{"id":17657,"date":"2022-03-06T20:36:27","date_gmt":"2022-03-06T20:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/road-fatalities-along-chikankata-mazabuka-road-worrying-former-dc"},"modified":"2022-03-06T20:53:22","modified_gmt":"2022-03-06T20:53:22","slug":"road-fatalities-along-chikankata-mazabuka-road-worrying-former-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/road-fatalities-along-chikankata-mazabuka-road-worrying-former-dc","title":{"rendered":"Road fatalities along Chikankata \u2013 Mazabuka road worrying \u2013 former DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>Former Chikankata District Commissioner, Peter Mwiinde has appealed to authorities to consider putting up measures so as to curtail the persistence road fatalities along the Mazabuka-Chikankata road in order to save lives.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mwiinde said perpetual road fatalities along Turnpike Mazabuka road in Southern province has been a matter of concern for some time now. The former DC said people have been crying for speed humps in densely populated crossing points such as Shamayuwa, Nasenga secondary School, Buche Buche Community School and CHICO school but to no avail.<\/p>\n<p>He said barely a week passes without recording a fatal road accident along Turnpike Mazabuka road in Southern province. He said this is due to over speeding of vehicles owing to the smooth road network.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mwiinde said, as person coming from Mabwetuba in Chikankata district in Chieftainess Mwenda of the Basanje Tonga speaking people, he and the people of both Chikankata and Mazabuka are concerned with this sad development.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Two people yet again died on the spot near Munali Hills adding that just for the Month of February alone ,over 20 people perished due to road accidents along Turnpike Mazabuka road,a thing the former DC said makes sad reading.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\">Zambia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. Former Chikankata District Commissioner, Peter Mwiinde has appealed to authorities to consider putting up measures so as to curtail the persistence road fatalities along the Mazabuka-Chikankata road in order to save lives. Mr Mwiinde said perpetual road fatalities along Turnpike Mazabuka road in Southern province has been a matter of concern for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":17656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,25,8,16],"tags":[234,235,233],"class_list":["post-17657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-featured","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zambia","tag-zambia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Road fatalities along Chikankata \u2013 Mazabuka road worrying \u2013 former DC - Zambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Chikankata District Commissioner, Peter Mwiinde has appealed to authorities to consider putting up measures so as ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/road-fatalities-along-chikankata-mazabuka-road-worrying-former-dc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Road fatalities along Chikankata \u2013 Mazabuka road worrying \u2013 former DC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Chikankata District Commissioner, Peter Mwiinde has appealed to authorities to consider putting up measures so as ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/road-fatalities-along-chikankata-mazabuka-road-worrying-former-dc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Zambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-03-06T20:36:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-03-06T20:53:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/03\/img-62251f22a7898.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"533\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/road-fatalities-along-chikankata-mazabuka-road-worrying-former-dc#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/road-fatalities-along-chikankata-mazabuka-road-worrying-former-dc\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Road fatalities along Chikankata \u2013 Mazabuka road worrying \u2013 former DC\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-03-06T20:36:27+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-03-06T20:53:22+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/road-fatalities-along-chikankata-mazabuka-road-worrying-former-dc\"},\"wordCount\":220,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/road-fatalities-along-chikankata-mazabuka-road-worrying-former-dc#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/03\/img-62251f22a7898.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Zambia\",\"Zambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"Featured\",\"homepage-english\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/road-fatalities-along-chikankata-mazabuka-road-worrying-former-dc#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/road-fatalities-along-chikankata-mazabuka-road-worrying-former-dc\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/road-fatalities-along-chikankata-mazabuka-road-worrying-former-dc\",\"name\":\"Road fatalities along Chikankata \u2013 Mazabuka road worrying \u2013 former DC - 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