Luangwa Establishment Wants Mining To Precede In The Lower Zambezi National Park
By Logic Lukwanda/Balewa Zyulu
The Luangwa establishment has backed calls for mining to precede over tourism in the lower Zambezi national park.
Establishment Chairperson Joseph Felemenga said the people in Luangwa feel it is justified to go ahead with mining in the area because of animal-human conflict as people are frequently attacked and killed by elephants and crocodiles as well as the high poverty levels.
Addressing the media in Lusaka this morning, Mr Felemanga said the Luangwa establishment feels when Mwembeshi Resources is allowed to go ahead and start copper mining in the lower Zambezi National Park through its Kangaluwi project, poverty levels and wild animals’ attacks on people will also go down.
Mr Felemanga who was flanked by other members of the Luangwa establishment have since asked the Zambia Environmental Management Agency –ZEMA- who rejected mining in the area to go ahead and provide relevant documentation to allow the Kangaluwi Copper Mining Project to go ahead in respect of the high court ruling for mining to go ahead recently.
Meanwhile, two traditional leaders in Luangwa district of Lusaka Province have insisted that they want mining to continue in Lower Zambezi National Park.
The two Chiefs Namely Senior Chief Mbuluma of the Nsenga-Luzi people and Chief Mphunka of the Chikunda speaking people both of Luangwa district are of the view that mining in the area if allowed to continue will bring economic development.
The two traditional have however challenged government to state its position on the issue as they feel that the ministers are not being sincere.
The duo said this when Lusaka Province Minister Bowman Lusambo held a meeting with them this morning at the Luangwa district administration.
And responding to the traditional leaders, Lusaka Province Minister Bowman Lusambo has assured the two traditional leaders that he will engage the Minister of Mines and Minister of Tourism for a further discussion on the matter.
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