By SIMON MUNTEMBAZAMBIA has over the years been experiencing perennial floods due to poor residential planning, UPND president Hakainde Hichilema has observed.Mr. Hichilema has called for proper planning of settlements and residential areas to avoid the floods and destruction of houses and crops in an event of heavy rains.According to the UPND media team, Mr. Hichelema said this yesterday when he donated foodstuffs to victims of the Mumbwa floods.He attributed the calamity, which led to the death of a 21-year-old woman last weekend, to lack of proper planning and citing of residential areas.“How do you build dams upstream while build residential areas and settlements downstream. This is the result. We need to plan and unfortunately our government is failing to do that. We shall prioritise planning to avoid such calamities that result in casualties,” Mr. Hichilema said.Mr Hichilema said he decided to spend his New Year celebrations with people who were affected by the floods […]
HH blames floods on poor planning
