Copperbelt Province Roads need urgent attention

1. I was disappointed that Charles Milupi elected to join dull Ministers to defend the indefensible. I expected him to tell us how he’s going to use the money that he collects in tolls to fix our roads. Milupi can’t explain where the money from tolls is. While he’s scratching his balls our roads are becoming worse. What kind of people are these? Zanama is always on the radio talking nonsense at the expense of service delivery

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   • It’s not Charles Milupi to decide how money from tollgates is to be spent. It’s the law and regulations that have been drafted that do that.

2. A direct result of MMD and PF failures in road maintenance. During UNIP roads where never allowed to reach such deteriorating levels. Zambia is faced with these problems because of 30 years of poor planing by previous governments. But the current govt must wake up to the challenge and rectify this problem at all costs because roads are a life line.

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3. All major roads in the country should have a maintenance schedules and these should fall under the councils. Be proactive instead of waiting for a road to fully deteriorate before making noises of repair. Start targeting incompetence to fully sort this issue out.

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   • No they shouldnt fall under the councils because roads will become as good or as bad as the supervising council. Roads that are classified highways should be left to a national roads body like is done in many countries. Highway maintenance should then be left to this body as it collects tolls for their maintenance. Councils need to know how to set their rates and how to use this money properly

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   • This is because councils should maintain local roads, pavements etc. Previously on the copperbelt the councils relied 90 percent on the Mining companies who serviced roads and paid lots of levies that the councils were supposed to use in townships outside the Mining areas. Privatisation changed this arrangement negatively

   • I think you are confusing authority with contractors. Local councils are an authority on behalf of government in their areas and have the duty to manage these areas efficiently. That management includes supervising, subcontracting, enforcement and many more on behalf of government. Highway agencies manage highways but council have powers to summon these agencies to attend to road issues in their areas.

   • @Futurezed authorities have jurisdictions and contractors may be hired by these authorities. Just within Zambia’s neighbourhood lets look at South Africa. The highways that pass through cities like Johannesburg and Pretoria are not maintained by Joburg Metro or Pretoria metro. They are classified as national roads and are therefore falling under National Roads Agency. All other roads within the cities dont fall under National Roads and are therefore maintained by the local councils.

4. I remember PF pumping about half billion dollars to CB roads giving that contract to AVIC …today we are back to square one..meaning that the roads were poorly done.

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5. Whatever happened to the PF ‘massive infrastructure development?’

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6. I thought the PF left massive infrastructure development

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7. Most roads that were done under PF are still intact except for those that were pending and whose contracts have been cancelled

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   • Are you serious? Which roads did PF do? Give examples of roads that PF worked in Ndola, Kitwe, Luanshya or Mufulira?

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8. One of the reasons we kicked UNIP out was because of poor roads. The MMD immediately started an ambitious program to reconstruct roads. Chingola – Kapiri was done by Phoenix, apart from township roads. One political campaign message depicted a car driving on a bad road

9. So, what happened to the unprecedented PF road infrastructure? It turned out to be a myth.

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