Government, through the Ministry of Works and Supply, has released K3.9 billion to Chongwe district in Lusaka province.
The money is for construction of an office block for government departments and 10 houses for public service workers in the district.
Lusaka province deputy permanent secretary Conrad Tembo disclosed this in an interview with ZANIS.
Mr. Tembo said K2 billion will be spent on the construction of the office block while the remainder will go towards the construction of the 10 houses.
He said tender procedures are underway for the commencement of the project.
Mr. Tembo said like other districts in the province, Chongwe has been facing a serious shortage of office and staff accommodation.
He said however that government was determined to address the situation through constructing office blocks and houses for public workers in the province using available resources.
Meanwhile, Mr. Tembo has called on councils in the province to take advantage of the road equipment which government procured recently from China to improve the feeder road network in their respective areas.
Speaking in Luangwa when he paid a courtesy call on acting District Commissioner Musole Siachisa, Mr. Tembo said councils were free to request for the road equipment from the provincial administration to work on the roads in their areas as long as they met the cost of fuel and other logistics.
He said the equipment is already making a positive impact on a number of roads which were devastated by floods during the last rainy season in parts of Lusaka city, Chongwe and Luangwa districts.
Earlier, Mr. Siachisa told the deputy permanent secretary that the poor state of the Luangwa road from the bridge to the boma remained one of the major hindrances to the development of the district.
Mr. Siachisa also called on government to help alleviate the problem of office and staff accommodate for civil servants in the area.
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Just came to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, I really don’t have the time & desire to read or comment on any stories today…be good everyone & see you later. Naya mukunwa.
#2 GOOD CALL!!!!!
Merr x-mas bloggers.
Good move, but please handle the “… tender procedures are underway for the commencement of the project” carfully.
Let those who will be awarded contracts to perform this task show the commitment on how they will do a good job and do it on time to avoid unfinised businesses or protracted constracts.
To those working on the roads, why is it the every year after the floods or rains you have to re-do the roads? Is there a possible great work that can help us minimise on such which appears to be waste of resources?
Nine Chale, naine ndeumfwa na guilty. I’m organising a big boxing day party elo ku Mumbwa balelya mango no mumbu.
Dear bloggers, “MERRY X-MAS & FRUITFUL 2009”. May you all celebrate wisely.
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I said <:-p everyone
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MERRY X-MAS to ALL the LT BLOGGERS!
Is the Office of District Commissioner constitutional? If so, does it mean any opposition party that will win in 2011 will have to keep the office? If not constitutional, does it mean all those DCs will refund us all the money {salaries} they have illegally received for the past seven years? Please somebody help me.
Its happy X-mas to all. am already 3hrs into xmas day… WISHING ALL THE BLOGGERS A BIG BANG X-MAS… too sad for the Zedians eating mangoes… I feel for them.. <:-p<:-p<:-p<:-p<:-p<:-p<:-p<:-p
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With the looming high mealie meal prices, the govt should slap a special tax on chibuku related products.we can not afford to push the demand for maize high because of chibuku…related products
#2, not ukunwa sana.., all the same Merry x-mas to you and your family.. and remember to drive safely, don’t want you to be one of the festive statistics….. [-([-(:-h[-o<[-o<:o:o
“I DESERVE A HOLIDAY BECAUSE I HAVE REDUCED MEALIE-MEAL PRICES”, SAYS NYAMA SOYA..
Nice move? even civil servants deserve decent housing and i hope they build more houses.
GRZ when are you going to say THANK YOU to president Hakainde Hichilema who wrote President RB Banda containing ways of improving our limping economy. It is sad to note that the Kwacha currency rate to the US Dollar has now surpassed or is about to where former President Chiluba left it with us in 2011.
Let us learn to say thank you any help that comes our way. After all, the MMD GRZ is the one that requested for help from the opposition with solutions to the Global/National Financial Crises that we are facing as Zambians and Zambia.