Away with House of Chiefs!

Dear Editor,

We thank God that Shoprite has ‘quarantined’ the South African cold meats due to risks of Listeriosis, a deadly disease which has already claimed more than 100 lives in South Africa. I now wish to urge my fellow Zambians to buy local meats because the quality is as good as the imported types. No wonder there are many diseases being reported in our hospitals, caused by eating contaminated food.

Disappointed Zambian Dear Editor,

IN what language are these communications between chiefs and government officials written?

I hope they are not assumed to be understood in their English formats.

If you have some “honourable” members of Parliament who can barely understand Bills they pass, how do some of these chiefs who do not know how to write their own names be expected to understand complex land issues which even some “educated” subjects do not?

If the nation cannot afford a qualified Lawyer to explain what is at stake, to every chief whose land is about to be “leased” to wealthy foreigners, maybe the time has not come for the “scramble for Zambia” to begin.

Land ownership has historically evoked bloodshed globally.

Zambia is not going to be an exception to this rule, unless caution is exercised in what looks like an indecent rush by some greedy leaders to make deals at the expense of the illiterate subjects.

Let no one later turn round and say that they were not warned!

Just why do we give too much space to these people we call chiefs?

All land belongs to the State and chiefs should not give us unnecessary sweat – chibe maningi.

Besides they just bring too much confusion among their subjects who do not know where to go when they get troubled by the same chiefs.

Let us make them irrelevant for now if not forever. I hope they will not cast a spell on me for saying all this.

Away with House of Chiefs. For some of us it is disaster!

Senior Citizens