Vice President George Kunda says he is impressed with progress made on works currently going on at the Zambia Electricity Supply Corporation Kariba North Bank extension project.
Mr. Kunda said the US$420 million project is progressing well adding that Government is committed to ensuring that it supports ZESCO to meet its set standards of providing electricity to the nation.
The Vice President said this in Siavonga today when he inspected rehabilitation works at the ZESCO extension project.
ZANIS reports that in another development, Mr. Kunda Wednesday afternoon commissioned the refurbished Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and donated Dental equipment by Lions Club of Siavonga to Siavonga General Hospital.
Mr. Kunda said Government has a deliberate policy of upgrading clinics and hospitals and equipping them with state of the art equipment to enable Zambians access quality health care.
He expressed gratitude to the Lions Club for supplementing Government efforts in providing health care.
And ZESCO Managing Director Enerst Mupwaya said the project will create more than 2000 jobs for the local people at the end of the works by 2018.
Mr. Mupwaya equally thankled Government for helping the utility company offset some of its challenges.
He said the project has focused on enhancing ZESCO’s ability to provide electricity in an efficient and sustainable manner.
Mr. Mupwaya explained that once the project is completed it will contribute to efforts of the Rural Electrification Authority and consequently reduce load shedding in the country.
He said the project will also provide an additional 360 mega watts of power once completed.
The Vice President is in Siavonga to assess developmental programmes.
ZANIS
A landslide vote for RB is assured. The other political jokers can continue with their political rhetoric ‘change is coming’ without telling us what that change will bring. They think Zambians are that naive as not to see what is happening in every sector of the economy.
Well done MMD administration. My vote is already cast. Please dont let opportunists with no development agenda to take over. We dont want change that will take us backwards.
And today the 31st of May 2013, we are crying foul for voting people with no development agenda for Zambia…………….
Good job MMD government, you are doing a great job.
That is definately a good job.Wonderful.Keep it up .
Ba LT, when did Siavonga Hospital become a General Hospital?It is a District Hospital.
# 5 The MMD call Siavonga district hospital is an Siavonga International Medical Hospitals.
Anyway 2000 jobs is something, atleast fish can breed because fishermen will be busy with concrete.
developing our power infrastructure shall indeed make this country prosper.
let us give it up for those making this possible
even the American prosperity began with the building of the Hoover Dam!!!
viva progress viva!!
The MMD is waking up lookin g at the way Ba George is moving from point of zed to another. Meantime the opposition bali indwi giving press statements and finger pointing RB, Tekere & MMD. Is the opposition going to deliver?