The construction of the 34-kilometers Mongu Kalabo road works in Western province by AVC International Company has reached an advanced stage.
A spot check conducted by ZANIS this morning found that the road has gone as far as Lealui from the Mongu harbour.
Speaking during an interview, Jimmy Situmbeko, one of the workers engaged on the road construction told ZANIS that the works are likely to be halted this November because of the rains as the work involves carrying heavy loads for the construction of the road.
And the fishing community in the Zambezi plains have expressed gratitude with the government decision of embarking on the road work construction ongoing in the area.
Mercy Tukamone a Mongu resident found at Lealui fishing Camp has thanked the Patriotic Front (PF) government for the tremendous road works it has taken in the province saying this will enhance sustainable development in the area.
Ms Tukamone further said that lack of proper road networks in the area was a great hindrance to the development of the province.
Commenting on the same development, Precious Mwanamwali who is also a Mongu resident noted some of the challenges people are facing in the province such as the ferrying of health facilities to the other side of the province saying once the road is functional it is going to reduce on the burden of transportation system in the area.
Currently the PF government has embarked on the establishment of new roads and rehabilitation ones throughout the country.
RB project ,a chinese loan of USD300million signed in 2011.this project it as nothing to do with pf.
Oh please grow up!
If it has nothing to do with the PF, the PF would have abandoned it. Simple as that.
Why didn’t RB complete it? He was busy mounting big billboards of himself countrywide. Sorry he missed the opportunity to impress Zambians to win even a first term in office after borrowed presidency from the late LPM (MHSRIEP).
This is an MMD Project. The PF even cancelled this project within one week of getting into power. Then Minister of Transport Yamfwa Mukanga termed it a ‘political project’ when cancelling it. When the MMD negotiated for a loan in 2010 with the Chinese govt for the project, various pro PF newspapers like the Post and blogs like Zambian Economist and Maravi ran articles condemning the project as ‘single sourced’ ‘uneconomic’ and just plain unnecessary. Now today people want to tell us that this a PF project? With due respect guys go screw yourselves. There’s no PF signature on the loan deal neither on the construction contracts with the Chinese builders.
PF should just show us where their proposed university and stadium are. Leave the MMD projects alone please!
Can you keep your energies for something else. Whatever, you say people will vote and they know better than yourselves. S.h.u.t up. You think you can continue cheating people. Mahtani is stealing money from BoZ you fools. Where did PF get the money for campaigning?
It is pay back period
Its a government project…period! doesnt matter who started it…
@noSTORDAMUS. This is madness.. were on earth can yu finish a stadium in 2years?or a university?
MWAICE, NOT JUST IMPLEMENTATION BUT PROPER IMPLEMENTATION IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING. OTHERWISE, RB WOULD HAVE SCRAPPED THE PROJECT AND CHEWED THE MONEY PANTU WABUFI BWAPAKUNYA. AFTER ALL THOSE PROJECTS WERE POLITICALLY MOTIVATED. PF CONTINUED AND PUT PREASURE TO SEE TO IT A PROPER ROAD IS CONSTRUCTED.
Uli cipuba sana. Who is constructing it- is it rb or Sata? Ukule mumano iwe mbuzi.
If only this Government would for once stop with all the Tom and Jerry games….. we would see alot more progress.
@Cindy: But that bridge is not finished, the PF also started 8000-what-road project, still not finished, then 3 universities unfinished. I almost forgot the most important “Mongu Stadium” started, but not finished. Hooo plus The Disaster Stadium, no one has played there yet. I also heard the Zambia Constitution the PF promised to finish in 9 weeks is not even half way?
PF PF PF… full of
Nosradamus,
Dont worry they be full completion very soon, Sata is not a man who leave any project hanging that am very certain.
@ Nostradamus,
It should read as in full completion.
@Innocent,the chinese are finishing it,the drawing,the planning,the funds for the project were sourced under RB.yes he was putting up billboards .RB also did the sesheke senanga road.
Innocent,When someone is hated even the good in that person is also hated ,eg jesus christ it is not that ppl were not seeing the miracles of jesus christ the hated him to the point where is miracles were irrelevant to the ppl.if u had to go in some districts in western province u will see secondary schools and hospitals built under RB it is just people wanted change it became too much of MMD.
Pelekelo,
Forget about RB or MMD. You don’t come across as one who understands how countries and governments function developmentally.
RB or not, a sitting government has constitutional responsibility for the continuing development of the country.
Early Christmas for some
http://zambiareports.com/2013/11/05/mahtani-claims-k120m-compensation-from-bank-of-zambia/
TAKE NOTE OF REGIONAL PROJECTS MEANT TO BENEFIT THE REGION, THIS IS ONE OF THEM!
Sata’s has initiated the project of a university and a stadium for the people of western province and RB left a lot of other projects like Mongu-Kalabo road, senanga-Sesheke road, hospitals, schools etc. The spirit of refusing to recognize the seating president based of the projects started by the former was started by Sata. He called RB a liar when he said his gvt built Mwanawasa studium saying that was not RB’s project. There was a big argument then, Sata wanted to have RB delinked from all projects started during LPM’s time. So what has changed now? But we know that continuity even in the face of change of gvt is a symble of political stability. MMD brought mobile phone to Zambia, but you commission one tower in Luangeni and you have the gust to say MMD neglected the area. Very…
Huts off to you for a balanced thought on our current situation. What Sata forgot is that whatever yardstick he used to measure his colleagues success the same would be used to him. Surely people are just pointing out the truth that Sata’s Govt has not built the Kalabo Road because it was started by the previous Govt. Surely no matter how much we may have hated RB he did a lot in his three year period. He may not have turned Zambia into a first world but I think he listened to his team of economist who balanced debt and development as well as national reserves. That balance seems to have gone through the window because of wild pro-elections promises which are not commensurate with the size of the national cake, coupled with lack knowledge of economic development dynamics.
