Help COMESA inferno victims-UPPZ
ALL political party leaders should help victims of the COMESA inferno, says United Prosperous and Peace Zambia (UPPZ) president Charles Chanda. Mr Chanda said it was the responsibility of every leader to help the victims of misfortune in society. He said this when he donated more than 200 bags of mealie meal to victims of the inferno that swept over COMESA Market on Thursday night. “As leaders, we have a responsibility to a help people who are in need in our society,” Mr Chanda said. And Mr Chanda regretted that the fire department of the Lusaka City Council (LCC) failed to quench the fire which gutted the market. He said Government had invested in the fire engines which were supposed to avert such calamities, but to no avail as the local authority took long to respond. And some beneficiaries of the donation commended the UPPZ for coming up with an initiative of feeding the victims of the inferno. Ms Astridah Ngandu said in an interview that she was devastated after her goods worth K30, 000 were reduced to ashes. She said the mealie meal she had received from the UPPZ had come in handy because she literally had nothing to lean on. Another victim Elizabeth Nkole expressed gratitude that an opposition party had come up with an initiative of feeding the victims, of the COMESA fire. She said many leaders from the different political parties had visited the COMESA but none of them came up with an initiative of donating anything to the victims. Meanwhile, Mr Chanda has called on quick intervention by police to constitute investigation of what caused the fire. He said it was not normal that such a development had become a trend in the capital city.