CEC signs land agreement with N/West chiefs
By David Chongo in Solwezi
Sun 26 Dec. 2010, 04:00 CAT
COPPERBELT Energy Corporation (CEC) and two chiefs in North Western Province have signed an agreement for the release of
15, 000 hectares of land toward the construction of the
Kabompo Hydro-power station beginning in 2011.
The agreement which was due on Tuesday between CEC and senior chief Musele of Solwezi and senior chief Sailunga in Mwinilunga was finally appended to on Wednesday after delays following some concerns raised by the traditional leaders.
And North Western Province permanent secretary Daniel Bowasi said the region was poised for unprecedented development following the proposed investment in power generation.
Bowasi said energy was extremely important to the region as high-energy demanding industries set up in the area.
“Energy is extremely important to our mines and is extremely important to the development of the entire province. This investment must benefit the people in which they operate. Kabompo will not be like the power projects in Southern Province where it passes the local people,” he said.
Bowasi said the government was putting emphasis on the generation of power in the region as it had great potential to alleviate the pressure on the existing power stations.
The project that would displace about 29 families around Kabompo Gorge and would cost $120 million is expected to generate 40-megawatt of electricity when it’s finally completed by 2015.
Labels: CEC, CHIEF MUSELE, CHIEF SAILUNGA, DANIEL BOWASI, ENERGY, NORTHWESTERN PROVINCE
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‘Don’t politicise Sata’s visit to chief Sailunga’
By George Chellah
Thu 01 Apr. 2010, 04:01 CAT
CHIEF Nyakaseya of Mwinilunga district yesterday said PF leader Michael Sata’s visit to senior chief Sailunga, who was admitted in the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) should not be politicised.
Commenting on the criticism against Sata from certain quarters of society including House of Chiefs chairperson chief Madzimawe, chief Nyakaseya said there was need for unity in the country.
“What I have observed is that the president Sata wanted to meet his father senior chief Sailunga. He went there to see his father. People have translated the visiting as if he was fooling the chief. According to my observation, I want you to write this issue so that we need peace and harmony because if Mr Sata didn’t know that senior chief Sailunga is his father, he wouldn’t have gone there to visit him. But he had that, that he is my parent I have to go there,” chief Nyakaseya said.
“As a son I would just be right to let them embrace each other and say comfort words to my father. He went there as a family issue. That’s why even if those who published those words in any newspaper… they made a mistake because he went to visit his father. In Lusaka there are many people, how many have gone to visit the chief? No one…but he tried to go and visit his father.
“I chief Nyakaseya, I am saying let the Lundas be cool and see to it that we are all…Bembas, Lundas, Nyanjas, we are One Zambia, One Nation. We have that right to sit down. We don’t want policking…Let them not politicise Sata’s visit, let them understand that the son went to his parents. If there is a problem the parent can complain that ‘my son what you did was wrong’ but if the parent hasn’t complained why is the public coming in now?”
He observed that in the current generation people took things for granted.
“They just want to tarnish other people’s names. It’s all hatred! If me chief Nyakaseya I fall sick and, I come in Lusaka won’t you visit me? Now if you visit me then you have made a mistake? Please tell the nation we have to love each other, we put differences aside. We see how we are going to develop Zambia and love should be there. We want harmony and peace than tarnishing other names,” chief Nyakaseya said.
He also pleaded with the government to work on the Mwinilunga-Jimbe road.
“We are begging the government to assist us so that this road be tarred. And Kaleni Mission Hospital, it’s a big hospital we don’t have a mortuary, people are suffering please,” said chief Nyakaseya.
On Monday, chief Madzimawe was quoted by the state media as having condemned Sata for touching senior chief Sailunga’s head when he visited him in UTH.
Similar views were expressed by former national chairperson for the Lunda Cultural Association Newton Samakai and Solwezi District Nsakwa Ya Ba Kaonde Cultural Association vice-secretary Richard Mufwabule.
The trio, were reacting to a picture that appeared in The Post newspaper on March 22, 2010, showing Sata touching the head of chief Sailunga when he visited him in UTH.
Labels: CHIEF NYAKASEYA, CHIEF SAILUNGA, SATA
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