Lusaka Mayor, Chilando Chitangala says the local authority is determined to ensure that the capital city is responsive to combating the effects of climate change by way of promoting initiatives that stimulate a green environment.
Ms. Chitangala says her initiative dubbed ‘Plant a Tree with the Mayor’ is targeting to plant 300,000 trees in Lusaka by the end of the year and 1,600 trees have so far been planted.
“I will always support any initiative meant to promote the keep Zambia clean, green, and healthy campaign. Let us own this campaign by our environment clean green, and healthy,” said the Mayor.
Ms. Chitangala expressed happiness that a number of stakeholders had come on board to support the initiative citing Deloitte Touche and partners.
She said issues of climate change should be of concern to every Zambian and the solutions must sought to address the problem.
“It is important for us as a country to care for the environment and come on board. My office in this vain has engaged everyone including ward development committees, schools, teachers and households so that Lusaka becomes a green city by the year 2030,” Ms Chitangala said.
The Mayor appealed to surrounding districts in Lusaka province to emulate the campaign so that the trees are planted all over the country and it becomes environmentally sound.
Ms Chitangala was speaking in Lusaka today during a tree planting activity held along Mosi-O-tunya road in woodlands area.
And Deloitte Managing Partner, Humphrey Mulenga stated that the accounting firm which has been in Zambia since the 1930s is happy that initiatives to restore the environmental outlook of Lusaka were been embarked upon.
“We as Deloitte will always seek to make impact that matters in the provision of our professional services to our wide range offing client base across many industries,’’ Mr Mulenga intonated.
Mr Mulenga said partnering with Lusaka City Council was part of who the company is about and is happy it was addressing the issues of climate change in the city.
“Mitigating the impact of climate of change is a monumental task. We know progress is possible if we act collectively. As a company we believe that business cannot succeed if society fails,’’ he said.
The accounting firm said it was committed to empowering the local communities and engaging in responsible climate choices that are relevant to Africa.
Mr. Mulenga pointed out that tree planting is one of the most powerful interventions that can have a positive impact on the environment.
“it is our hope that the tree planting exercise in Lusaka will go a long way in supporting the mandate of the council to address issues of deforestation and other challenges,’’ he stated.
Please when you plant the trees ensure that trees are not choked by the plastics and other rubbish strewn all over the city. We need to sensitise our communities to ensure that we also learn to keep the environment clean. Trees alone will not clean our blocked drainage due to the rubbish thrown everywhere.
There you go! The sensible thing to do! Let’s all plant a tree, shrubs, grass – anything to cover the ground and improve air quality. Good!
#plant a tree please!
Save Forest 27 instead of planting trees in places where they can’t survive. Those trees will soon wither
Sexy woman. I remember that one of my parties she attended in 2015 at my private mansion in makeni. Brings back good memories
HOW ABOUT CLEANING THE CITY LUSAKA IS EXTREMELY DIRTY
That will be very hard after PF turned Lusaka into a roadside market with trash and filth everywhere.But its doable with tough rules and hard work..
Remove the vendors from the streets, don’t be afraid. They need to be moved to designated trading places such as markets. Also don’t forget to move the car dealers opposite freedom statue and other areas. Look at the value of the cars they sell. Why can’t they all get together and rent out yards and pay rent. How do other car sellers renting property survive?Don’t treat them with kids gloves. This habit of free things should stop.
She’s like the rest of them………
Won’t succeed……..
Talking about easy things to do……..
Deal with the rubbish first……
First deal with the garbage and flooding due no drainage situations ………
Going for the esay photo opportunities……..
Start with cleanliness first before you go environmental. It’s still unacceptable to have a filthy environmentally friendly city. Seek help for ideas to transform our city. We need innovative ways of capturing that rain water during floods and utilising the resource during dry seasons. Turn filth from food waste in markets into manure then plant greenery. Good idea though.
Cleaning the city comes first, before you start talking about planting trees. Please make it a priority to clean the city and keep it clean.
Please stop these cosmetic gestures leave them to the silly boy Miles Sampa who was only planting trees on Face-book go and check on his trees now…you will find they are no more. Madame Mayor you have to be proposing tangible policies if you want to save the environment in Lusaka go and stop construction in Forest 27.
Chendabusiku @1, stop beating about the bush. The solution to throwing rubbish about is to impose a fine on the culprits. Li Kuan Yu in Singapore stopped his people spitting in public and throwing chewed gum in litter bins by banning chewing gum altogether in his country. Nice to see that the mayor is leading an initiative to plant trees (not all tree species are suitable) in Lusaka. By now a few hv already been stolen.
There will be no lasting solution to the indiscriminate garbage disposal with mass education of Zambians…………
Only a classroom subject at primary school is the best chance of this………
……….Without mass education
I once referred to Singapore in https://www.lusakatimes.com/2021/11/29/ndola-mayor-urges-residents-to-clear-up-drainages-to-prevent-flooding/ But most readers where not happy. I think Singapore serves as a good model for a number of poor countries
Impossible task when you realize that Zambians are really dirty people who throw their trash everywhere, and the councils never bother to clean anything up!
Lusaka City Counsellors must be pro-active in serving the people of Lusaka. Residents of Lusaka are being exploited by the Council which increases rates on residential properties to extreme high rates. Yet residents still have to pay land rates to the Ministry of Lands. The land rates the Council is charging do NOT correspond to services provided taking into account that Lusaka residents also (1) pay Zesco for power and (2) pay Lusaka Water & Sewage Company (another exploitative agency). These are the real issues that the Lusaka City Council must address.
@Kaizar Zulu (Am sure you’re an alias) – You have nothing sensible to offer.
Go and destroy forest 27 afer that come and clean the city no more car vendors who use some of these points of sale to rec the neighborhood by day and steal at night…employ more city council police….and garbage collectors …get traffic wardens to check illegal parking….introduce city pollution tax on all motor vehicles collect these through Ratsa or Insurance companies, reintroduce dog licenses…collect burial tax….then put all this money to good use…reclaim your parks that were stolen from you….gun licenses, so much money out there…
There is a lot of of garbage all over the city and the best you can do is plant trees that will obviously be choked by the same toxic garbage lying around the city. Be proactive LCC and stop being reactive, it was just yesterday when we had a cholera outbreak because of your reluctance to remove garbage from the city. How can you even live comfortably in such an environment and claim that you are determined to transform the city into the environmentally friendly city. Pull up your socks LCC before it’s too late and we have another public health crisis on our hands as a country.
Cleaning the city first will determine the initial standard you wish the city will be maintained at and improving there upon. Careful choice of vegetation or is it only trees to be planted should be taken into consideration for plant habits and where they be planted at as that’s for their lifetime, Consideration of root structure for example should be a MUST and then what by laws would be in place to safeguard trees from being stripped of branches for alternative use to vehicle breakdown warning “triangles.” However a good start as also from comments above the public seem to favor the plan.