Mon, 20 Feb 2017 09:21:42 +0000 By MAILESI BANDA THE Lusaka City Council (LCC) has approved the engagement of 120 temporal workers to slash grass around the Leopards Hill, Chunga and Chingwele public cemeteries in the city. LCC public relations manager, Habeenzu Mulunda, said 60 would work on the Leopard’s Hill gravesite while Chingwele and Chunga will have 30 each. Reacting to an appeal from mourners at the Leopards Hill that the local authority should maintain the cemeteries, Mr. Mulunda said the council slashed grass around the graves once every year. Last week mourners at Lusaka’s Leopards Hill cemetery appealed to Lusaka City Council to hire workers to clean the cemetery. Speaking in an interview with the Daily Nation, Stella Lubona of Bauleni compound said the state of the graves especially during the rainy season was unbearable. Mrs. Lubona said the bushes surrounding the graves were now havens for snakes that would one day attack […]
