North-Western Province Minister, Joseph Mulyata was today incensed with the roads department for abandoning earth moving machines in the bush instead of utilizing them to improve roads.
The visibly annoyed Minister said it is painful on the part of government to see equipment on which government spent a lot of money being abandoned in the bush without any government officer or caretaker looking after them.
Mr Mulyata expressed the disappointment when he found the new government earth moving machines marooned at Kisasa area in Solwezi west constituency along the road leading to Senior Chief Musele with only a villager left to look after them.
He said the excuse that they can not work on the roads because of the rains was not acceptable because there are certain portions where the machines could be used even during the rainy season.
He said it is sad to find that the equipment is lying idle in the bush when some portions of the roads are being washed away by the rains.
Mr Mulyata who was on his way to pay a courtesy call on Senior Chief Musele of the Lunda people in Solwezi at his palace yesterday took some time to inspect the machines and interviewied the villagers found at the scene.
He was accompanied by Provincial Administrative Officer, Kabinga Nondo, Solwezi District Administrative Officer, Benson Kapumo and journalists.
‘Since the villagers are saying the officers left the equipment on November 26, last year and are saying they would only get back in April, this would mean the machines would remain idle for half the year which is not acceptable,’ the minister said.
Mr. Mulyata expressed fear that some spare parts of the machines may start missing hence rendering them useless if they are left in the bush for too long.
The Minister has since assured the chief that he would make sure that the officers get back to the site and continue with the works.
Senior Chief Musele in echoing the minister said the officers abandoned the machines after working on only a three kilometer stretch.
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Put Teta on this equip.
twafya lelo :((:((:((
oh sory eee :d:d:d
You mean they have been idle FOUR months?
Thats ZED for you. Next, those machines will be vandalised and our tax will have gone down the drain. Finshi tufwaya kanshi??
maybe he had better plans for them who knows but shii:-$:-$
Sir take them where there needed
Anything to do with Tax payer’s money makes me fume with rage. Why did they buy those machines in the first place if they had no use for them? A lot of money was spent on these whatever only to be abandoned carelessly. Above all, it had to take the minister to notice this trend. Where were the relevant authorities? Oh i forgot, This is Zed am not suprised.
They were probably taken there during the election to clear the roads for MMD campaigners. Poor North westerners they thought this was development being brought given all their support. Anyway at least one villager has been employed, unemployement rate is now down to 99% :d/
RB, how come the roads in Northwestern are being cared for and Luapula is languishing? This type of discrimination brings hate and civil problems. STOP this Nonsense. Luapula is part of Zambia too. Teta is lying to you. You will be shocked soon when things change. KK did not want to develop Luapula and Northen, Chiluba tried and started. Levy came in and reversed all that Chiluba did for these two provinces. Are you going to do the same?
No maybe eleven or twelve months
What the @$ is he complaining about? isn’t he responsible for the province?
His job is to make sure such things are utilized, not just organising poor women to dance whenever the president shows up( once every 5 years )
#4 Ikali iyo
Ba Maureen
Teti ankwanishe LT mudala! :-w
Even with equipment its difficult to manage them. Bushe bana tilowa olo nichani ?
#14 Ku fisa mu sentence bakamba. LT should just allow us go ahead. Its some form of Trademark ka
Just give the machines to me so that I can you them as tourist attractions in Eastern province :-j:-j:-j.Its like you you have no use for them.
How I wish our men folk were like the equipment in Solwezi!! we would reduce on HIV/AIDS
Atleast the equipment is stable, if it were other provinces the tyres, hydrolic pumps, blades and other parts would have gone missing. However lets put this equipment to good use please.
Is this the works of rural roads unit if so then it falls under works and supply.
Most officers working for the department in question are rich pipo. They are always in court for various resons involving cash and dubious contracts etc. Its difficulty to tell who they work for.
#18 That statement is gender insensitive because it wholly attributes the spread of HIV/AIDS to men meanwhile women are to blame also. Have you seen men lining up along Addis Ababa avenue or that road near Fairview Hotel flagging down cars for a quickie ?
