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UPND asks police command to increase posts in Lusaka

UPND asks police command to increase posts in Lusaka
By Chibaula Silwamba
Saturday October 06, 2007 [04:00]

UPND president Hakainde Hichilema has asked the police command to increase the number of police posts in Lusaka townships to curb the rising crime levels and brutal murders. And Hichilema said the damaged Choma-Maamba road is likely to cut off Maamba from the rest of the country if it is not repaired urgently.

In a speech read on his behalf by party vice-president Richard Kapita to welcome United Liberal Party (ULP) members that defected to the UPND on Thursday, Hichilema expressed concern at the increasing crime rate in Lusaka.

“We call upon the government to upgrade residential areas such as Misisi, Chawama, George, Mandevu, Jack, Kuku and many other compounds in Zambia,” Hichilema said.

“By this we mean there is need to improve the provision of clean drinking water, the provision of tarred roads, street lighting and increase in the number of community police posts to curb the rising incidences of crime and brutal murders that we have been witnessing in our townships.”

He observed that women and children woke up early in the morning every day to queue up for water instead of doing business.
“This situation also impairs the girl child’s opportunity to progress at school,” he observed. “There is also an urgent need to improve garbage collection in our compounds so that we reduce the prevalence of cholera during the rainy season which has become an annual problem in Zambia.”

Hichilema also said Maamba risked being cut-off from the rest of the country if the damaged Choma-Maamba road would not be repaired before the onset of the rains.

“I just returned from senior chief Mweemba’s burial in Sinazongwe district and the Choma - Maamba road is in a deplorable state. With the onset of the rains, Maamba risks being cut off from the rest of the country,” Kapita said.

“This will affect the movement of not only traders and people in general but also the transportation of coal from Maamba Collieries, which is also operating below capacity.”

Hichilema urged the government to repair roads in the country before the onset of the rainy season to avoid them becoming impassable.

And ULP chairman for culture and arts, Sibote Sibote led 58 other members to rejoin the UNPD.

Labels: HAKAINDE HICHILEMA, POLICE, UPND

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