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SANFROSSA MANYINDA writes @sunzambian
GOVERNMENT has flagged off the allocation of plots to flood victims in Kitwe at the old council farms in across the Kafue River.Beneficiaries have since been advised to make the active by taking up in agricultural activities.About 573 houses in Ipusukilo, Mulenga, Musonda and Bulangililo townships collapsed due to floods after a heavy downpour in the previous rainy season.The affected families are currently housed at Hellen Kaunda Secondary school where tents have been erected for them.Copperbelt Permanent, Bright Nundwe, advised the settlers not to make the place dormant but make agriculture the main story of the area.“Government does not find pleasure in seeing people languishing across the country that is why we have decided to find the victims a permanent place to stay,” he said.Mr Nundwe said that Government had no component of segregation but that it cared for everyone regardless of their age, physical abilities as well as status in society.The Permanent Secretary advised the beneficiaries to respect and protect one another as they took up their new place.He stressed the need for a positive input from them in order to make it easy for Government to continue working.He assured that Government would from time to time be checking on them to ensure that they were settling down well.And Kitwe District Commissioner Chileshe Bweupe said that what Government was doing spoke volumes and hoped that the project would commence before the onset of the rain.“We hope that we will be able to give the people land with title unlike letting them live the way they were living where they came from” he said.
He said that the earlier the project was completed the better, as Government was spending a lot of money to take care of the needs of the affected families.
