Woman strangles her baby
A 20-YEAR-OLD woman in Mafinga has been arrested for allegedly killing her newly born baby after giving birth.
Agnes Namutambo of Changalabantu village is alleged to have strangled the baby with a chitenge material which the police found wrapped around its neck.
Muchinga Province Commissioner of police, Joel Njase, explained that Namutambo’s husband, Moses Simukonda, 39, reported that his second wife had killed her baby.
According to the police who visited the scene, after killing the baby, the accused bundled the body in a sack which she hid in the bathing shelter.
“Brief facts of the matter are that
Namutambo had gone into a marriage with a one month old pregnancy which she had before marrying her current husband, but she was afraid of the consequences if the husband discovered the truth,” Mr Njase explained. He added that Namutambo seized the opportunity to kill her baby when her husband went to visit his first wife.
“The woman got married without the man noticing that she was already pregnant, therefore, after giving birth, she decided to kill the baby so he would not know that the baby was not his,” he narrated.
The family has since been advised to bury the body and mark the grave while Namutambo is in police custody and will appear in court soon.
Ms Mwape said feeder roads grading was one of the priorities among the projects expected to be undertaken.
In an interview, Ms Mwape said Mkushi being agriculture oriented district, feeder roads were important for farmers to transport inputs and farm produce to the market.
She noted that most of the feeder roads in the constituency had become impassable, hence the need for rehabilitating them.
Ms Mwape said if the situation remained unchecked, farmers would continue facing challenges in transportation of inputs, farm produce and other goods to their destinations.
She said it was for this reason that about K600, 000 would be reserved for opening up feeder roads and connecting them to the main roads.
“About K600, 000 from the K 1.6 million CDF for Mkushi constituency will be utilised on opening up feeder roads to farming communities, Mkushi being an agriculture area.
“Most of feeder roads are impassable, making it difficult for motor vehicles to drive through and a great challenge to both farmers and motorists,” she said.
Ms Mwape said since the council has the grader, authorities would take advantage of the earth-moving machine to grade all vital feeder roads in the 14 wards.
She added the funds would be used on projects to improve water supply to the people because water was life.
The 2018 CDF, she said, was used to accomplish stalled projects but this year authorities would focus on projects that could be completed in short period of time.