ZAMBIANS must not get too overwhelmed with the ravaging coronavirus (Covid-19), but appropriate some focus and concentration to other equally pressing matters such as the devastating floods that have bombarded about 1.5 million citizens.Obviously, Covid-19 is the greatest challenge at the moment, spanning beyond Zambia’s frontiers and overwhelming the west, United Kingdom and the world’s most powerful country, the United States of America.But Government and its citizens here must not lose focus of other woes and pressing matters, lest even small problems blossom to insurmountable levels.The stark reality is that thousands of houses in Muchinga, Northern, Luapula, Eastern and North-Western provinces are drenched in water while others have collapsed, leaving grieving citizens homeless.Most of Chilubi Island has been flooded with water reaching window-level so is part of Samfya district after Lake Bangweulu spread out with high water levels.Lunga, which consists of Islands, is equally inundated.Chambeshi River between Northern and Muchinga provinces has caused havoc after […]
Never lose focus
