Malembeka tips govt on culture
EConstituency. "We have seen the works of the Church to help the govern government. The UCZ has done a lot of construction in schools and the health sector. Kabushi Constituency has not been left out by the Church," he said. Mr Lusambo said there was need for Government and the Church to continue working to together and uplifting the living standards of the people.
"We are serving the same peo people on different levels.
So, there is no separa separation between the Church and Government." he said.
Mr Lusambo urged
PTHE relationship between Government and the Church should never be diluted by anyone, says Kabushi Member of Parliament Bowman Lusambo. Mr Lusambo said the Church played a key role in uplifting the living standards of the people as well as in other social activities. He said this during a fundraising service for St Paul's United Church of Zambia in Masala Township in Kabushi
the residents of Ndola who attended the church service to be patriotic.
St Paul's UCZ Masala Main Church reverend-in-charge Achan Sinkala called on Government to aid the church's men's ministry as it had many issues.
Rev Sinkala asked Government to help with the completion of an ablution block which was 66 percent near completion.
"We don't have an ablution block at this church. What we have is a sorry site.
It poses a challenge to us. We tried to connect water to it, but the pressure of water could not be sustained," he said. GOVERNMENT should consider rapid depletion of nature and traditional moral values as it takes development to all parts of the country, Chieftainess Malembeka of the Lamba people of Mpongwe has said.
Chieftainess Malembeka said Government should ensure the development projects it intended to implement had very little or no influence on the welfare of unsuspecting members of the beneficiary communities.
She was speaking during the Kwilimuka traditional ceremony performed to raise the spirits of the dead.
The ceremony is undertaken by the chieftainess as she is believed to be the direct intermediary between the living and the dead.
She said there was need for traditions to be respected if the country was to be morally upright and enjoy peace and unity.
Chieftainess Malembeka said wild animals had been lost as they had been driven to national parks, game management areas, zoos and private game parks leaving the Copperbelt only with diminishing forests and rivers.
She urged all Zambians to be proud of their traditional values. Chieftainess Malembeka said it was through the traditional ceremonies that ancestral spirits reminded people of who they were.
"Be focused if you are to learn more of what you have seen and heard to consolidate your traditional strength," she said.
The Chieftainess urged Government to endorse chieftaincy in its policies to embrace and strengthen the existence of tradition.
"It is our desire that Government, which holds the key to social change directly through various institutions, builds the socio-economic capacities in tandem with custodians of tradition, the chiefs,” she said. Chieftainess Malembeka said Ubufumu (chieftaincy) to be introduced in all curricular at all levels of education for continuity and respect of tradition.
And speaking as a son of the Lambaland, Sturdy Mwale advised all the 15 chiefs on the Copperbelt to be united.
Mr Mwale advised the people of the land not to promote politics that divided them but instead be united.
Copperbelt Minister Japhen Mwakalombe, in a speech read by Minister of Sports, Youth and Child Development Emmanuel Mulenga, said President Edgar Lungu had contributed 200 pockets of cement towards the hosting of the traditional ceremony.
The ceremony was attended by a good number of government officials and chiefs from the Lambaland and other areas.
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