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Dear Editor
THAT ZNBC, the national broadcaster, has decide to go for an ambitious project to air local drama series on TV1 is move welcome as it will promote local talent identification and promote Zambian artists in general.
However as a keen follower of drama and poetry I was at a loss of words when , watched the first series of Mtendere.
This is a play whose setting is supposedly in Mtendere Township, one of the high density compounds in Lusaka where crime is at its highest peak.
To this effect, a new officer in Charge is transferred from Chawama to go and bring sanity and peace to this compound where a notorious group of young boys and girls are terrorizing residents and so far a man was killed in cold blood.
A local watchman witnessed this gruesome murder but is afraid to inform the police fearing for his life too.
I wish to commend the author Mr Eric Kasoma for coming up with a creative piece, but still I am left wondering if the cast had time to research on the behaviour of the roles.
To begin with it is unruly for any police officer in real sense to argue with his superior right in his face.
I was left wondering what kind of a policeman is one who tells off his superior that he wears the uniform at the police station and not in the street and the boss is left with further reprimand.
The other officers follow suit by arguing with the boss that they can’t go out for operations as the station has no vehicle and the boss remains mute.
Had they carried out a research how officers behave, such unruly behaviour could not have shown its ugly head.
The *hetto boys are well dressed but alas they speak English instead of Chinyanja or Bemba, the languages common in Lusaka.
However, credit must go the Journalists as well as the watchman together with his wife for such an excellent act exposing their fear upon seeing a knife from one of the killers threatening to kill both should they tell the police.
All in all, it is piece worth watching
Big cheer to you Eric!! CHAKWIYA BORNFACE CHONGWE