WE cannot continue preserving the bushes and the animals while people continue suffering hence mining in the lower Zambezi will start after the rains, Feira Member of Parliament Emmanuel Tembo has said.Mr Tembo said in an interview that it was high time Zambians started looking at what worked for them and cut issues of wanting to fulfill obligations of certain international instruments which the country was mostly forced to sign to get aid from certain countries.He said he did not agree with stakeholders who were calling for the protection of the lives of the animals because people came first and ensuring that they are well taken care of was a priority.Mr Tembo said his priority was to ensure that he protects the people of his constituency whose lives would be changed once mining activities in the lower Zambezi started. “What is important now is that we need to look at our own survival and not the […]
Mining in Lower Zambezi to start after rains
