Irate villagers in Magoye area of Mazabuka have ordered officers from the Roads Development Agency (RDA) to immediately stop the ongoing government sponsored feeder roads rehabilitation .
Magoye member of Parliament, Bennie Mweemba who disclosed this in Mazabuka today said he is in full support of the decision taken by villagers because the road rehabilitation works are of poor standards.
He alleged that staff sent to do the repair works were just filling pot holes with ordinary sand instead of doing full scale rehabilitation as required in the contract.
Mr Mweemba said he is not going to support shoddy works when government spent alot of money to procure 5,000 litres of diesel used by the heavy duty equipment in the project.[quote]
He urged RDA regional manager to ensure well trained grader operators are sent to the district to do a good job.
He has also urged government to ensure close supervision of the works to save public resources from going to waste.
Mazabuka District Commissioner, Tyson Hamaamba is scheduled to inspect the rehabilitation project.
Government send a Grader, Frontend Loader and a Tiper truck to execute the 1,200 kilometres of roads in the four chiefdoms.
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Yup to all those who thought they can steal money by doing useless jobs in the villages, are in for a shock. Am sure they thought no one would notice. To their surprise the villagers are not so much of ‘villagers’ after all.
Villagers unite! Bring out your mikondos and nkolis and chase those corrupt thieves out of town. – Here is a slogan while you are at it.
Leader: What do we want?
Villagers: Good Roads!
Leader: When do we want them?
Villagers: Now!
Brandish some heavy duty sticks and throw the sand they are filling up the roads with in their eyes>
Wow, thumbs up to Magoye people. That is what we want. Expose the shoddy work because you are going to be the ones to affected in the end mwandini.
chansoni, nabakamushi bamona ubupuba
Way to go!! you deserve better!!!!
Viva to political civic education given to the villagers! City sleekers, learn from your colleagues!
Well done yeh Tonga brethren.Contractors must now learn to be accountable.Is this equipment also not too little for a 1200 km stretch?Lets be serious guys.If they by miracle can do 1 Km a day,then it would take over 3 years to complete this work,considering there are no rains,public holidays etc.
“Government send a Grader, Frontend Loader and a Tiper truck to execute the 1,200 kilometres of roads in the four chiefdoms”…
…”He urged RDA regional manager to ensure well trained grader operators are sent to the district to do a good job”
After reading story above,its like there is no Contractor handling these works,just drivers of these equipments!And no supervision at all being rendered by RDA!Very very sad indeed!
Big Up my neighbours! Thats how we gonna demand for change from now on. We shall chase fake contractors the same way we chase unexperienced drivers working under no supervision. How do they use sand instead of at least G6 gravel for road works? Who is behind that specification of sand for base course? Which entity or did the drivers just decide on their on? Somebodyis better crack the weep nobanamaleya!
for the first time Tongas have acted nicely.Kudos to you villagers
Am so impressed with my Tonga brethren. Unitying, ka? thats good. Meanwhile, if funds and equipment prove to be a challenge, may i propose that they quickly contact Henry Kapoko who will provide a Tipper truck, some funds (in Billions, mind you) and a Lexus car for the forman to use on his inspection tours. Accomodation for workers will be at Best Home Lodge in Roma. Am sure kapoka can arrange airlifting the workers to and from the site every day. I mean, whats a few Billions for Kapoka? Ma men yalya!!!
These villagers are right govt spends a lot of money everytime on the same roads so its better to do a good work once and for all infact they should tare the road
Lover Boy swebo tobatonga have always acted nicely. Anyone who saysthe contrary is just jealous -munyono biyo. Mind you our men in the village are big, tall and strong and are capable of defending of land against any fake contractors and aggressors for that matter.
This is how it has to be, right from cabinet to the last man on the chain. These thieves have to learn we are done with being lied to, treated like fools and being stolen from.
Bravo, from Dorah’s nullity, that’s the way forward. Any shoddy work etc is a nullity!
Kudoz to the villager! Way to go. I don’t expect RB to inspect the road works and other things happening in the country. It is us, the owners and users of the services that need to make sure works are done properly. I see a developed Zambia in the next ten yrs with this kind of mindset entering pipo’s minds.
Much love guys, way to go
good move
yes yes yes yes kwena this was SHODDY WORK even villagers saw that!…good move villagers!
Good, we must always stand for whats right.. And the MP should not just say he is in full support..He is suppose to be in front, after all hes the leader.
“Filling potholes with sand” Maano kubija bati, Viva informed magoye residents
GOOD NEWS. Those Tonga bulls are alert and did the right thing. I wish pipo in other parts of the country would be doing the same to such contractors. Its high time we started getting value for our taxes. Road construction is one area where some contractors have amde easy money. You just register Kantemba, respond to NCC advert for training, get a certificate temder for a RURRAL road, buy a few wheel barrows. shovels and picks then off one gets a contract. Oil hand of the officials concerned then abit of pot hole filing, dig some trenches and a bit of slashing. Chapwa, you buy porsh car without even visiting the site. Pipo shoould be proactive and take action where their interests are threatened. Its unbelievable how some roads turn after being worked on they become even worse than before.
Viva people power. Let us all demand what we collectively deserve.
WELL DONE.THAT’S THE WAY TO GO PEOPLE
Why did this story turn to being a ‘Tonga’ issue. Cant we discuss anything without turning it into an ethnic issue? And why are people so patronising to their fellow citizens just because they live in a rural area? People living in towns are so full of themselves and it is this attitude that pervades the whole political system – hence high levels of corruption and impunity.
Kamushi has woken up now
#23 Mwana,calm down.Its only a way of addressing the militant locals who statistically would be Tonga majority.There is nothing patronising about our comments but merely expressing satisfaction with the precedent that has been set.I will equally mobilise my Barotse colleagues to veto the long awaited Mongu/Kalabo road where contractors are merely designing board room bridges and pocketing the funds allocated.Kozo
I agee entirely with Mwana wa pa Ngoma, why should we label people through ethnic view point through and through. These are Magoye villagers! Periode! This is because among these vigilant people may be Lenjes,Luvales,Afrikaners,Bembas and so on. This is a farming community and even if it was not, what proven measurement mechanism do you have, to correctly lump them as this or that tribe. Each time there is an issue, why should we find it easy to identify by tribe than by their location or proffession, other than the fact that we have a prejudicial gene embedded within ourselves. Viva Magoye villagers! One Zambia, One Nation! Periode!
the people that chased the contractor surely must be commended .i was on holiday in dec and took 2hours to drive between livingstone and zimba .i cursed all the way .and i thought we were not going to arrive the road was baddd assuming it being tarred now.and all the way there was a people working on the road .i could not see much of what they were doing .i mostly saw poor people who probably by standing on the road side thought the could kill the boredom.the looked desperate and hopeless.then is saw chinese .i wonder whether that great road is complete by now .and if not the people ,like there comrades in magoye should rise and chase the contractor.wonder what happened to the equipment the gallant mwanawasa spoke about before his demise .viva magoye
Chase them away, i was on the copperbelt last week, failed to drive thru chibuluma road, when RB talks about development, where is developmen, I saw it with my own eyes there is no development except the road from the airport to Kabwe roundabout, and its because the japanese build it themselves. I also visited Matero, they are finally building a road along Twikwatane, but look at the vehicles repairing the roads, sham.kick MMD out if you want the country to develop. I watched the programme on Rwanda the country has developed, despite the war.