The Kitwe City Council says it is disappointed with the low pace of construction works at the Freedom Park Shopping Mall by Platinum Gold Equity Limited.
Kitwe Mayor Chileshe Bweupe says the construction works should have been be completed in 36 months but to date very little development has taken place.
He was speaking during a press briefing in Kitwe on Friday.
Mr. Bweupe says the local authority is now worried that the contractor, has not made any serious progress on the project and has not even attempted to sign a new MoU after the first one expired on May 15, 2010.
He, however, stated that the council is obliged to develop the city to modern standards as such it will compel the company through various available statutes to ensure that the project is completed.
Meanwhile, Kitwe City council are consulting other stakeholders to remove vendors from the streets as the December deadline approaches.
Acting Town Clerk Bornwell Luanga says the local authority wants to ensure all key stakeholders are engaged in the process.
Mr Luanga was speaking at the opening of a consultative meeting on how to deal with street vendors on Thursday.
He says stakeholders will form a TaskForce to come up with suggestions on how street vendors will be moved to designated markets.
And Council Director of Community Development Monica Mwanza says the council has taken time to go round markets in the city to see how best to occupy the vendors.
Meanwhile a disabled street vendor Winstone Matafwali urged the local council to take into consideration the plight of the disabled when planning market places.
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Kitwenis very dirty. Cut the contract and give it to other contractors. We’re doing it with road contracts.
Kitwe City Council’s stakeholder analysis was extremely poor. I am sure the project was more of a political stunt than a genuine business venture. First and foremost, why would a normal council develop on a designated park? Why would the council develop on a designated Zoo? Cities expand due to development around the cities, or an expansion of the CBD. Take Harare for instance; they developed the “east gate” complex; and the west gate business park. With such a park, other services follow. Housing, schools, and the like. What you are seeing bwana Mayor are the consequences of usurping the power of the educated by politicians. Tuma Zambian leaders, you never listen.
Any normal council would engage qualified and experienced infrastructure planners together with developers to identify a suitable area that can be used for development. with proper analysis, one can balance markets, transportation, security and the rest. Take for instance Manda hill, Parliament, Arcades, unza, and the residential areas around; do you think the development attracted a change in the road network around the area? The answer is an obvious no. So enjoy the traffic jams that are self inflicted. With big projects, thinkage bane is very important. If we say we can do it, ati ba Engineer you are useless, hence the status quo. continue using your preferred professionals to handle your jobs and the result will never change.
Kabinda you are right these chaps just dance to the tune of illiterate politicians who have no skill of doing anything whatsoever and the result is total anarchy. Zambia has the largest number of illiterate politicians and hence the underdevelopment. You can imagine someone with high education or maybe a masters or phd being told what to do an illiterate politician who has never even seen the walls of a classroom; the end result is anarchy and poor everything. I end here!
on top of what kabinda and peace maker have observed, bukamushi is also a problem with civic leaders. because where he comes from there was no zoo or game park, he sees no need for one in kitwe. look at our former astra cinema building. how many years now. imwe bakamushi you are destroying zambia.
The people were against this mall to be built at the Freedom park, but Simwinga and his corrupt MMD forced the project to go on. The people’s submissions rejected this project twice and asked the council to look for an alternative land for the mall. If the council looks deeper they might that Simwinga has some interest in the project. The former Astra plot should be taken back by the council and give it to serious developers, it has become an eyesore in the City centre. Â
Hey Sister!Inshima is corn meal that is made into a starch that you can fold’ in your hand to scoop up your vegegis and meat with but it seems as though sometimes it is just held in your hand, and you eat it with the rest of your food. love Tina