Chief Chibwika of the Lunda speaking people in Mwinilunga district of North-Western province has clarified the delay to issue gold panning licences to cooperatives in his chiefdom. Speaking during a courtesy call by Home affairs Permanent Secretary Masiye Banda and his provincial counterpart, Willies Mangimela recently, Chief Chibwika said the delay to issue gold panning licences to twenty cooperatives in his chiefdom was because the panning certificates were issued in areas without mineral potential. “The manner in which they were issued was not in the way that it will benefit the local people because they were issued in areas where there is no potential”, he said.