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Chibbonta warns against selecting 'weak' chiefs

Chibbonta warns against selecting 'weak' chiefs
By Edwin Mbulo in Kazungula
Tuesday September 02, 2008 [04:00]

THE House of Chiefs will not recommend any weak person to become chief, Clerk of the House of Chiefs Coillard Chibbonta has warned. In an interview in Musokotwane village on Sunday after a meeting to resolve the wrangle over who becomes chief Musokotwane among Zambia Sugar co-operate affairs manager Lovemore Sievu, Izon Musokotwane and Chrispine Mulwani Mwiya, Chibbonta said he had requested all council secretaries in the country to provide the House of Chiefs with family trees of royal families.

"We need a chief who is not corrupt. Chiefs in the country handle very important matters such as land. Here in chief Musokotwane, you have a lot of trees and if you get a weak person, he can give an investor who will end up cutting all the trees for timber. We shall not encourage that. We want an honest person and we shall not recommend any weak person to be chief," he said.

Chibbonta said where there was no chief, there was no guidance.
"We are Africans and where there is no chief I don't know how I would call it. This is a silly arrangement; you can't continue having no chief, even animals have a leader in a herd," he said.

"We have asked council secretaries to provide us with family trees. This will take a bit of time but the government or House of Chiefs cannot prepare the family trees as there are sometimes more than 10, but we also will get back to our files because in most cases people in royal families know who should be a chief," he said

Chibbonta said that rotations among family tree could be good as well as bad, depending on the type of a person being selected.

Chibbonta said the Musokotwane family wasted a lot of money and time by going to court over who should ascend to the throne last year as the House of Chiefs had not recommended anyone to be chief.

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