Lusambo calls on Lungu to work with Lambas

MMD National Youth Secretary Bowman Lusambo

MMD National Youth Secretary Bowman Lusambo has called on President Edgar Lungu to explore ways of constructively engaging the Lamba Royal Establishment with the aim of appointing more Lambas in decision making positions.

Mr. Lusambo has told QFM News in a statement that the PF government has a duty to take development to all areas.

Mr. Lusambo believes that the PF government has an even greater duty to ensure that areas that contribute more to the country’s development such as Lamba land are prioritised when it comes to distribution of national resources.

Mr. Lusambo notes that for a very long time, Lambas have been in the peripheral of Zambia’s political and economic development and yet Lamba land is the most endowed place in Zambia.

He notes that what is baffling is that the Lamba speaking people in Mpongwe, Masaiti, Luanshya, Kalulushi, Maposa, Lufwanyama, Kitwe, Ndola and Chingola including Mufulira continue to live in abject poverty saying most parts of area is under-developed.

He says palaces for chiefs are in a deplorable state adding that the Chiefs have been reduced to beggars in their own chiefdoms.

He adds that women continue to die in child birth because of scarcity of health care facilities.

Mr. Lusambo says some of the world’s biggest mining firms such as Glencore AG, CNFC and Vedanta including Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote, all operate in Lamba land but with little or nothing benefits for the local people.

He says the people should take President Lungu’s visit to the area to make him aware that the time for the Lamba land economic renaissance has now come.