JAPAN has given Zambia a K293 billion grant for the construction of a road network in Lusaka and rehabilitation of water supply facilities in Ndola.
According to a statement released by the Japanese Embassy in Lusaka yesterday, of the total grant, K166 billion will be spent on constructing a 14.6 kilometre road network, which will cover the inner ring road, connection roads and the Lusaka Multi Facility Economic Zone access road.
The statement says the project’s aim is to minimise traffic congestion and improve the environment in the south of Lusaka.
It says the implementation of the project will result in traffic cost reduction, employment creation and poverty alleviation.
In the last 10 years, Lusaka City Council has been implementing the Road Sector Investment Programme, which is intended to establish a full and efficient transport system.
“While a number of main roads have been improved under this programme, the road pavement rate is still around 65 percent, thereby necessitating further road improvement to enhance the transport system,” the statement reads in part.
It says the other part of the grant, amounting to K127 billion, will be spent on the repair and expansion of water supply facilities in Ndola.
“Specifically, the grant will be used to repair the Kafubu water treatment plant and the main transmission and distribution pipelines, construction of water kiosks in Kaloko area, installation of a water quality analyser and implementation of the soft component, comprising a technical assistance scheme of support for operation and maintenance systems of the facilities,” part of the statement reads.
The project seeks to address the challenge of high demand for water in Ndola, in view of the rising population.
About 354,000 people, mainly living in low income areas, are expected to benefit from the project by the year 2020.
The project will result in the expansion of access to safe water in target areas, thereby fulfilling basic human needs.
“The improvement of hygienic conditions and the availability of piped water through the successful completion of this project will significantly contribute to the improvement of the quality of life,” the statement says.
Are these the capital markets H.E RB was talking about?
Thank you Japan. Here we say – Doumo arigatou gozaimashita.
PLEASE DO NOT GIVE THE TENDERS TO THE CHINESE ROAD MAKING COMPANIES!.
LET THE JAPANESE BUILD THEM AND THEY WILL LAST
Grateful Japanese despite the disaster which they faced early this year they are still giving aid to Zambia. these guys are great. Thank you so much for your assistance.
#2 dou itashimashite
konnbanwa
The only give money to a working government….
Thank you Japan for the confidence exhibited in GRZ
Thanks to the Government and Japanese people.
And i thought Japan had a lot of reconstruction of it own to do!!
Couldn’t agree more, I concur with gentleman (3) who has suggested that the Japs themselves should undertake the road rehabilitations. These guys are visionary, smart, technologically advanced (better than the western world, and have the machinery (tools) and capacity to do so.
No other country in the entire eastern Hemisphere could have survived the ghastly atomic bombings of 1945 yet, they came back even more triumphantly and to prove to the entire World that they a force to reckon with.
Thank you Japan, you ere brothers (and sisters) indeed; much better than the western colonial masters who brought us the deadly HIV virus…
#10, We as Zambians , should be ashamed to be getting hand outs or grants from Japan, instead of saying Thankyou, Its is indeed a shame! Zambia has more mineral resources than Japan. As long as our people wake-up every morning and sun bask! We will not achieve anything!. For example , we sell raw mineral resources like copper , Zinc abroad, why not have them processed locally and then we can sell them at a higher price! Indeed we have very dull leaders! Shame
No11. You are a real educated Zambian. Indeed, people start jumping when we receive AID when they were supposed to cry for themselves.They start insulting the westerners for the sins committed about 60 years ago when our own leaders have done more crimes than the colonizers. No 10 is a backward person. Surprisingly, he is probably living in a Western country. Please, let us work very hard and stop over praising whoever donate something. I hope we are not going to blame the westerners for the Mobile hospital costs when we finally start paying for them, and again cry for debt cancellation.
RB is a failure. You rely too much on handouts which you pocket. So much for development. The Japanese and other visitors see what the roads are like and feel they have to do something about it. Pitiful!!!! Mmd have to go they can’t even turn down the offer, it’s more like rubbing their hands together to see how much they can embezzle for the grants.
# 5
Konnichiwa. Genki desu ka?
Nippon sugoi ne!