Promote health says Chieftainess Mungulu

By Brenda Zulu

Chieftainess Mungulu has appealed to the first lady Christine Kaseba to promote health. She said the issue of Tobacco was the heart of the community as people who smoke and those affected by it live in the community.

In her opening address at the Tobacco law awareness workshop for Civil Society Organisations today at the Sanctuary lodge, in Chibombo District, Chieftainess  Mungule, said tobacco was harmful.

Speaking on behalf of Chieftainess  Mungule, Headman Mukwaya said that tobacco was harmful and that it brings problems to people’s lives.

She said doctors have advised a lot of people to stop smoking and that there is a difference today because of people infected with HIV.

She observed that those   youths who continue smoking despite listening to elders are infected and that the ones who suffer are mothers and fathers.

At 78 years old, Chieftainess Mungule recalled that when she was young, elders always advised the young not to smoke.

She urged young ones to listen to elders observing that nowadays young ones were smoking. She recalled that as youths of her time they listened to elders.

Chieftainess  Mungule observed that tobacco was a crop that should be stopped to be grown in Zambia. She said tobacco growing was not encouraged in her chiefdom Mungule.