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George Kunda calls for the restoration of Solwezi land agency

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Vice President George Kunda
Vice President George Kunda
Vice President George Kunda has directed that the land agency, which was suspended from the Solwezi municipal council, should be restored with immediate effect.

Mr. Kunda said there was need to lift the suspension of the land agency in order to allow the enterprising people of Solwezi to go ahead with their massive construction activities in the area.

He said people of Solwezi had an enterprising spirit, noting that this was manifested by the number of buildings that are being constructed in the district.

He said this when he addressed a public rally in Kamijiji ward in Solwezi to drum up support for the MMD candidate for Solwezi central constituency Albert Chifita yesterday.

Mr. Kunda said the land agency has been suspended for a long time now, a situation he described as unacceptable by the people of Solwezi who should access land all the time.

He said if the council had engaged itself into corrupt practices in the allocation of land, the matter should be reported to the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) while the land agency continued to work.

Mr. Kunda said the district was transforming at a fast rate, a situation that gave government a challenge to provide more social services, including the development of infrastructure.

He said government was in the process of upgrading Solwezi airport into an international standard in order to develop the area more.

“Tenders have been floated for this project, designs already made and monies budgeted for in the 2010 national budget. We are just waiting for approval,” he said.

Mr. Kunda assured the people of Solwezi central that the MMD government would ensure that it addressed issues that can promote development to the area in their campaigns unlike the opposition PF/UPND pact who are inciting violence.

The Solwezi central parliamentary seat fell vacant over a month ago after the area Member of Parliament, Ben Tetamashimba died.

Other candidates in the November 19th, 2009 are Watson Lumba of the PF/UPND pact, Muhammad Kalela of the forum for Democratic Alternatives (FDA) and Thomas Kafula, who is an independent.

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26 COMMENTS

  1. What a shame …MMD only wants to improve a province when elections are near. What is the MMD record in the past year? How many schools have they built? How are the hospital facilities? Road infrastructure? Employment level? Did the nurses, teachers or doctors get any pay increase? MMD you are Zambia’s nightmare at the moment. Question..has MMD improved the people in Solwezi’s lives in the last 20 years or just sold your assets to the lowest bidders.

  2. Simply put MMD has no strategy. Did they have to wait for TETA to die for them to restore this land legacy? Kunda politics are not in your league, just go back to law practice.

  3. I stand to be corected here, looks like LT has no news about what is going on @ KCM. As for George Kunda, what else do you expect from him honestly!!!!!!

  4. Ba VIP, inokayi cilibuti? Zambians, we have all learnt our lessons. Please, lets think wisely before we vote. Where were all these people all this time for them to come right before elections? It means it will take another election for Solwezi people to see another development!!!!!!!!!

  5. His Honor the Veep statement that the govt has sourced funds to upgrade Solwezi airport to International status is long over due. Despite the on going political campaigns for the Solwezi by elections. There is need to find alternative land to relocate Solwezi Airport to another place far away from town. Its current location is a danger to lives of people should there be an air crash including the noise levels. Solwezi like any other provincial town will not be the same in the next twenty years or so. The Govt should pay attention to this suggestion to relocate the airport to some other area of Solwezi. The current airport area could be converted into either a new commercial/industrial area to decogest the town centre.

  6. You obviously haven`t seen building Kunda if those ramshackles are anything to write home about. By the way, why do Zambians still let politicians talk crap when there is going to be an election? What was Kunda doing all this time about the land agency? Abena Zambia mulifipubafye shuwa! Where was this man?

  7. There is need to us younger energetic Zambians to reflect on what we would like our country to be in 5 years time and come up a strategy of implementing this. If we leave this country in the hand of current politicians (opposition inclusive) the country is doomed forever. We need a new Zambia were we can use our education to create wealth insteady of depending on Donors. We can definately do it. What is required is only WILL POWER. The current problem with politicians is that they no vision for the country but themselves. We can changed things if only we act togather.

