Shiwan'gandu Constituency Development Forum

CDF TAKING DEVELOPMENT TO EVERY CORNER OF ZAMBIA.

Shiwang'andu Town Council

Kantimba Rural Health Post (Nkulungwe Ward).
- Clinic
- Staff house
- Ablution block
- Placenta pit
- Incinerator and
- Water scheme (Solar powered borehole).

Status 50%

CDF TAKING DEVELOPMENT TO EVERY CORNER OF ZAMBIA.

Shiwang'andu Town Council

Mukungwa Rural Health Post (Kulamwele Ward).
- Clinic
- Staff house
- Ablution block
- Placenta pit
- Incinerator and
- Water scheme (Solar powered borehole).

Status 35%.

CDF TAKING DEVELOPMENT TO EVERY CORNER OF ZAMBIA.

Shiwang'andu Town Council

Kalikiti Girls Dormitory (Chamusenga Ward).

Status 97%.

CDF TAKING DEVELOPMENT TO EVERY CORNER OF ZAMBIA.

Shiwang'andu Town Council

[📸]Chimbwese primary school 1 x 2 classroom block (Chamusenga Ward).

Status: Complete.

Before Vs After.

📸A Brand New Foton Tipper Truck bought using Funds from 2022 CDF, 20% Capital Grant.

On 21st September 2022, The Local Authority was in recipient of a circular from the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development for partial APPROVAL of 2022 Constituency Development Fund (CDF). Components approval was Community Development Projects, Empowerment Grants, Secondary school Boarding and Skills Development Bursary. This is accordance with Section 4 (c) of Constituency Development Fund (CDF) Act No. 11 of 2018.

Herein, contained the following;

1. No of recommended Secondary school learners..................................,71
2. No of recommended Skills Development learners..............................244
3. No of recommended Community Development Projects.....................24
4. No of recommended Empowerment Grants applicants.......................49

In view of the above, here is an UPDATE ON SECONDARY SCHOOL BOARDING AND SKILLS BURSARY.

Total of K125,000.00 paid for Secondary school learners (Kenneth Kaunda Technical school, Isoka Boys Technical school, Chinsali Girls Secondary school and Mpika Boys Secondary school) with 43 learners.

Skills Development Bursary, K541, 435.00 with 98 Students (Lukashya Trades Training Institute, Isoka Trades Training Institute, Nirvana Operators and Safety Acardemy and Mufulira Technical Training Institute.

Pictures of Students, Pupils, lectures, Teachers and Council staff during verification exercise.

ECL FOUNDATION OPERATIONALIZED.

SPEECH BY HIS EXCELLENCY, DR. EDGAR CHAGWA LUNGU, 6TH PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA AND CHAIRMAN OF THE EDGAR LUNGU FOUNDATION DELIVERED ON 4TH AUGUST, 2022 AT THE DONATION AND SIGINING OF MOU WITH UBUNTU ROYAL COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOR ORPHANS AND VULNERABLE CHILDREN IN CHIBOMBO, DISTRICT.

YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS CHIEFTAINESS MUNGULE, BOARD MEMBERS OF THE UBUNTU ROYAL HOMES FOR ORPHANS AND DISADVANTAGED, EDGAR LUNGU FOUNDATION MANAGEMENT AND STAFF ALL VILLAGE HEADMEN AND WOMEN PRESENT, GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS PRESENT RELIGIOUS LEADERS, ZONE LEADERS, MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY, DISTINGUISHED LADIES AND GENTLEMEN

Let me thank the people of Her Royal Highness Chieftainess Mungule’s chiefdom for remaining resolute to mitigate Social and Economic challenges through increased uptake of community-based interventions. To this effect the Edgar Lungu foundation is motivated to partner with the people of Chieftainess Mungule’s chiefdom through the Ubuntu Royal Home for Orphans and Disadvantaged in transforming lives through the provision of quality education, sustainable climate resilient Agriculture empowerment, enlightenment and Educate Social Behavioural Change Communication among our people.

Your Highness, we are grateful for welcoming the Edgar Lungu foundation in your chiefdom. This to us signifies your commitment to transform lives which resonates with our ethos as a foundation. Your Royal Highness “Twalumba Kapati” Your Royal Highness, the Edgar Lungu Foundation was founded on two focus areas which are transforming lives and promoting peace.

We shall endeavour to transform lives in our communities through the promotion of Climate Smart Agriculture and Value Addition initiatives including the Edgar Lungu Scholarship Fund. We believe that for societies to achieve success in various areas of life, there must be peace. Under this focus area, we shall labour to promote peace in homes, as the smallest unit of society believing that this will have a ripple effect across Zambia and Africa.

