN SOME BEINGS SEEM TO BE RETIREMENT PROOF. The longest have been in one organization is 5 years, am always looking for newer challenges to sharpen my medulla oblongata.
I can smell a rat here. Mr. Nyirenda is held in high esteem by the President and as such it is assumed that he will execute his duties exceptionally well. Based on this assumption, it will be impossible to see problems in Mr. Nyirenda because it will prove the President wrong.
Tribalism at it highest level .one bemba one easterners.worst government which I will never forget in my rest of my life.
Your Surname is important in Zambia. You need a Surname from a certain block to be appointed to any position. The rest of us will remain feeding on the One Zambia One Nation Empty Rhetoric! You mean there are no Northwesterners who qualify to be appointed to those positions? Just take interest and check how Eastern names have taken the Lion’s share of appointments everywhere. Nangu tapasoswa, is this fair? This is selfishness and Tribalism of pernicious proportions! Maybe they want to provoke other tribes. Only time will tell.
Fired for what? Anyway, ilyashi liikaaya bosses….! Each dog has its own day. Time will tell.
Yaba, but lungu is a disaster for Zambia, very insensitive , very corrupt and the biggest tribal thug you will ever see in a high office.
All lungus professional life before plot one was based on being a facilitator for crooks.
Uyu e-ve ni kawalala mukalibe kuona, Zambia will take atleast 15 years to recover from his desicive tribalisim and corruption.
@Chikubabe. That’s not what it means brother. Don’t drag tribalism in everything you see has a bemba and Easterner in it. I have been in Zambian institutions and most of them are run by Southerners. Check UNZA and Levy for instance I can assure you 60% of management is Tonga. We don’t complain because them too are our brothers and sisters. That’s how a real brother should be.
I just hope you don’t put that segregation in your nuclear family as well.
@Chikubabe
Wako ni wako appointments….Easterners are the most tribalists….and you wonder why i call Lungu Bandit President….no wonder Tutwa Ngulube and Makebi Zulu are pushing for Lungu’s third term…eastern power….
If you don’t perform, you get the boot. It has nothing to do with tribe or name. Just like the mps in the province, they got the vote and have been absent since 2016-ordered not to work with GRZ by their ayatollah and supreme leader, sammy kainde. It happened even in Nangula ward in western province, people got tired of the non performing absent upnd candidate who won in 2016.
Kanjipusheko? So are provincial Police Chiefs also appointed (and dis-appointed) by the President? I said kanjipusheko – I don’t know.
Let’s try to show love to one another as we’re campaigning for one Zambia one nation.
Our names will hinder everything.
God will punish you one day .
Apa manje mwamuziba Yesu
You kept on insinuating that the president has been sick and now he comes in to show you that he is very much working and
Now you have changed the goal posts , you stop the sick issue now you have introduced the tribal thing !!
Kikikikiki keep on dreaming while 2021
Is just around the corner.
Party with no agenda kikikikiki with their brilliant president or is it Economic text book president?
Kikikikiki
A responsible person would be displeased with the whole police but he is only displeased with this one because of the gold!? Blatantly tribal appointments to increase/ secure looting of the gold. Who are you kidding? The docile people of Mwinilunga will probably just take this lying down. Anyway the chief who should be the watching out for the interest of his impoverished people of Kasenseli can’t seem to be bothered as he is getting his portion.
I don’t think the police failed myself in N-W province. PF flag waving thugs cannot be touched by the police. That’s wht they did in gold-mining areas. In Lusaka we still see ECL 2021 number plates and PF colours painted vehicles without number plates on the roads. Wht do the police do in Lusaka? Nothing. Wht Lungu done to police in Lusaka? Nothing.
3 things can be deduced from Edgar’s decision on Hudson Namachila, either he condones theft, or he doesn’t think properly or both. There’s no Zambian that can penetrate police security to go and mine gold in the quantities that have been reported unless he’s well-connected. Edgar’s knows who the criminals are, it’s not fair on ZSIS for him to pretend not to because we’ll think they’re not doing their job. He should’ve just acted decisively not this pretense. He’s deceiving us but we’re not surprised because he’s already on record having spurned investigations by state agencies on his Ministers. We’ll express our feelings through the ballot
Excellent decision boss. The situation in NW became untenable and as I advised last year there was need to cease all activity until order was restored. I believe this appointment is step in the right direction and hopefully activity will resume as normal. Kz
FIRE LUSAMBO AS WELL…,NA UYU ATI NDANI ZINA YAKE….KAIZER ZULU…..GODFRIDAH SUMAILI AND ABOLISH THE MINISTRY OF RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS OR WHATEVER IT IS CALLED.IT IS A WASTE OF TAX PAYERS MONEY!!!!!!!!!
This tribalism is treasonous!
you’ve done a great job by firing those who are not working instead they are busy fattening there own pockets and forget to serve the people of Zambia, they are embarrassing you your Excellency. Next week we shall report some more hypocrites from the similar institution who are failing to pay suppliers for more than 3 years reason being that you have not been funding them for rations.
J0nathan Mukula is just putting in place someone he can trust, as J0na needs campaign funds now that I.M.F “yafela pa NO”
Now see J0nathan & his daughter benefit 10 fold from these Gold reserves the Alpha & Omega of Pompwe’z & Ub0mb@ Mwib@la philosophy.
People of Northwestern province, now is the time to open your eyes,sharpen yo swords,as death is heading yo way. These thieves will rid anyone who is stopping them from stealing. Yo only protector of yo minerals ,who procted u against unregistered PF thug miners(sent by the president) has been transferred. Now u are on yo own to fight for what is yours.
Choas are going to North-Western province now, these criminals want to own most of thise gold mines and war ll start from there(even among themselves).
Tribal cleansing and elimination continues but we expect such things to happen brothers and sisters in Lungu’s government. It gets worse before it gets better, that is what I can tell you. Rejoice because peace and happiness shall return one day, tribalism and racism shall no longer be the order of the day. Even the doers will realize that the God of the the universe is the God oneness. We shall have another selfless Kaunda again. The pain is too much to bear but it is worth it. Lungu has done more damage than good.
Is it the president who appoints province command officers? Then what’s Kanganja’s job?
Next time he will be appointing the UTH malukula and the Katondo Street toilet kapitao! Awe sure Chagwa, kupusa uleke mambala iwe, atase!
@Zinc, you’re right! It is not tribal, but tribes from different ethnic groups should be put in positions of influence in a rationalistic way just as President Lungu has done.
@Adamson Mushala
You are just calling ECL tribal out of your hatred for him, but whether you like it or not, the decision is made for the betterment of Zambia, and particularly that of North-western Province.
“President Lungu expressed optimism that the newly appointed Police Commissioner for Luapula Province Chilije Nyirenda will perform exceptionally well as he has been appointed on merit”. This is what a true leader does, appointing on merit.
@Chikubabe.
Go to WorldVision Zambia and come back and tell us about the composition of management if you have no shame. Almost 90percent of management are Tongas. Visit Ministry of Chiefs and Traditional Affairs, you will thank me later
It is inbelievable to what is happening in this country even when many Zambians can not see and when you criticize it becomes a stupid opinion.
There is a thief called Lackson Sakala who is openly corrupt and even admits to say he is just the commissioner in eastern to make money but he isnt even transferred let alone fired. But this one because of name an excuse had to be found.