Chembe Bridge will help solve Luapula problems, says minister

Luapula Province Minister, Chrispin Musosha, has said the construction of Chembe Bridge will provide a lasting solution to many problems in the province.
Mr Musosha said in an interview from Mansa that Chembe Bridge construction was on course, saying the development had created excitement among the people in the province.
He said the bridge would provide the shortest route from the Copperbelt Province to Luapula Province, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and to the East Africa.
It would also open up doors to many investors that were willing to invest in the province.
Mr Musosha said Luapula had many copper deposits, which he said, would easily be exploited once the bridge was completed.
He said that Mwense district would have the biggest mine because it had a bigger portion, which of copper which stretched from the district right through Kasuba and Chief Mwenda’s areas.
Mr Musosha also said Kaputa district had various mineral deposits, which would easily be transported to the line of rail for export.
He said the Minister of Mines and Mineral Development, Kalombo Mwansa, had meetings with prospecting companies that had expressed interest to invest in the area.
Mr Musosha said the ministry of Mines was still evaluating as who would be the right investors to take development to Luapula.
He said that there was need to have the right investors that would be in a position to provide economic benefits to the people in the area.
The Government, through the Vice-President’s office had sent a team of officers from the Roads Development Agency (RDA) to recheck the effects of floods on the roads in many parts of the province.
He said most of the roads were found to have been affected by floods in the last rain season.
Most of the areas in which roads had become impassable were active in agriculture and needed good road network to enable farmers transport their produce to the market.