Fri, 03 Mar 2017 11:09:20 +0000 By ROGERS KALERO MORE than 500 peasant farmers in Sand Cells area of Kitwe’s Itimpi ward have been cut off following the submerging of the only bridge on Mwambashi stream due to the heavy rains in the last two weeks. Some farmers in the area told the Daily Nation that the bridge got submerged because it was very low. They were now asking authorities to construct a much higher bridge on the same stream to normalise their movement. An on the spot check by ward councillor Mwaya Mpasa revealed that the peasant farmers in the area were cut off as they were scared to cross the crocodile-infested stream where many people had been attacked and killed by the marauding reptiles. Ms Mpasa said it was dangerous for the peasant farmers and school children to cross the stream whose bridge had been submerged following heavy rains. “This bridge […]