#22
I agree 100% 😕
#19. lets hit the nail on its head. If the equipment were from Luapula and Northern Province, it would have disappreared. Na tola fye. thanx Lundas and Kaondes. you are not thieves.
Ba Maureen. Those women by addis ababa would not be there the market was not there. If only our men would lock their shrivelled fruits, what a better world we would live in. For now they are the real vectors!!
My fear is chaps from other provinces will rush to NWP to strip those graders!!
this guy does not know anythinf bout road woeks those things cant do gud works when the roads are wet
#25 Yeah, whatever ! Egg and chicken ( which came first )
#26 Now thats tribal. Are you ok Today Lady Chiza’s Legs ?
There are no people to operate the machines. Teta is not doing his duties
# Maureen (More Lean) feed the chicken to give you better and bigger eggs!!
Tetamashimba must be dissapponted with this news. He talks to much.Let him comment on this.
Fire them. You are busy trying to score points (by talking to the press) instead of finding the culprit, investigating the issue and if necessary firing the guy. That is what Sata would have done. Give us another story LT. :-@
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You are just exposing your ignorance with your thinking. AIDS is not a disease peddled by men and neither is it peddled by women. If you are thinking in the line of promiscuity, which may be a major route, then your understanding of the illness is limited and a danger to yourself and others.
Walasanguka ichipupa with your thinking my dear.
Do these provincial ministers or District Commissioners get any briefings from departmental heads on what is going on? From the report Mulyata simply stumbled on the equipment which has been lying idle since November 2008.No wonder we seem to be moving in circles and not developing the country.What are these people paid for? political patronage?
:d/
Mulyata should have been in the news after firing some incompetent guys who are supposed to be in charge of the equipment. There is no way equipment can just lie there without someone being in charge of the same. If the individual realised there is no logistics for the machine to be on site why not park them at some govt yard. But this is just to show us how this govt is careless and negligent to the core. They only rise and work when they hear PF is about to demonstrate over something. Roads have been impassable time immemorial and when equipment is available it is left to rot, what type of animals are we as zambians. Surely god will continue letting us be at the mercy of investors.
Those who are in the contruction industry will tell you that there is not much you can do with wet soils Mr. Minister. Yes, I agree with you that the equipment should be well taken care of, but with rains pouring, earthwork becomes impossible!!!
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The equipment could probably be from a grant or loan which we needs to be paid. But come to think of it we are not utilising the equipment. We need a total mind shift in the way we do things here in zambia.
Meanwhile RB will hear of it and not take action or let alone comment on the same. However when he takes his clan for a holiday multitudes will rise and support him and lecture to us how he needs the holiday to recharge, MY FOOT. We need to move out of this shell of being careless with resources which others are using to change the world. We are too wasteful.
#27 ka gelo.
so if they cant work on the roads now because of the rains then those machines must just be dumped and abandoned.are you sure you pay tax coz i dont think you would talk like that if you did,thats irresponsibility why not move them even to a nearest police station where they can be safe.
n’way nipa zed n its a free zed.kulapenapena fye anytime one feels like.those things are damn expensive,one must have thought well before abandoning them in the bush.
#39 KCM…
You are talking real sence,ama zedians we have a big problem we4 cry for things and when we have them we then have no use for them.we surely have to change our mind sets.zed can really be a better place if only change started in our minds manje awe… tikali kutali.its like we are just used to everything that goes on and we forget that change is inevitable.
Baby C – No. 8: It makes me mad too to hear stories like this all the time. But what would make me even more upset would be the fact that those machines were being donated by other governments to help improve Zambia living standards. What would the people in the donor countries say if they heard stories like this? Wouln’d they have reason to be REALLY upset?
Typical work culture of the Zambian!He thinks only of what he can do for himself and not what he can do for the country!
Getting upset only is not a solution discipline them so that they learn to be productive for the 40hrs per week they assumingly claim they worked and in the end get paid for no work done.
upset?these things have been there for a long time as one can see!if the minister had spent more time on the ground than in his office warming that seat he would have already dealt with this matter.upset?we don’t need the minister’s “upsetness”we need goood roads!get to work!!! :-l:-l:-l