Tue, 12 Sep 2017 11:06:27 +0000
By Oscar Malipenga
ITEZHI-TEZHI residents have been warned that they will continue to wallow in abject poverty if they continue to vote for UPND candidates who have openly refused to work with the Patriotic Front (PF) government.
The warning was issued in Itezhi-Tezhi yesterday by Vice President Inonge Wina who castigated opposition members of Parliament for getting salaries without lobbying government on behalf of their people to bring them development.
The Vice President was speaking at a public meeting in Kanzwa to drum up support for PF Itezhi-Tezhi council chairperson aspiring candidate Namakau Kaingu ahead of the council chairperson by election.
The Vice President announced that her government has plans to build a modern airport in Itezhi-Tezhi to attract tourists.
She said Itezhi-Tezhi had a potential for tourism growth hence government’s plans to build a new airport.
Ms Wina said Itezhi-Tezhi would benefit from 94 telecommunication towers procured by government for Central Province.
She said in future government would consider empowering youths with canoes to venture into aquaculture.
Mrs Wina said her government had a lot of youth and women empowerment programmes which Itezhi-Tezhi residents were not benefitting because their MP was not lobbying for them as he had openly refused to have anything to do with the PF government.
The Vice President also highlighted the animal-people conflict faced in the area which had resulted in the death of human beings.
Ms.Wina urged the electorate to vote for Namakau Kaingu who was one of them and lived among them.
And Justice Minister Given Lubinda informed the Ila-speaking people of Itezhi-Tezhi that the Armageddon which was promised by UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema before the general came to pass immediately President Edgar Lungu was sworn in.
He, said Mr Hichilema could never be compared to late Anderson Mazoka or late Michael Sata because the duo never instigated Armageddon whenever they lost an election throughout their political careers.
Meanwhile, Health minister Dr Chitalu Chilufya has promised Itezhi-Tezhi residents a new modern general hospital because the current district hospital was slowly becoming small due to the growing population.
Meanwhile, Minister in the Office of the Vice President Sylvia Chalikosa has warned Itezhi-Tezhi residents against entertaining lies propagated by UPND that PF was not taking Zambia forward in development.