Allow me to extend my heartfelt congratulations to the Board of Ubuntu Royal Community School Orphans and Vulnerable Children and my dedicated team at Edgar Lungu Foundation who have made it possible for us to witness the donation handover and the signing of the MOU today, which will mark our long but satisfying journey to transform lives, educate and look after orphans and the vulnerable here in Chibombo and other districts across the country.

Having come from a very humble background myself, I know what most of these children without parents or those with parents who are struggling to provide for them go through each day. I feel deeply connected. But looking after orphans, vulnerable and other afflicted persons is our God-given responsibility as Christians.

The Scripture, in James Chapter 1 verse 27 says: “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world,” Allow me to share one story that moved my heart here at Ubuntu Royal Community School. It’s the story of Faith a child aged 7 who lost both her parents. Faith is HIV positive and lives with her 60-year-old guardian with no capacity to provide for her health and nutritional needs.

A young and ambitious child with a hope of one day becoming a doctor, a lawyer or the next President is here amongst us today needing our help as a community to raise her into the woman God has created her to be. Your Royal Highness, as we seek to provide hope to these children, we must also remember the teaching of Jesus our Lord, in the Parable of the Good Samaritan, on who our neighbours must be. Our society and many other societies continue to witness the rising number of children who are orphaned and becoming vulnerable every day. And the reasons for these rising numbers should be clear to all of us:

1. The HIV/AIDs and now COVID-19 pandemic, and other sexually transmitted infections (STI). More parents, especially in our villages, contract or live with HIV/AIDs without knowing, getting tested or treatment. Many others young ones are also dying from curable sexually transmitted diseases such as syphilis.
This calls on every one of us to change our behaviour, attitude and become more responsible. And those who are not sick must also stop the stigma against those who are infected. These are our family members, friends and relatives. Today, we can stop this disease from wiping our villages. I challenge my staff at the Foundation and the Ubuntu Royal Home to utilise your space and skills to create awareness in all villages and give hope to those who are sick.

2. In our villages, we are losing young people of productive age - both girls and boys - due to excessive intake of alcohol, some of which is brewed from our own homes. I realise that apart from seasonal small scale farming, many of our young ones who abuse alcohol in our villages have very little or no other economic activities.

I am however encouraged and inspired to learn about future plans by Ubuntu Royal Homes to equip our youths and women in Chibombo, Kasenengwa and Samfya with skills in tailoring, aquaculture, carpentry. The Edgar Lungu Foundation will remain your collaborating partner around these initiatives. I also encourage you to work with government in creating a conducive environment for the success of these and other programmes. Together, we can make the lives of our people better.

3. The changing climate is threatening food security around the world, and our families and communities are not spared. The results of climate change are visible in the yields and in our maize barns. Our weather and soil which gave us sufficient food is now threatening our very existence.

Therefore, there is need for us to embark on an aggressive programme to replenish our forests, hence our core pillar of Transforming Lives which promotes Tree Planting programmes and Climate Smart Agriculture initiatives meant to enhance food security and value addition. To ensure we continue to have food for our families and children, we must continue to work together to plant more trees and to care for our land.

4. With many rural parents struggling to provide sufficient food, young girls (sometimes as young as 12 years old) in our villages are being married off at an early age. Usually, girls who have been given off into early marriages become victims of spouse battering. Sadly, some of these girls and boys in our villages have lost their lives due to increased gender-based violence. Some have left young children who are being attended to by ailing grandparents.

I am a Champion and will remain a Champion against early child marriages. Strong and powerful men don’t beat their wives. The plight of girls and women is at the core of everything we do at the Foundation. We want to assure our traditional leaders here and around the country that you will find the Foundation a partner in the fight against early child marriages and genderbased violence.

Your Royal Highness, children are becoming orphaned or vulnerable not because of consequences of their sins, but because of these factors and many others. We have also replaced our own extended family values in which communities cared and provided for orphans and vulnerable children with the foreign way of life which emphasises “each one for himself and God for us all.” We must go back to our traditional way of living, “It takes the community to raise a child”.

Therefore, when I learnt about the work that was happening to pilot a project meant to empower children with education and skills, I keenly followed it and I am happy that when we donated to the aquaculture project at Ubuntu, some of the earnings have been used to build infrastructure for the leaners at this school. This is the kind of sustainable growth and impact that we value as a Foundation and we hope to continue building on across the country.

