HH’s Nakonde Trip Confirmed
President Hakainde Hichilema is set to arrive in Nakonde this Monday, marking a return to the border town that gave him the highest presidential vote in Muchinga Province.
Prior to the Nakonde visit, the President will officiate at the KK@100 commemoration to be held in Lubwa on Sunday, followed by an inspection of key developmental projects in the provincial capital.
The last visit to Nakonde by President Hichilema was met with requirement for a passport and a brief ten-minute public address when he was then in the opposition.
The event was marred by confrontations between supporters and police, leading to the destruction of a police shelter and barricades amidst a cloud of teargas.
Muchinga Province Minister Henry Sikazwe has told Chete FM that the President’s agenda is packed with a public rally at Ntindi School grounds and an inspection of important projects, including the Great North road construction project
As the President visits Nakonde, an appeal to His Execellency the President to look at the state of the Nakonde-Kanyala road which has been continuously earmarked to be tarred by the past and present governments but to no avail. The road is very economic because it passes through massive agricultural areas in the region and through the border into Malawi at Kanyala border post. Our neighbouring Malawian authorities have done their part of tarring the road from their Chitipa border town up to our Kanyala Zambian border post. In our part thereafter from Kanyala to Nakonde, the road is pathetic such that it has made it difficult for local and the Malawian people to use this road to come to our country Zambia. During the days of UBZ, busses used to use this road from Nakonde to Chitipa because the road was well maintained during those good times. Hence there were a lot of economic activities being undertaken in the area.
Please, Your Excellency do something for this road. Our people along this area have suffered a lot with their agricultural products for which they have nowhere to find market because of this impassable road and yet it connects the two countries Malawi and Zambia.