Please get real with yourself and be truthful about what is not working. RB and MMD is history, Rupiah failed the country and its time to reflect on what is happening. 50 years after independence we still have the same roads which were done by Valentine Musakanya.
Whatever MMD supporters are going to say, RB had his chance to impress the whole country. He chose to do nothing on a lot of things. RB DID NOT start this project, it was Chiluba who started it. Levy continued with it. RB took over and slowed down everything….he even went to the lozis and told them he didn’t need their vote to win, and that was after they had voted for him on false promises in 2008. Instead RB actually was shooting innocent children for protesting. I wonder what RB thinks now….he f.u.c.k.e.d.up big time.
Guess what? In 2011, Sata went and camped there for a while to campaign. Even more, the road is now moving at the fastest pace since it was started. There is a lot going on in Western province right now, not just in Mongu – 2016 it is a done deal for PF.
Sir you have shown that you are commenting on the project you dont understand. Chiluba started it under a Kuwait loan and company. Mwanawasa took over and the road failed due to a flawed design. RB came in and engaged the the dutch to redesign the Road which they successfully did. RB then looked for the sponsor of the project which the chinese agreed and he signed a loan with them. The chinese company was engaged to construct the Road because they were cheaper than the Dutch. The new construction was therefore started under RB and it is still going on. PF should stop gaining credit over this road because it is definitely not theirs. However over 40 Km was already completed under Mwanawasa on the upper land from the plain to Kalabo. Please if you have never been to Western province shutup.
uli chipuba nokoh ichinyoh ukutikama, you can’t compare the kindergatten nonsense your fossil is churning out to what gentle RB did. in a country of mentally balanced people sata can not come close to presidency only in zambia
This lack of ownership is really annoying. Were MMD going to use their personal funds? Are PF using their party funds? This is our project! We the Zambian people! We will be the ones paying for these projects for years to come not MMD or PF.
You are right! This is a Zambian project, not a party project. There is only one government in Zambia, and that is the Zambian Government PERIOD. There is no PF government in Zambia. PF is just the party in administration – a regime! They should not boast, but thank the Zambian people for the JOB. We pay them to do our jobs – the people’s jobs – they must work! We pay them salaries and allowances and we pay for all the projects in Zambia and all donotions are received on behalf of the people of Zambia as a nation and not as a party. The people of Zambia pay for everything they are using and enjoying. PF should not boast for doing their job. It is a duty, we pay them! PF are not working for free, let them get it in their heads and stop bothering us, project this, project that , what?
ALL ROAD WORKS AND OTHER
INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS WHICH
THE PF GRZ IS DOING COULD HAVE BEEN
CARRIED OUT BY H.E. YEARS AGO IF
CHILUBA HAD NOT TAMPERED WITH
DEMOCRATIC TENETS OF CHOOSING
A LEADER IN MMD.
IF CHILUBA HAD ALLOWED SATA TO
TAKE OVER FROM HIM, TODAY, 10 YEARS
ON, THE BEMBA DOMINANCE OUTCRY
COULD HAVE BEEN JUSTIFIED.
PLEASE ALLOW H.E. TO FINISH HIS
TERMS..
@Farmer. Who is HE?
@BlackBird
THE TRUTH IS, EVEN RULAL FOLKS
IN LUAPULA, NP, SP, CB ETC
ARE ABLE TO SEE AND APPRECIATE
THE MASSIVE INFRASTRUCTURE THIS
GRZ CARRYING OUT THROUGHOUT
THE COUNTRY.
LT headlines
“RB denies “stealing” trucks”,
“The Pedical road impresses Luapula
residents and thank the PF government”
“Construction of Mongu Kalabo road impresses
residents”
POLEPOLE…
Come 2016…HH will run out of campaign topics.
umunani untu uli pabwali! forget this RB noise.
In Chewa they say “Fodya ndi uja uli pamphuno”. Literary translation is “The sniff tobacco you can claim to be yours is the one on your nose”.
It really does not matter who initiated the project and who got the loan and whatsoever! The most important thing is that the villagers will finally have a good road and hopefully travel around safely!
RB, at least I know he was the only president who spent gov’t money deliberately on the people of zambia. To day look at the cities of Zambia the look beautiful with the rehabilitated roads. The food basket was bountiful, it was bumper harvest after bumper harvest such that we had run outof storage space. If this was not the showering of God’s blessing than what was it. Gullable Zambians so full tribalism that you become blind, even to your own blessing. See now the evil you have brought on us all, the food storage is empty and there are no rains. The bumper harvests are gone for we have cursed ourselves with this corruption, our debt situation has soared, we are more divided than ever …etc We are now heading to an economic disaster.
“Elected” Bridge – English from educated eastern cousins.
You wembas are razy to rearn ploper engrish
This road is in Barotseland,you know what it means
“Elected” bridges? There were some elections somewhere? 30m underground? How come we see them above ground? ba LT, you’re embarrassing yourselves with such captions.
We appreciate everything Zambia is doing for the neighboring countries of Barotseland and DRC; helping in the construction of Kalabo Road and the Peddcle respectively
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