I have sufficiently been briefed by my team on the works being done to transform the lives of the children, in and out of school youths and women in this area. The setting up of the Ubuntu Royal Community School, Your Royal Highness, is the best gift we can give to orphaned and vulnerable children in accessing quality education. I therefore look forward to continued collaboration in your quest to provide basic education and skills training to children, youth and women.

Your Royal Highness, for the Edgar Lungu Foundation, I want to reaffirm that even when a child loses one or both parents, we still believe in a world where every child must have a safe and conducive environment to grow into a responsible citizen. We must all strive to be that loving parent and f amily to parentless children.

I am thus delighted to be here today to with my Foundation to officially hand over the following items to the orphans and vulnerable children of Ubuntu Royal Community School; Technical teaching staff, teaching aides, chairs, footballs and uniforms for the learners including a feeding programme to cover the rest of the year 2022.

In addition is the donation of the restocking of the Ubuntu Poultry project with village chickens and feed aimed at enhancing the sustainability progr amme of the school. In conclusion Your Royal Highness, ladies and gentlemen, it is my hearts desire as Founder of the Edgar Lungu Foundation to see the lives of the orphans and vulnerable children transformed, enriched and empowered for life, as we buil d the next generation of our society. We believe in peace as the bedrock of our existence and well being of humanity.

I thank you.

EXPLAIN CRITERIA USED TO CONFER AWARDS ON OBASANJO, SIRLEAF AND KOROMA, KAMPYONGO CHALLENGES VEEP

Whip of opposition in Parliament Stephen Kampyongo has urged Vice President Mutale Nalumango to explain the criteria used to confer awards on some African former Heads of State during the African Union Mid Year Coordination meeting.

And Kampyongo has urged National Assembly to attend to the parliamentarians’ “outstanding in house issues” before Parliament adjourns sine die.

Contributing to the motion to suspend business of the House in Parliament on Friday, Kampyongo explained that the Vice President sits on the committee that is mandated to identify recipients of investiture ceremony awards, therefore she is in the right position to tell the nation what criteria...

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GIVE ECL THE RESPECT HE DESERVES - KAMPYONGO

….but don’t expect him to be quite even when you drag his wife out of the bedroom

Lusaka…. Friday, July 22, 2022

Shiwang’andu Member of Parliament Stephen Kampyongo has called on the New Dawn Administration to give former president Edgar Lungu the respect he deserves.

Hon Kampyongo said despite Lungu being a statesman, government should not expect him to be quite even when they are dragging his wife out of the bedroom.

He said that the former Head of State still can give an opinion on matters of national importance.

Commenting on the ZESCO issue, Kampyongo said the country no longer experienced load shedding but the current administration fails to recognize president Lungu for his efforts.

The lawmaker said this when he and other PF MPs addressed the media at Parliament today.

“We are happy that we saw the President at Kafue Gorge officiating at that very momentous occasion for ZESCO. And it doesn’t cost much Mr President because your predecessor was there to launch that project you were commissioning,” he said.

“So why should it be a problem just to recognize that simple effort of your predecessor? Because the dividends that are coming from there were planted by someone. So you can’t just appreciate the harvest without acknowledging those that planted. And this brings me to the point that we heard from the Managing Director for ZESCO……. that Zambia has got a surplus.”

He reminded members of the public that not too long ago Zambia had a deficit in terms of power.

“We had to import power at a higher cost. So if now we have a surplus, how are the Zambian people now benefiting from the surplus? What are the tariffs that Zambians are paying for this power they are supposing to be benefiting from? So we want the current government to appreciate the effort of our former president because it calls for effort,” he said.

“Today there is no load shedding. No one is speaking about it. They are talking about surplus, how did that come about? And some of this debt being talked about its what government contracted to ensure that we dealt with the energy sector.”

And Kampyongo stressed the need for the former Head of State to be left alone as he has taken leave.

“So today you can call for the removal of the immunity, people are aware of his services. He has taken leave he has gone but they want to drag him. Let’s give him the respect that he deserves,” he said.

“But that does not mean he will remain quite. Even when you enter his bedroom and drag his wife out he should remain quiet and say no if I come out they will say we will remove your immunity. Those are constitutional matters. Let us not gag him because even when he says he is a statesman; he will have opinions to give.”

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📸Shiwang'andu lawmaker, Hon. Stephen Kampyongo with one of his lawyers Leon Lemba taking a walk in the streets of Chinsali District after the Courts set him free this morning, together with other co-accused in the Helicopter case

📷Former President, Dr. Edgar Chagwa Lungu speaks with former Home Affairs Minister Hon. Stephan Kampyongo at the funeral house of late Hon. Alexander Chikwanda.

SHIWANGA'NDU area Member of Parliament Stephen Kampyongo has advised the United Party for National Development (UPND) administration to make Indeni Petroleum viable.

