Government has given the Lusaka City Council (LCC) K1.8billion for various works in the city.
In an interview with ZANIS yesterday, Council Assistant Public Relations Manager Mulunda Habeenzu disclosed that the money is meant for council to install culvert pipes to pump out storm water and unblocking of drainages in various parts of the city.
Mr. Habeenzu said the local authority intends to use the money to mitigate the effects of the floods in Kabwata, Kabwata Site and Service, Makeni and Emmasdale. He named the other areas as Kamwala South, Garden, Simon Mwansa and Mother Theresa, among others.
Mr. Habeenzu disclosed that the local authority has started installing culvert pipes to pump out storm water and is also unblocking drainages in Garden compound. He said the Council has communicated with the Ministry of Local Government and Housing on how the K1.8billion would be used.
Meanwhile, Mr. Habeenzu advised members of the public to refrain from constructing structures on top of drainage systems in the city. He said the undertaking was dangerous as it has the potential to cause problems not only for owners of such structures but the city as a whole. He advised members of the community to always consult the Council when they want to put up structures.
He added that the flood situation in some areas was because of the illegal structures that people were putting up as that blocks the water from flowing into the drainages.
Mr. Habeenzu said people who put up structures on top of the drainage systems should also blame themselves for contributing to the flood situation in their areas.
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Badala – please do not merely condenm illegal structures – demolish them. They make the whole Lusaka look like a “shanty”. Lusaka is the dirtiest capital in the world! There seems to be more order in lawless Mogadishu than in the so-called “Garden City”. Harare, despite all its issues, is very clean with no illegal structures – Mugabe demolished them!
Guys I’m standing in the Mufumbwe By-Elections, vote for me mwaumfwa :)>-
Mr Habeenzu, You are hereby reminded that every ngwee of that K1.8 billion must be accounted for in an honest manner, it is not meant for building private guest houses and farms. The people have suffered more than enough.
Nani engavotela imwe imbutushi.Dont you have where to start from wen you come back?
Are you joking? Can you spend 380billion on a useless NCC and only give 1.8billion to Lusaka City council? These people are morons!!!
But this amount is not enough.The figure looks that high but with the level of inflation my country has had it is just a drop in the ocean.:-?
K1.8b for Lusaka City Council, what about other Councils in Provincial HQ? We wait till these towns too have floods? Is this money given to LCC from the Disaster Prevention and Management Committee or it is specifically provided for in the National Budget?
The amount given to LCC is less that that spent on the funeral of the late president and possibly less than the cost of presidential travel in the last 12 month, definitely less than the cost of the the president’s limo. Lusaka has a population of how many? Priorities.
Peanuts or rather chicken change from the shopping sprees around the globe! How much does it cost to transport some one from Zed by air to another country for a chit chat of 30 minutes… we know that the rest is sightseeing and admiring how beautiful other countries are! Honestly how can someone live with wasting money on personal interests than doing his job first, which is, to look after his suffering nation. The zedian picture that i have, is sick, dirty, hungry and poor! It’s like choosing to buy a new car instead of using the money on treatments for ones sick child, that would die without the it, that is Zambia!!![-(
correction…………It’s like giving peanuts to a cancer patient instead of buying medicine!! Zed is sick and she needs more than chicken changeor peanuts, to heal. :)>-
Based on today’s exchange rate (Zambia), this is only equivalent to £260,000 (British Pound) which can only buy a two or three bedroomed semi-detatched house in some parts of UK.
but Ba RB spends more than this per trip overseas. this is stupid. if a house in Kabulonga can even cost more than 1.8billion then what is this to LCC.
Bobe! I got a 12 acre small holding in Maudzu (just after Independence Stadium), late last year I acquired two more small holdings along Mumbwa Rd. Nshaisa mukuangala mune!:d/
HEY YOU ALL GUYS LETS GIVE CREDIT WERE IT IS DUE.WELDONE GVT AND MR RB.WE KNOW IN ZAMBIA THAT IT IS THE COUNCILS THAT HAVE FAILED US CAUSE WE KNOW MANY ROADS EMBARKED ON IN COMPOUNDS ARE NOT PROPERLY DONE.THIS HAS BEEN THE TEST FOR OPPOSIRTION PARTIES WERE THEY CONTROL LIKE LUSAKA AND COPPERBELT.WHAT MORE IF THESE GUYS CAME IN POWER YA KUTI TWACHULA.DONT IGNORE THESE SIGNS GUYS.FOR YOU RB AND TEAM MONITOR THESE GUYS CLOSELY HOW THEY SPEND THE MONEY.
You are right on # 12 – last time I was in Lusaka, houses in Kabulonga and Sunnydale had passed the US $ 1 million mark, which is about K5 billion!