Government has embarked on the construction of a multi- billion kwacha housing project in Misisi compound as part of the expansion of Lusaka Central Business District.
Local government Permanent Secretary Timothy Hakuyu said this when he appeared before the parliamentary committee on government assurances, Tuesday.
Mr Hakuyu has assured the people in Misisis and Kuku Compounds that they will be compensated through the housing project.
He added that the residents will not pay rentals for the government houses.
Mr Hakuyu told the committee that this is part of the expansion of Lusaka City.
He further said that a business complex has already been designed.
And National Housing Authority Chief Executive Officer Elias Mpondela said a Chinese company called China National Complete Trans Import and Export group will take part in the construction project.
Mr Mpondela said the project which will cost 200 million US dollars will take six years to be completed.
ZNBC
Is this the picture of new Misisi Compound. Well done MMD. LOL.
it will be better if they make ifima flats atleast 5 floors, ifimidada. that way mu town mukalamoneka bwino…anyway i don´t care about lusaka ine ni ne kopala ku ndola.
People are really desparate for Lusaka votes as it has the highest number of registered voters. what about Copperbelt,Mongu and other places? Fattening a cow on the market day.kekeke ine nseko,kekeke!!! 2011!
“He added that the residents will not pay rentals for the government houses”. How do they intend to maintain these houses if no one will pay rent? who will fund this project??
This must be the most interesting election year ever. #4 futureZed, has asked a vital question on how the houses will be maintained. Existing government buildings are in deplorable state, most of them have never had a fresh coat of paint since they were constructed, not even to mention the roads network and drainage system, the list goes on and on. This so called Misisi housing project is nothing but a campaign strategy, just like the cheap talk of building of a modern hospital and high schools in WP. Zambians cannot be fooled forever. Very soon they will promise us holiday trips to the moon.
THIS HAS TO BE THE BIGGEST JOKE OF THE YEAR.WHAT DOEA EXPANSION MEAN?REPLACING DILAPIDATED HOMES WITH NEW ONES WITHIN THE SAME SPACE CANNOT BE EXPANSION OF LSK CBD.
THESE FU.CKERS ARE REALLY DESPERATE FOR VOTES,THEY ARE NOT EVEN INTELLIGENT ENOUGH NTO REALISE THAT LUSAKA IS NOT ZAMBIA AND WHEN OTHER CITIZENS FROM OTHER PROVINCES RISE UP TO DEMAND A PIECE OF THE NATIONAL CAKE THEY ARE GESTAPOED WITH TREASON,WHAT A PATHETIC GOVT
yes pliz we need those houses but the votes just forget about them we are giving them to sata…we have already learnt ati DONCHI KUBEBA.
RB a transformational people’s president driving national growth and opportunity with unprecedented record while opponents are drunk with insults.
He forgot to mention when the project will commence or maybe its the usual maddog diarrhoea
This is a stolen PF policy, which was heavily criticized by the MMD.
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These are Sata’s ideas that RB and Co are espousing! Sata said this along time ago (that where do you find someone coming into the City and first thing is a shanty)! Only in Zambia. Now RB is thinking PF! Maybe he should join us mubwato!
No. 10 Kapata:
AMEN!
These are the same guys who can’t even account for money meant to build houses for our retired Presidents, and now they are talking about building homes for the common man?! Who will be in charge of the project? RB’s sons? Ke ke ke ke ke ke ke…..!! I will only believe these sorts of campaign gimmicks when I see actual houses standing, NOT ELECTION YEAR TALK!!!!!!
I think I can relate to Tito smoetimes when we come in to a new thing, it is hard to conceive of how to proceed into the unknown. Does he have access to local human resources to help him get ideas to move forward? Is there any communication between the three groups you are working with, to help each other?
Sata’s ideas being hijacked! Go Sata,go!
If they are using this as a campagn strategy let them build the houses but when voting please vote wisely. Banda himself said you should accept the gifts money or otherwise but do not give them your vote!
Expanding Lusaka CBD to Misisi with housing when Kamwala is the nearest residential area to the CBD! Does the government understand the meaning of CBD? And people claim that there are no “planners” in Zambia; surely, which planner would like to work with such mediocre leaders who do not even understand what they want to do? Desparation indeed. Well, there is still massive under utilised buildings and or land within the current CBD in Lusaka. However, who would like to go there when there is no physical infrastructure warranting full use of the CBD? Sad indeed!! Or shall I say, no Fwaka.