Mr Kampyongo said there is need for a long term solution for the industry.

He noted that once Indeni is made viable, the country will have options of where to get crude oil from.

"In its current form, indeni can only get a certain type of mixed crude oil that has to be separated into finished products," he said.

Mr Kampyongo added that the idea by the UPND administration to make Indeni an oil marketing company is not right, because it will not provide a lasting solution to the much investment made so far in industry.

Meanwhile Mr. Kampyongo has further called on the government to consider reintroducing subsidies on fuel in order to cushion the Zambian people from the negative effects of the increase in fuel prices.

He said government needs to focus on things that will change the people's lives, because the people will not accept that the government can not fulfil their promises.

"Every one is affected by the increase in fuel prices, but what is important is for government to cushion the negative effects of fuel prices on the people," he said.

Mr Kampyongo was speaking when he featured on Radio Phoenix's Let the People talk programme.

(Mwebantu, Friday, 1st April, 2022)

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INVESTIGATE GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS WHILST THEY HOLD PUBLIC OFFICE URGES PF

The opposition Patriotic Front (PF) has called on the investigative wings in the country to deal with issues in real time if they are to continue being deemed effective.

Speaking when he featured on Millennium TV last evening, former Home Affairs Minister Stephen Kampyongo noted the need for institutions such Anti Corruption commission to be able to visit individuals even when they are still holding ministerial positions.

“We need to ensure that these institutions are able to visit our colleagues who are currently holding office. If we are going to wait until they leave office to visit them, then there is no need of having these institutions,” he said.

And Mr. Kampyongo says he has a problem with individuals trying to paint a picture that the investigative institutions had not been functioning before the UPND Alliance formed government.

He said in the PF Government, some individuals were investigated adding that this showed there was a will to fight corruption.

“Remember that in our time, we had colleagues we were summoned by these institutions. It means there was a will by our President but he was mindful because there might have been just Mare allegations,” he said.

Mr. Kampyongo added that to strengthen the accountability system, the PF Government amended the financial management act number 18 which stipulates what should be done on those who want to temper with public resources.

“Now the Auditor General’s office is looking effective because of the environment that was created,” he said.

KAMPYONGO CALLS FOR CALM AMONG PF MEMBERS

Following the Central Committee Meeting held on Saturday and published resolutions, Hon. Stephen Kampyongo has called for calm and patience amongst members.

Responding to concerns raised in PF Blogs about the Resolutions, Kampyongo stated that the spirit of the meeting will be communicated at press briefing to be held by Hon. Given Lubinda.

Kampyongo wrote;

Dear Colleagues, brothers and sisters, I know that your expectations from today’s meeting are high.

I appeal to all of you to be just a bit patient as tomorrow Hon. G. Lubinda will give you and the nation a detailed briefing on the resolutions of our meeting today.

We as your MCC’s are alive to your various concerns and believe me, nothing is being ignored at all.

Further, those of you my comrades I met this morning prior to the CC meeting I did what you assigned me to do and that feedback will be given tomorrow.

Let us be patient, let us be united.

VICTORY IS CERTAIN- HON. KAMPYONGO

August 12, 2021 general election will be the easiest to win because people are able to compare and contrast based on where the country is coming from, former Minister of Home Affairs Stephen Kampyongo has said.

Mr. Kampyongo said he could not believe the transformation of infrastructure for men and women in uniform from 2011 when PF formed Government to date.

"The responsible Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces President Edgar Lungu acted in good faith to improve the welfare of Zambia Police Service, Immigration Department, Drug Enforcement Commission, Department of National Registration and the Zambia Correctional Service," he said.

Mr. Kampyongo said security was a key enabler especially that President Lungu wanted to establish a 24 hour economy after elections.

"The PF Government had modernized the operations of the Zambia Defence Force for them to defend their country with pride," he said.

Mr. Kampyongo said it was unheard of anywhere in the world for any opposition leader to pledge to sale off military ware like they did to privatisation.

"Zambians should reject violence before, during and after 12th August national polls as Zambia was not voting for the first time," he said.

Mr. Kampyongo said UPND was a common denominator in all forms of violence which introduced the Mapatizya Formula when it fought MMD and continued the violence against the PF.

"I wish to advise all political parties to learn to coexist as their was life after 12th August national polls but it is shameful that the UPND President is justifying violence by stating that they are defending themselves," he said.

Mr. Kampyongo said President Lungu offered tested leadership together with his Runningmate which would benefit the nation.

Vote Hon. Stephen Kampyongo for Shiwan'gandu Constituency.

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