  8. ThinkB4UVote Questions, THE OBSERVER, Moderator: I have also been thinking the same, but I read the parliamentary debates and I found some answers to the questions you have raised because they were ministerial questions in our ‘little’ august house apparently. The govt. had allocated funds for rural electrification, school and teacher house building and upgrading of Mbala and Solwezi airport long before Teta passed on. As for construction in Solwezi, I know friends who are not from the area but bought land for houses there when they saw the opportunity with Lumwana mine. Lumwana mine town development has been approved. Go to Solwezi and see for yourselves. There IS development there.

  9. I was ashamed because being in the diaspora, sometimes we criticise from arm chairs. BUT what I still find deplorable in Zambia is the cacophonic nature of building houses. There seems to be no order at all. No sanitary infrasctracture like garbage collection is in place before population of an area takes place. The town planners must have no aesthetic sense at all. A look at Google Earth maps says it all.

  10. Bla bla bla. MMD are losing Solwezi seat to PACT/PF. This is a sign of things to come, we’ll be picking them off one by one. We may not even have to wait as long as 2011.

  11. ba the saint what are talking about .come to south africa and see the townships or shanties.mwilanda landa fye.zambia like other countries need to improve the lives of people but it will be 100% like evrywhere else.the resourses are never enough.google map.what are trying to say

  12. 11 The SAINT, i agree with you entirely. I doubt there is a need for one to obtain planning permission, hence the transformation of Lusaka into one huge shanty town. On Cairo road we have a couple of decent well planned structures, then when you decend the bridge towards Kamwala you are hit by these monstrosities built by (No racial slur intended, just fact) Indians, with all sorts of bright colours! Even Freedom way looks ghastly. Soon we’ll be like Nigeria or Tanzania – one big kamwala market!

  13. I have yet to hear something sensible coming out of Kunda’s mouth. Now he is using the Solwezi land agency as a campaign tool. How dull can one be.

  14. Shame on George.MMD is going whether Kunda likes it or yes.Why talk about land Agency today.Didnt you know that it was srapped.U think Zambians are fools.KUYABEBELE!

  15. MMD leadrs are behaving like opportunists. While the uplifting of solwezi Land Agency is long over due George Kunda should not use it as a campaign strategy. Gladys Nyirongo revocked the Agency but the she was the one amasing plots for herself and her relatives. Leaders should stop taking advantage of circumstances that affect the people that they lead. I urge the people of Solwezi Central to receive all the gifts from MMD but on the voting day vote for the PACT/PF

  16. The land agency has remained dissolved for some time now. Why should someone talk of restoring it now when the elections are a week away. This is childish thinking!

  17. fumbi
    For your information, I have lived (i mean lived, not studied or toured) in Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, South Africa, New Zealand, Germany, Austria, Trinidad and Tobago, USA (Florida), Germany, Belgium, UK and visited Hong Kong and Zimbabwe and there is one theme in all these places that stands out. What amabunu plannned and built is orderly and what ama boyi na bamwenye, build is mostly disorderly, chaotic and untidy! It is a simple fact. Look at Zambian towns before independence and after, they all speak volumes about how we build. My Nigerian friends tell me the same story.

  18. Here is good news: Bank of Zambia Governor, Dr Caleb Fundanga says we now have the highest FOREX reserves in 38 years!
    1.mining is projected to grow by 21 per cent
    2. construction by 15.5 per cent.
    3. agriculture by 7.1 percent. 4. production of milk increased by 14.9 per cent to 7,923,382 litres from 6,892,785 l.
    5. tourism also registered an increased number of arrivals at the country’s four international airports to 102,918 passengers from 88,066 passengers in the second quarter of 2009. 6.

  19. Dr Fundanga said total investment pledges in the real estate sector stood at US$622.8million, compared to US$567.2 million in the second quarter.

    He said when fully executed, the pledges were expected to generate 5,594 jobs.
    Jealous down! Aphika nsima a Banda!

  20. The day after a verdict had been entered against Chiluba for plundering Zambian state coffers, his lawyer Sangwa rushed to Judge Chinyama’s chambers, demanding that the judge reconsiders his verdict. He said that he had new evidence that made a huge difference in his defense. “What new evidence could you have?” asked Chinyama, to which Sangwa replied, “My client has an extra US$8 million grudas, and I just found out about it.” That’s how Chinyama imprumptly postponed his verdict from Friday to Monday and delivered a different and hand written verdict leaving him US$8 million richer and a judiciary in disarray.

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