Government will this year construct a State Prison in Kalabo District in Southern Province at the total cost of K2.5 billion.
Western Province minister Sikwibele Mwapela told ZANIS in an interview in Mongu yesterday that government through the Ministry of Home Affairs has allocated K 2.5 billion for the construction of a prison in the district.
Mr. Mwapela said a total of K1 billion has since been released for the procurement of building materials.
The minister explained that government was constructing a state prison as a way of improving prison standards in the province and the country as a whole. He said the new prison will help to decongest the current structure which was too small to accommodate the current number of inmates.
Mr. Mwapela said last year during the rainy season, the prison was flooded forcing the prison’s authorities to ferry the inmates to Mongu state prison.He said land has already been secured from the traditional leadership in the district.
Meanwhile Mr. Mwapela who is also Kalabo Central Member of Parliament said an urban clinic is under construction in the district at a cost of K220million from the Constituency Development Funds (CDF).
He said once completed, the urban clinic would improve the accessibility of quality health services in the area.
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LT please make correction on this news Kalabo is in Western province not southern
Simple solution: No poverty, less need for such structure……GRZ should learn to work from the bottom upwards and not vice-versa:-b
Choma will be in Western province very soon..
I suspect LT meant Kalomo:d
:d/:d/:d/:d/ so what exaclty did LT mean?
#4 the meeting was in Mongu so they supposed to say Western Province from the begining.
Just as Lucky Dube MHSRIP put it”” there ‘ll be no schoolz anymore but all what they ‘ll be building ‘ll be prisons & prisons”
200 Million to build a cultural Village in Kafue ,2.5 billion to build a prison what a contrast.Well there is more steel needed to reinforce the walls of the prison, while a culture village is just a pile of timber and a bunch of grass for the roof.-That is Zambian social infrastructure development.Lol:o:o:o:o
LT meant Kalabo in western province, all the details in the story point to this conclusion. besides they need a new prison in Kalabo, anyway who has been inside that Prison will tell you that place is not fit for human consumption as we would say.
Lucky Dube said, ‘They wana build no schools any more, all they wana build are prison , prison!!!!!”, Remember who he was singing against-PW Botha, guess RB is not becaming another Botha
#10, YOU RIGHT, WHY PRISON, AND NOT SCHOOLS, HOSPITALS,CLINICS,play parks for childrens,houses, and factories? what shall we do my fellow Zambians? i wish i can win lottery to help out back home.
The want to build prison because they suspect more poachers will be caught in liuwa national park.
This is what I call stupidity, but why can’t they firstly find a good solution to floods in all areas in Zambia. You build a new University instead of that garbage you want to build, fooooooooolish.
This is what I call S.T.U.P.I.D.I.T.Y, but why can’t they firstly find a good solution to floods in all areas in Zambia. You build a new University instead of that garbage you want to build, fooooooooolish.
i remember ninshi nili mu zed years back. i was put mu jaile, ah ama guys vale fwaya kuni tomba. iye i cried. nati pliz imwe vantu pliz. pa last nayisa fye nayi nyelawiya. so that they keep away..kwisa?? up2 now chilan kalipa. please govt do something to protect prisoners from abuse. deuces bane:)>-
# 15 you made my day lol! a similar situation happened to me when I was once detained at central police in Lsk for no apparent reason. Did the same and on top of that nabikapo naka babatoni ati nalikwata ka virus…. elyo fyatinine nokunsha mwandi. They only managed to steal my belt=))=))=))=))=))