PF kaponyas without face value, Where did you ever see a Sata policy in this world which even HH has never seen despite endless plea to harmonize them as measure of avoiding abortion of pact? Education is power not kaponyalism. Get educated leaders that a retarded sub 2.
Good plans but If people won’t pay rent,how is the govt going to recover the money sent on construction and servicing the area?
Iwe No. 17 Veteran (must be VJ not Veteran)! not all of us are Kaponyas and not all of us see things in only PF- we are Zambians first and foremost and PF fiollows! However, when government introduces good policies, we will applaud and give you more plans that we have! Wait 11/11/11 election day!
Imwe guys please. This is development. Hakuyu is the preceeding LCC town clark. Good dude, works hard.
In other words ma compound will be replaced with business structures (practically). To be fair and realistic, so much has happened in the last two years. The future of Zambia is very intriguing. The copper price has now reached $10,000 per ton
Sata is confused by RBs educated approach, efficiency and effeciveness.
Pa last ma sapota ba sata niku tukwana chabe chisalako! and being sceptical!
I have booked OUT!!!
Whilst opposition are busy barking aimlessly without plans for the nation, the RB administration is busy at work drawing up plans and implementing many developmental projects. This is a good project. It’ll raise land values and bring in investment. One has to work in real estate to understand the importance of land values. Even putting up a nice rose garden on your property raises your land value. Such a project will prove to be good for the business complex designed seeing that people in offices would like to have a good view as this relaxes them during work as opposed to an eyesore. This is also essential in raising land values.
cont from #23
Understand what is at work before you criticize. Opposition see politics in everything. They cannot think beyond elections. That is why they have no development plans for the nation. It is because there mind cannot think beyond politics. They do not have a vision of development beyond politics. They have no imaginative mind but would rather politicize every single issue because they cannot think beyond that.
How bout kalingalinga,john lain,matero,chawama,mtendere, garden,chainda etc etc , hundreds of compounds suffocating lusaka.
ma labishi!!!!~X(
RB’s spirited pro development leadership approach to politics has left Sata used to insulting matches mesmerised to the point of irrelevancy, desperation, frustration and now xenophobia for American diplomats he sees as MMD partners in his imaginary rigging scheme. When invited to attend the new American Embassy, he started seing rigging at that commeration ceremony in Ibex Hill.
Ala ni pabwato(PF) this year.We want equal pay
This is the year of change, MMD kuya bebele.Vote wisely fellow Zambians.Zambia is not for sale.
Are they trying to hoodwink residents of Misisi, developing the CBD means the Central Business District, it means THROWING THEM OUT TO ALLOW FOR BUSINESS TO TAKE UP THAT LAND!! Hence tricking them with “Free rent!!” Yes MMD keep on being slippery!!!
Yes the Chinese will throw a few dollars around in return for cheap minerals that now we are made to believe our Ministry of Finance or Treasury, has really NO IDEA OF WHAT IS BEING TAKEN OUT OF THE COUNTRY, this govt seems CONTENT ON RECEIVING BREADCRUMBS, which they promptly lay their fingers in !!
I don’t understand is a central business district a housing project?
Only Fwaka #16 has made the most sensible contribution till now. Mwe bantu look at acronym CBD and understand what a CBD actually is. Where in the world is a CBD full of nothing else but housing?
Cobra’s plan is to demolish Misisi, kuku, kamwala without compensation and taking the affected residents to their villages.No mention of any building after demolitions by the kaponyas has been made.
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MMD kuya bebele! Ruphia is suffering from pre senile Dementia, he can not even remember that he was in Kasama. Senior Citizen aka Veteran, Capitalist. Zinduma you guys I don’t know whether you suffer from diarrhoea of the brain (Paranoid Schizophrenia). The visual and auditory hallucinations complicated by the fear of unknown of known make you contribute not from you heads. Surely what has Ruphia done that Zambians will remember him for? Corruptions, Zamtel, single sourcing at state House, protecting thugs and those who (chiluba) have committed crime against humanity.Abuse of state institutions for political and person gains. arrogancy and deceit. Global trotter. The man who have aquired billions in shortest period of time.Protector of those who mistreat Zambians. the list is endless
Is this the beginning of the vision 2030 master plan for the development of Lusaka? I can’t wait to see this come to fruition. Atleast ka Lusaka can look much betterko. It doesn’t matter who implements this development plan, what we need is a better Lusaka. Next should be Chibolya, Chaisa and Mandevu. Go RB and whoever will come after you.
