President Levy Mwanawasa  has hailed the People’s Republic of China for its good bilateral relations with Zambia.

President  Mwanawasa said Zambia and China enjoy good relations which are mutually beneficial to both countries.

Mr. Mwanawasa made the remarks when the Chinese military delegation lead by General
Deng Changyou  paid  a courtesy call on  him at  state  house.

He expressed optimistic that the delegation would have fruitful discussion with their Zambian counterparts.

Earlier Defence Minister George Mpombo  said the visit  was intended to cement the military ties between Zambia and China.

Mr. Mpombo  said  the cordial relations which President  Mwanawasa has been working
on with that the country should be enhanced.

He added that the delegation has come as a reciprocal to the earlier visit by former
Defence Minister Mundia Muliokela to that country.

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Lundazi central constituency member of parliament ,MP, Mkondo Lungu has appealed to the Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit, DMMU, under the office of the vice president to urgently send more relief food to Lundazi.

Mr. Lungu said the 860.5 metric tonnes of relief food sent to the area was inadequate due to widespread hunger in the valley.

Mr. Lungu who was accompanied by his Lumezi counterpart  Isaac Banda, made the appeal when he addressed DMMU committee members in Lundazi yesterday.

He said the purpose of the meeting was to get first hand information on the distribution of relief food in the district.

The MP also blamed the vulnerability assessment team from the office of the vice president for conducting vulnerability assessment exercise in November last year
without consulting local line ministries resulting in most hunger prone areas being
left-out in the report.

Mr. Lungu said out of 27 wards in the district, the vulnerability assessment team from Lusaka only selected 10 as eligible for relief food, a situation he described as unfortunate.

Speaking at the same meeting, Mr Nemiah Tembo who is co-ordinator for Wildlife Conservation Society, a lead NGO appointed by government to distribute relief food
in the 10 selected wards, said the exercise was almost complete despite inaccessible roads and washed away bridges.

Meanwhile, Lumezi MP Isaac Banda disclosed that government  allocated K6 billion in this year’s budget for patching up the dilapidated Lundazi-Chipata road while waiting for a donor to fund the complete overhaul of the road.

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Road Development Agency (RDA) Director Watson Ng’ambi and Mulenga Kapembwa an accountant have been arrested by Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) for attempting to obtain over K3.5 billion by false pretences.

DEC Public Relations and Press Liason Officer Rosten Chulu confirmed to ZANIS that
Watson Ng’ambi 42, the Director at RDA of plot 23617 Presidential Housing Initiative (PHI) in Lusaka and Mulenga Kapembwa 39 an accountant of 1369 off Palm Drive in
Chelston Lusaka have been arrested and charged with attempting to obtain money by
false pretences contrary to section 309 and 389 of 5the Penal Code CAP 87 of the
laws of Zambia.

Mr. Chulu said whilst acting jointly with others, the two instructed National Road Fund Agency to pay contractors Turner Construction Limited/BICON Zambia Limited and GM International Limited/Rankin Engineering Associates for the projects they are undertaking in Chingola, Ndola, Choma and Mazabuka respectively.

He said the accused with intent to defraud allegedly resubmitted copies of the already made advance payment thereby creating a double payment which is so far amounting to over K3. 5 billion.

In another development, 14 other Zambians have been arrested for unlawful trafficking in psychotropic substances weighing a total of 90.096kgs.

In Central province, the commission has arrested Brighton Jonathan Tembo 28 and Levis Munyika 29.

In the North-western and Eastern provinces, Brighton Katunda, Clever Mulenga, Yobe
Alikanjelo, Charles Banda, Mpande Lombe Charles Ziba and Okiseensio Lungu have been
arrested by the Commission.

And on the Copperbelt, the commission has arrested Fides Chisi, Christina Mambala, Tom Tembo, Kabwe Chilambwe and Stanley Bamba all for trafficking in cannabis.

Mr.Chulu said all the suspects will appear in court soon.

Meanwhile, the commission has since cautioned Zambians to desist from engaging themselves in the unlawful cultivation and trafficking of psychotropic substances
and Money Laundering activities.

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President Mwanawasa has sent a congratulatory message to his Zimbabwean counterpart Robert Mugabe on that country’s national day which falls on 18 th April 2007.

Mr Mwanawasa has also sent a congratulatory message to queen Margret(II) of Denmark
on the occassion of her birthday.

This is contained in a statement released to ZANIS in Lusaka today by Special Assistant to the President for Press and Public Relations John Musukuma.

In his message to President Mugabe, President Mwanawasa said Zambia and Zimbabwe
enjoy warm and cordial relations at government level and between its peoples.

He said it is in this regard that the two countries look forward to the strenthening of the friendship and existing cooperation.

And in his message to Her Majesty Queen Margret (II) of Denmark, President Mwanawasa said Zambia ackmowleges the immense influemce Her Majesry has imparted on Denmark since ascention to the throne in 1992.

The President noted that the Danish government has continued to cooperate with
Zambia espeacilly in the transport, governance, education, water and sanitation sectors because of the warm bilatetal relations that exist between the two countries.

Mr Mwanawasa also wished the Queen comtinued personal good health and prosperity for the people of Denmark.

In onother development, President Mwanawasa has sent a message of condolences to the
President of Masagascar Marc Ravalomanana on the death of 88 people who perished in
cyclone Indlala.

‘On behalf of the Zambian people, the governemnt and on my  own behalf, I send
deepest condolences and sympathies to the people of madascar.’ said Ã…President
Mwanawasa.

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Opposition United Party for National Development (UPND)
President Hakainde Hichilema has called on Zambians to combine efforts if the fight for a new constitution has to be won.

