The Abena mukulu Royal Establishment
( AMRE ) committee has appointed former Chibusa basic school headmaster
Ernest Mwansa Chibesa as new Chief Chabula of abena mukulu tribe of nsombo area
in Luwingu district.
ZANIS reports from Luwingu District,
today, that Senior Chieftainess Chungu confirmed the development in an
interview.
She said that the royal
establishment of abena mukulu tribe has decided to appoint Ernest Chibesa as
new Chabula after a thoroughly investigations following the family tree to
avoid wrangles that other tribes have gone through.
“ It has taken them 22 months for
the establishment to identify the new tradition ruler because the committee
didn’t want to go through the problems other tribes are facing to appoint their
chiefs in their chiefdom, “ she said .
The Chieftainess explained that it
was a duty of the royal establishment to identify eligible person to ascend to
the thrown and appealed to the family members to accept its decision.
She said new chief Chabula was
picked from the three people identified by the royal family members and that
their names were forwarded to the royal establishment committee for
consideration.
She called on family members to
unite and support the newly appointed chief Chabula in order for the area to
attain the much needed development.
The newly appointed chief Chabula
(Ernest Mwansa Chibesa) is on leave pending retirement from the ministry of
education where he worked as a teacher and later promoted to the rank of school
headmaster.
He served in many schools before
retiring as the school head master at chibusa basic school in chief Katuta’s
area about 145km west of Luwingu district in the northern province and about
76km east of Mansa district in Luapula province respectively
Her royal highness appealed to the
newly appointed chief Chabula to support the government of the day if the area
is to attain the much needed development as people will comparing the ideas of
late chief and that of his.
The traditional ruler said
government has already embarked on the construction a modern secondary school
next the Roman Catholic Church adding the school construction is almost
complete.
Chieftainess Chungu said the late
chief will be remembered especially when he released over 30 hectares of land
to the government for the construction of a secondary school for girls in his
area.
And witnessing the appointment of
new chief Chabula, District Commissioner Alfred Muonga thanked the community
and the family members in the area for exhibiting maturity until the royal
establishment committee appointed new chief.
Mr. Muonga said the patriotic front
(FP) government remains committed in improving the social welfare of its people
by making sure that fertilizers are timely distributed, roads are worked on,
health post and schools are constructed in all the six chiefdom in the
district.
He said government last month
released an additional K100 million for the construction of health post in
Mutondo village in Chieftainess Chungu’s area in Lupososhi constituency in the
district.
ZANIS
No comments:
Post a Comment