No 1,that picture is …kafue round about looking towards main bus/rail stations! Look again.
Trust the MMD at your peril. How can these guys handle such a major project when they cannot even handle floods in the city of Lusaka which only require good drainage design and proper roads so that cars and other vehicles do not keep on digging potholes?
In any case, there ie need to redesign Lusaka so that there is de-congestion by setting up smarter business districts around Lusaka, supported by ring roads and in future, commuter trains.
This is like a disaster coming.Which CBD in the world has infill of residential housing?IT sounds as if the only purpose is expanding the tiny CBD just for better “skyline” and bragging rights.Cities with real CBD’s are done by private sectors and gov’ts just provide infrastructure.I’d rather we have a small but clean,well supplied and maintained CBD rather than a Lagos style monster.This will be a traffic nightmare in the future if you centralize too much.
This guy say says “Government has embarked on the construction of a multi- billion kwacha housing project in Misisi compound as part of the expansion of Lusaka Central Business District”. In the other paragraph he goes —— “the design of the complex has already been completed” What does he mean when he says Government has embarked on the construction of the complex when they have not even started the constructions?
At long last, something sensible. Hope they build something worthwhile and not overpriced like the other phi houses. That way Kopala can be accomodated when he’s transfered to lusaka
These are projects we should have been accustomed to by now, it doesn’t matter who started them or who’s idea it is, lets’ just move forward we are tired of threading other countries. sata had the idea RB wants to implement it at long last, thanks it’s been long overdue.
GRZshould declare Msisi compoound a disater area. Building residential flats will not solcve anything instead that area should comprise something like the Levy Junction park. GRZ should find alternative land and build low cost houses and relocate those affected. Most of the petty thieves in town come from nearby compounds. This should also apply to Chibolya and Kamwala Prison and surrounding area. You mean GRZ cannot find alternative land a build a modern prison say near state lodge or Shantumbu. Lets not forget that just like a mortuary one day one will find himself there either self or relatives. Every person who is alive is a would be potential prisoner.
# 11 MB its not only in zambia. by the way PF or MMD policy i really ddnt care if it will better the misisi and lusaka people then im up for it. Rome was not built in a day.
Msisi compound is within the commecial area.CBD seems will not be a housing project that area might just be extended into a central business place.Look at the way traders at comesa market are over crowded they even cover one lane of Lumumba road causing traffic Jam along lumumba road.I just wonder whether the authorities are waiting for a tragedy to happen.The way they have built manda hill is the way town centre was suppose to be,such that no motorist will be going round town looking
for a parking slot.
This project is a non starter as there is no date whn the work will start. is it there in the budget or just same propaganda by govt in election year. Free accomodation for cadres or wht and when wil ths be extended to other parts of the country b4 we are charged for treason by demanding ths
These guys are in such a hurry to try and hoodwink us into believing that they are working they are ending up talking about things they do not even understand. You cant expand the CBD by building housing projects. As noted by #16 do they know what CBD means? Also why is this being mentioned only now that the elections are upon us? History has it that there is usually a lot of hot ir blown in election years so if you are smart you wouldnt believe any of this till work is seen physically being done on the ground!
Don’t make high buildings when no Lusaka water can not provide enough water pressure for sanitation. it will be a another garbage dump.
CBD stands for central business district. businesses not houses bane.
Our undergraduate students’ work has revealed that the masses want shanties demolished and replaced with different business and well designed residential structures including some similar to the one planned in Misisi. They reveal too that whilst it is ok to have satellite CBDs in different suburbs of Lusaka, a CBD does not mean residential flats. The students are still researching whether other shanties will be treated the same with free housing…The once beautiful Kafue round about is now an eyesore. Kamwala should have been the first place to be transformed.
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Guys let us wait and see when these free houses will be constructed. Free house they have said…mhh guys , I think it will be great for the misis dwelers. They will have free houses for life. well done RB lol.
haha…. Misisi dwelers remember when voting its DONCHI KUBEBA. hahaha.
iye uluse. ba MMD na bapena i think
Naine nadabwa, what is CBD really? I thought they should be saying they will relocate showgrounds to build a new CDB altogether. CDB has nothing to do with housing but business bane………
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