Luapula-bound travellers passing through the pedicle road in the Democratic Republic of Congo have expressed happiness at the progress of road works on the road.
The travellers on the Thursday Post Bus said the Patriotic Front Government was delivering on its promises because the pedicle was one of the roads that caused worries to the travellers in the past and but expressed happiness that the story will soon change.
Peter Bweupe stated that government had done well to ensure that the pedicle road was raised to the bituminous standard because of the amount of traffic that used the road throughout the year.
Mr Bweupe said the pedicle was a critical connector between the Luapula and the Copperbelt provinces and it was busy throughout the year.
He added that the people of Luapula Province will remember president Sata for a long time because of giving them a reliable pedicle road which will enhance business transactions between Luapula and the Copperbelt due to shortened time of travelling between the two provinces.
Mr Bweupe said it was good that the contractor has put his mind to the job because already, some material for tarring the 79 km stretch has been delivered to the site and some stretch was being covered.
He said a reliable pedicle road will not only enhance trade and commerce between the two provinces but also result in increased investments in the tourism sector.
The traveller said once tarred, pedicle road will add value to social outings and interactions between the peoples of the two provinces.
And Philip Chimbwe said the road will also promote weekend ventures by Copperbelt residents to the mouth-watering Lake Bangweulu beaches in Samfya District where a dive into the natural waters by the beach engraves an indelible memory on one’s life experience.
Mr Chimbwe added that the road will also become a catalyst to opening up the ten waterfalls of Luapula Province to the outside world because tourists wanted to go to a place where they are assured of a reliable road that should help them to plan and manage their time effectively.
And Bibian Kasonde said a tarred pedicle road will benefit not only the business people in the transport sector by their buses reducing on maintenance costs but also all private vehicle owners traversing the two provinces for various reasons.
Ms Kasonde said she was overjoyed that materials for tarring the road were already being levelled on some stretch of the road, saying the act has demonstrated the seriousness that government attaches to the road.
And Mary Mulenga argued that the Contractor should move quickly with the works because the rainy season was almost setting which will make the work difficult if some things were not done within the dry season.
Ms Mulenga said road works were a challenging task when being undertaken during the rainy season and might cost more on the movement of materials and earth moving machinery breakdowns.
She said it was a good that the tarred pedicle road will finally become a reality unlike in the past when the issue was just on the lips of politicians at public meetings without corresponding action on the ground.
Well done PF the road was an eye soar. It took us 4 to 5 hours to drive through the pedicle now it took me 40 minutes last month. Now I can go to the Umutomboko Ceremony every year. Big up HEMCS.
Thanks to MMD the party that budgeted and planned for the Roads aka formular 1 which PF bufi calls Link Zambia 8000
You guys are jokers!! This is a free tool you have handed to the Congolese to hassle you with! They will make you pay at all sort of make-shift roadblocks for using YOUR OWN TAR ROAD!! Attracted by the volume of traffic going thru, they will just wait to hijack!!You can sign as many memoranda with Lubumbashi as you want, however the chaps living along that road are not controlled by Lubumbashi – they are poverty stricken!! Who will police that road?? Obviously not ZP! Which “bright spark” that muted this idea?? Did they think the Govts before them, who RIGHTLY thought of doing the Tuta Road were stupid?? THIS IS A GIFT HANDED FREE TO A THIRD WORLD “AFRICAN” COUNTRY, whose mentality we all know!!
You are living in the past mwana. The Congolese are no longer interested in that kind of nonsense. They are actually related to us who use the pedicle. Just give praise where it is due. VIVA SATA! VIVA PF.
Did they stop charging money to those bald heads, with long hair, the blind, physically disabled or just about anything. My uncle was beaten up for refusing to pay money because he had long hair.
Good.
There is no chembe bridge. chembe is the name of the district but the bridge is called LEVY PATRICK MWANAWASA BRIDGE. Please report correctl
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Zambians are too jailous that. They fail to appreciate their own look in diaspora zambians wouldn’t attend any zambian lead church they would rather go to a nigerian lead pastor or congolese or any other but at funerals they would expect zambians to come and console them in the zambian way what a deases God deliver us
u r so boring u lot…
This was Mwanawasa’s dream,let us not forget to mention this fact.
Bembas there you are. Celebrate. But PF should remember to distribute the resources equitably amongst all our provinces. Pace for infrastructural development should be same in all provinces.
KCM accuse employees of tax evasion
10/19/2013
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…..KCM owes ZRA K136 billion…now wants to recover this amount from employees
Dear Editor
KONKOLA Copper Mines (KCM) vice-president for human capital David Kaunda has cooked a strategy to accuse all KCM employees of not paying tax to Government since 2006.
On our pay slips there is an indication of tax deductions but Mr Kaunda and his masters are saying that we have been paying tax at half rate.
“Surely how can K1, 900 I’m taxed be a half amount of what I ought to give as tax? We hear KCM wants to double the amount we pay as tax for it to be appearing as current and old tax”.
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KCM owes Zambia Revenue Authority about K136.8…
KCM owes Zambia Revenue Authority about K136.8 million or US$25.8 million and this is the debt the company wants to transfer to us.
If KCM has not been taxing us whose fault is that it has been failing to fully tax its employees.
The memo about our tax evasion has been stuck nearly on all notice boards notifying us of how to settle the unpaid tax.
Soon KCM will write us on how we should be paying the tax we have been accused of evading for seven years.
The situation in KCM is bad as nearly all local contractors have their contracts terminated.
We are coming from situation where we were getting half salaries even when we are forced to clock in and out.
KCM is a finished company and is trying by all means to find aid in breathing but it is failing even with employees’…
Pedicle road is the effort of two presidents .The late Mwanawasa planned it and Sata has implemented it, i wish Mwanawasa was succeeded by Sata we would have a continuation in project implementations. Anyway we learnt something from rupiah also praise God for him at least he helped us to sure with Sata.
EVERYONE IN LUAPULA AGREES WITH PF
MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT MR LAWRENCE
EVANS THAT THE OPPOSITION
SHOULD BRACE THEMSELVES FOR
EMBARRASSING DEFEAT IN 2016 GIVEN
THE AMOUNTS OF DEVELOPMENT BEING
IMPLEMENTED BY PRESIDENT MICHAEL
SATA, SAYS LIVINGSTONE WITHIN SUCH
SHORT TIME.