Ministry of Local Government Permanent Secretary Ed Chomba says country systems need to be strengthened such that they should equally be used by cooperating partners.
Bishop Chomba says President Edgar Lungu has since emphasized that government sectors should work in clusters where councils should be vibrant and entry points for all sectors to ride on in their quest for service delivery.
The Permanent Secretary said this when he addressed Heads of Government departments in Sukongo District in Western Province in the accompaniment of Western Province Permanent Secretary Danny Bukali and some senior government officials.
Bishop Chomba said Zambia still has a small population of about eighteen million compared to other countries that have cities with bigger populations hence cannot fail in terms of development if properly driven by the local authorities.
Bishop Chomba said this can only be done and achieved through decentralization where councils need to govern themselves properly.
He also disclosed that all local authorities in the country are current with equalization funds from January to date as well as current with Constituency Development Funds (CDF) of which each constituency has received one point six million kwacha (K1.6M).
Bishop Chomba added that local authorities should think big of food banks other than anchoring on the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) sighting FRA started from the bible.
Bishop Chomba said the Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit (DMMU) should not be used for clonal all the time but local authority need to plan and quantify for disasters as it was embarrassing to ask for aid from cooperating partners all the time through supporting the country systems.
Earlier. Sikongo District Administrative Officer Munalula Mufaya requested for specialized mathematics teachers, up-grading of the internet and relief food saying some people were surviving on roots of trees and fruits in Sikongo District.
Later, Local Government Permanent Secretary Dr. Bishop Ed Chomba and Western Province Permanent Secretary Danny Bukali inspected the 5 out 8 kilometres done gravel feeder road by China Zong contractor from Sikongo Boma to the Cashew Infrastructure Development Project (CIDP) plant.
Laugh out loud. Revenue base is at its weakest and they want to strengthen local government! Tell it to the marines because the navy won’t hv it.
Local Authorities can’t be strengthened unless you give them back the functions that have been taken away. Why should contracts for township roads be awarded from Lusaka? Even traffic lights are being done and controlled from Lusaka! If Councils were given an opportunity to run their affairs it could have been very unlikely that all of them could’ve bought wheelbarrows at $1.M each. Councilors are instructed by Party cadres whom to give land and whom not to. Trading places are controlled by PF cadres and who dare says anything is suspended by a Minister that doesn’t look normal. Is Charles Banda okay up there? I doubt
Does PS Edwardo Chombela understand the meaning of a small population, one could be out of his mind to state that 18million plus Zambian population as small. I don’t think this PS understand local governance issues. may the powers that be investigate the rumours that some PF cadres are charging innocent citizens K20 to skip queues in order to register quickly.
This is another corrupt moron of a cadre in civil service who is shamelessly called a Bishop when he has no principles…you talk of decentralisation yet you are meddling in council affairs everyday you suspended Mayors of Lusaka and Kitwe for 3 months just to show them you could do it but didnt even come up with any evidence.
Excellent stuff. I totally agree. As usual we have the complaining upnd diasporan dogs who only know how to criticize.
Tarino and your fellow empty heads can you tell us who you support and what alternative policy, the person or people you think should rule this nation, will implement ?
Since tarino has no answer he will shy away and say he doesn’t respond to imposters. This is how f00lish this small boy is. We know he is a upnd supporter by default due to his tribe but even he can’t bring himself to openly support them because he knows they offer nothing tangible. Ubupuba weka weka fye
What kind of work will these sttupid idyots like Chomba do after August 2021 when their useless PF expires?
Our wora is just ok
In April this year, a renowned university abroad reached out to us, complaining that a senior Zambian government official was denting the institution’s image by claiming that he was a graduate from there when in fact not. This was regarding Dr Bishop Chomba who, apparently, is not actually a doctor as he claims to be on the CV that he submitted to government before being appointed.
His official biography says, “Dr. Bishop Ed Chomba is a double PhD Holder from Oxford University (Trinity College) in England and Princeton University (Woodrow Wilson) USA, who practices law in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and British Isles, except Scotland, and also in the East Coat and Mid-West of USA.”
So, we took the trouble of investigating the matter. We contacted all the universities and…
One of the responses from the universities read: “We have been asked about Mr Chomba’s credentials on previous occasions. We have no record of his ever having been registered as a student at Trinity College, Oxford. I am copying this reply to my colleagues at the University’s Research Degrees Office, who will be able to confirm that he has not been awarded any doctoral degree from the University. The College does not hold this information. The digitised College records that have been checked go back to the 1930s.”
After gathering enough proof and upon being satisfied that the learned doctor was not as learned, we approached him with facts and challenged him to explain why his universities were disowning him. His answer was simply that the universities he went to could not give out…
he went to could not give out information about his qualifications to a third party, especially the media. He added that his enemies were using us to destroy him.
This investigation exposed Bishop Chomba as having fake qualifications and there were only two things that were supposed to happen next. Either he was going to take us to court for libel and defamation, or the President was going to relieve him of his duties. None of the above happened. The man is still drinking ‘warta’ with the Head of State and enjoying his salary earned by false pretence. Bishop Chomba told a few of his friends to complain to us that we were being unfair on him, but he had no guts to go to court to protect his integrity, why? Because he knows the truth.
Madam Wina, is Bishop Chomba also qualified?
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His answer was simply that the universities he went to could not give out information about his qualifications to a third party, especially the media…..his enemies were using us to destroy him.
This investigation exposed Chomba as having fake qualifications and there were only two things that were supposed to happen next. Either he was going to take us to court for libel and defamation, or the President was going to relieve him of his duties. None of the above happened. The man is still drinking ‘warta’ with the Head of State and enjoying his salary earned by false pretence. Chomba told a few of his friends to complain to us that we were being unfair on him, but he had no guts to go to court to protect his integrity, why? Because he knows the truth.
Madam Wina, is Bishop Chomba also…
Madam Wina, is Bishop Chomba also qualified?
By Diggers Editor,
9th November 2018
Systems already exist in each Council. Please read your Acts and other Statutory Instruments. You are making yourself look very dull as a PS