By MARTIN MUSUNKA –
THE traditional leadership in North-Western Province has appealed to President Edgar Lungu to facilitate the establishment of a university to improve the standard of education in the region.
Senior Chief Kanongesha of the Lunda people bemoaned the low levels of education of the people of North-Western Province and made a passionate appeal to President Lungu for the building of a university to enhance educational standards.
Senior Chief Kanongesha was speaking on behalf of chiefs in North-Western Province and added that the low levels of education of people in the area could be attributed to lack of higher institutions of learning, and the building of a university would help address the problem.
Chief Kanongesha said this at this year’s Lubinda Ntongo ceremony of the Kaonde people at Chief Mumena’s Palace in Solwezi over the weekend.
He said the province deserved a better health institution and appealed for a hospital which would serve the needs of the entire population in the province.
The traditional leader, who reiterated the support of the chiefs for President Lungu because of the passion he had for the province, said the road network also needed to be overhauled and spruced up, to make it easy for motorists and other road users.
“We are also asking that the provincial capital should be moved from Solwezi to Mufumbwe, which is a central location,” he said.
Gender Minister Nkandu Luo said she would deliver the requests made by the traditional leaders in North-Western Province, as highlighted at the ceremony.
She said Government abhorred early marriages and tribalism as they were detrimental to the nation’s development.
Professor Luo said Zambians should desist from tribal talk as it had no room in the Zambian society because of inter-marriages, which made it possible for people to co-exist.
She said Zambians should always preach love, peace and unity for the development of the country and reject people that were bent on promoting tribalism, which can easily ignite civil war.
Provincial Minister Dawson Kafwaya said that members of Parliament in the province have unanimously supported the stance taken by chiefs to have the provincial capital shifted from Solwezi to Mufumbwe.
“As area MPs, we are in total agreement with our chiefs in the province that the provincial capital be moved from Solwezi to Mufumbwe and leave Solwezi as the mining town,” Mr Kafwaya said.- Story courtesy of SUMA SYSTEMS.