Mr. Hichilema said Zambians should have a unity of purpose, if they are to contribute positively towards the country’s constitution making process.

The UPND leader was speaking in Lusaka today at a stakeholders’ consultative meeting organised by the Oasis Forum, a civil society grouping in the country.

He said Zambia needs a new constitution that will provide a solid platform for the country¨s economic and social development.

Mr. Hichilema stressed that the issue of a new constitution should not be used as a political tool but should be regarded as a conerstone in alleviating the nation’s social ills.

He said people are tired of Government’s promises that it is committed to the enactment of the new constitution, when its new road map was open ended.

He said that he and his party members strongly supported the cause for the adoption of the new constitution through the Constituent Assembly in the shortest possible time.

And a group of students from the Copperbelt University calling themselves the CC-2008 demanded the adoption of a new constitution by June 2008.

In their submission the student body also demanded that the Constituent Assembly should be put in place and must be given a legal effect by the National Assembly before the end of July this year.

The students submitted that the National Assembly must reconvene before the end of May specifically to enact the Constituent Assembly Bill into Law.

The Oasis Forum has devised a ten- point constitutional road map, which has a time frame of 71 weeks for the adoption of a new constitution.
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The Oasis Forum has been called upon to abide by the views of the majority in their quest for the expediency in the adoption of a new constitution.

Independent Churches of Zambia (ICOZ) Board Chairperson Reverend David Masupa said unless the Oasis Forum abides by the current views of the majority people who submitted to the Mung’omba Constitution Review Commission, they will be suppressing the will of the people.

Rev Masupa said in a statement availed to ZANIS in Lusaka today that ICOZ will respect views proposing the quick implementation of the new constitution that are in line with the views of the people who submitted to the CRC and the recommendations made in the final and draft constitution.

“It is for this reason that ICOZ would want to caution the so called stakeholders meetings of the civil society, political parties and the church that unless they abide by the current majority views on the 12,803 who submitted to the Mungomba CRC which was legally constituted by the republican President, they will be suppressing the will of the people,” he said.

He expressed sadness that the people calling for the enactment of the new constitution want to short cut the process without taking into consideration how the Mungomba CRC recommended the implementation.

Rev Masupa said there is need therefore, for all stakeholders calling for the speedy implementation of the new constitution to do so within the framework of the Mungomba CRC recommendations in order to respect the views of a cross section of Zambians who submitted to the CRC.

He urged Government to tell the nation how it will harmonise its roadmap to that of many organisations who have proposed alternative roadmaps.

The Oasis Forum yesterday came up with a revised 10-step roadmap for the adoption of a new republican constitution in 71 weeks.

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Sexual energy is the lust for life in all forms and at the center of this energy is sex desire. Sex desire is the most powerful of human desires and according to experts, men and women, when driven by this desire, develop imagination, courage, will-power, drive, and creative ability unknown to them during normal times. When driven by this emotion, men become gifted with a super power for action. The emotion of sex contains the secret of creative ability. The emotion of sex is an irresistible force, against which there can be no power to contain it. Castrate a man or beast, and you have removed the major source of action. For proof of this, experts say observe what happens to any animal after it has been castrated. A bull becomes as docile as a cow after it has been altered sexually. Sex alteration takes out of the male, whether man. or beast, all the desire to win that was in him. Sex alteration of the female has the same effect.

So strong and impelling is the desire for sexual contact that human beings freely run the risk of life and reputation to indulge it. Everybody knows that males are promiscuous and ferociously competitive when it comes to sex. Men’s competitiveness revolves around physical strength and dominance at the basic level, and moves up the scale to include attractiveness, intelligence, ingenuity, organisational power, leadership and wealth. Females, it has become clear, are equally promiscuous, if not more so, and have evolved an astounding array of creative strategies, employed both before and after copulation, to determine exactly who will father their offspring.

Research of biographies stretching over 2000 years show that men who had greatest achievement, accumulated great fortunes and achieved outstanding recognition in their fields had a high sex drive and were motivated by the influence of a woman.

Man’s greatest motivating force is his desire to please woman! The hunter who excelled during old days, before the dawn of civilization, did so, because of his desire to appear great in the eyes of woman. Man’s nature has not changed in this respect. The hunter of today brings home no skins or game of wild animals, but he indicates his desire for her favour by supplying designer clothes, latest cars, latest electronic gadgets, big mansions and wealth. Man has the same desire to please woman that he had before the dawn of civilization. The only thing that has changed, is his method of pleasing.

Men who accumulate large fortunes, and attain to great heights of power and fame, do so, mainly, to satisfy their desire to please women. Take women out of their lives, and great wealth would be useless to most men. It is this inherent desire of man to please woman, which gives woman the power to make or break a man.

The woman, who understands man’s nature and tactfully leverages it, need have no fear of competition from “husband snatching” women or sugar mummies. Men may be mighty giants with ferocious will-power when dealing with other men, but they are easily tamed by the women of their choice.

Most men will not admit that they are easily influenced by the women they prefer, because it is in the nature of the male to want to be recognized as the stronger of the species. Moreover, the intelligent woman recognizes this “manly trait” and very wisely makes no big deal about it.

If this is the case, one may ask why is it that our society considers men with high sex drive as cursed . The answer lies in tha fact that not all men with high sex drives know how to responsibly use this force. The sex drive force is like that of a river. A river may be dammed, and its water controlled for a time, but eventually, it will force an outlet. The same is true of the sex drive. It may be submerged and controlled for a time, but its very nature causes it to be ever seeking means of expression. If it is not channeled into some creative effort it will find a less worthy outlet like sleeping around with everyone they are attracted to. And in this age of HIV/AIDS, not a good idea.

In part 2 we will look at how to channel this energy to worthy cause.