Tar Chifwema road, Sibeso Mumbuna-Mukelabai courts Milupi, Nkombo and CSR
Sibeso Mumbuna Mukelabai and Mpoli Habeene a ZESCO employee
By Ashton Kelly Bunda
CHIFWEMA settlement area resident Sibeso Mumbuna-Mukelabai is urging Local Government and Rural Development Minister Gary Chilala Nkombo to liase with Housing, Infrastructure and Urban Development Minister Charles Lubasi Milupi and the corporate community to install electricity and tar roads to facilitate commercial and peasant farmers a guaranteed market as public transport – buses fear servicing gravel and bumpy roads.
Ms. Mumbuna-Mukelabai, a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration from Greenwich University United Kingdom (UK) graduate advised the Zambian government to persuade delivery of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) within Chifwema led by SINOMA Cement Factory and companies outside the area.
The business minded Ms. Mumbuna-Mukelabai equally advocated for women and youths being empowered through accessing loans by at lower interest rates so as to fight poverty through entrepreneurship.
Ms. Mumbuna-Mukelabai, now a farmer said industries within and others beneficiaries outside Chifwema farming area must exhibit Corporate Social Responsibility as way of compensating and giving back to the community, as they benefit from sales and pollute the environment.
“Chifwema is a productive farming area but the challenge we face and stumbling block is a lack of good roads and electricity that can pump water from boreholes, farmers here have no access to the market, hence agro products go to waste as they root due to due to luck of transport, public transporters like bus drivers Shane this area because of gravel bumpy roads that causes fast wear and tear of the their vehicles,” Ms. Mumbuna-Mukelabai lamented.
And Ms. Mumbuna-Mukelabai’s niece, Ms. Mpoli Habeene, a ZESCO employee says with guaranteed private and public service support, Chifwema farming area will become the food basket of Zambia.
“Working together with business community within and outside this area to build roads and connect electric energy to the upcoming farming block, will increase incomes,” said an optimistic Ms. Habeene.
