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Government’s failure to tar the Kashikishi -Luwingu road has unsettled Chienge Member of Parliament Katele Kalumba.

Dr. Kalumba has also expressed concern on Government’s failure to release the 23 billion kwacha meant for road rehabilitation works in Luapula Province.

The MP expressed surprise at why the central treasury has not disbursed the funds in question to the region when it was budgeted for.

Dr. Kalumba who is also MMD National Secretary said this Wednesday when Luapula province Minister Boniface Kawimbe met civic leaders.

The lawmaker says roads in the region are impassable and this has affected the transportation of agricultural produce to the market place.

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84 COMMENTS

  5. At least PF has a campaign issue to take to Luapula concerning the under development of Luapula by ka Chiluba and the fake promises by nyamaSoya. At least LPM build Chembe or Sorry LPM Bridge. all turn coat PF MP’s in luapula will loose the By elections for failing to push for development. They were pre -occupied with fighting Mr. Sata for nothing. they will be taught a lesson.

  8. This is why tourism in Luapula can not progress. Simple things like an untarred road makes it difficult for people to get around. What ever happened to the air strip in Mansa? Why isn’t that functioning? Livingstone and Mfuwe aren’t the only cornerstones of tourism! :-w

  10. At least you care for the pipo of Luapula mwati niulya coucillor wa kuChipata Na Minister wakwe Basalapo Bike.Ba Moze Is even proud ati Nicoka ku Eastern. :-j:-j:-j:-j

  11. How can Govt tar the road when you danced on the money with your fellow Plunderers ? Just concentrate on defending yourself against the Nchitos.

  12. Yes. Having budgeted for that project is possible. But it is the issue of implementation. This requires the Project Manager who is Katele and other Project Staff (the community) to find out from the Finance Manager (Ministry of Finance) whether they can go ahead with the implementantion on an activity.

    So Katele should know as a lawmaker from what sources they are financing the road. Let him explain to the people that he has failed them as he is not following up matters for his constituency

  13. WHY CANT HE USE HIS MAGIC TO SOFTEN THESE PEOPLE`S HEARTS SO THAT MONEY CAN BE RELEASED FAST JUST LIKE HE USED IT TO MAKE THEM FORGET AND PARDON HIM

  14. Sweet thang
    Dont worry Tourism in Luapula is booming,We have Monkies as tourist attractions,though Abena Chipata thinks ati ni ndiyo.Katele Push them they have to tar our roads we dont want ZB to stop delivering the Commodity to our Precious province like want has Happened Kumushi kuli ba Mo….zambique. :-j:-j:-j:-j

  15. Matworld,Ba Moze,Sweet Thang,Sony Ericsson, ati bwanji guys.Now Kalumba is complaining as if he is not the senior member of the ruling party. the man lacks seriousness.

  19. **==**==**==

    #2 chemical ali, your comment is consistent,you ar funny!!

    Katele is a man of action,atlast he makes efforts besides the known scandle he performed,that was terrible mr kalumba!!!!

  21. Ba Katele its good that now u can see why pipo are so annoyed with your so call MMD, if you one of them can complain what of us ….

  26. Matworld

    Dont think shilemona efyo ule voka mudala! Am watching you ka?

    Rashid

    Ati how mwana? Ku Gaza ati bwanji?

  28. are you sure mr Katele first clean up those allegations and pipo will listern to you but as now u are one of the “…..” until proven innocent or guilt

  30. Ba Moze, people were just allowed to rest in Gaza for omly 3(three)hours,imagine.im worried about my trelatives there but i just put everything in GOD’s hands. nkani ya ba KK 11(chipolopolo) yilibwanji kansi?

  33. this picture of Katele is harassing me. it makes me feel as feel am having a nightmare and this guy is pushing to strungle me. what with the stories of him being invisible, leaving behind an anthill and people could not see him or being able to see all the going ons in Lusaka from his laptop in Chienge. **==

  34. # 13. Very funny.

    This road has remained untarred for a long time. Maybe the MP is not doing enough especially now that he is raising the alarm towards the end of the country’s financial year.Katele knows too well how difficult it is for govt to release funds around this time despite the project being budgeted for.

    Let someone else takeover the leadership in Chienge maybe things will change for the better.

  35. You dont know how this goverment works. That road will never be tarred because the residents voted for PF. Remember how Katele was was asked to give a report on why the MMD lost in his area??

  36. Ba Moze
    Kanshi Ulipolipo Mudala,Ididnt see you.

    Rashid Jones.

    Iam also worried mwandi mudala.Manje na Lebanon has joined.

  37. **==**==**==

    #22 matworld

    =d>=d> its good you are back to nice guy, mwense boys was threatening! i thot we have an impersonator in our midst….

    my bro am tod zed is 2goals down to warton sudan,comfirm…

  38. the man is so right. Its time that luapula was considered again for developmental projects. I think the problem we have is that the gvt tends to over-concentrate on particular parts of the country at each particular time. i mean under FTJ luapula had the best roads in the country and now i think the road to mongu is the best.

  39. If Kalumba(MMD secretary General) is complaining, what more MPs from the opposition? this government is a shame to Zambans

  40. #33.Anonymous.

    Dont worry my dear the man is safe,He will not do anything to you.The story of the laptop and living mu anthill is true,but its not what you think(witchcraft) The man was doing some reseach on wireless connections(internet.Check his CV he has done IT as well.
    :-j:-j:-j:-j:-j(support your local team)

  41. Jenks spear says
    Hey That news has really disturbed me,that is why iam trying to defend Katele Though I know that He is a culprit of what pipo are saying on the site.

  43. He wants the MMD presidency and he thinks we have forgotten that he is a witch. How cheap can one get when he has been an MP for that area for 17years. The thief is just playing on people’s minds. Why can’t RB just tell him to shut up just like Levy Mwanawasa used to tell him and I quote: ‘Just shut up, you are the same people who were misleading Chiluba’! Levy was straight brave and very logical but people never understood him. Now Katele is talking, could he do it when Levy was alive?

  47. #43 But why are you praising LPM when everyone still does not know why LPM on one side was fighting corruption and on the other side courting plunderers. If the MMD had a code of conduct or whatever you want to call it, this guys should not be allowed to lead God’s people. Christian nation, when others are trying to beat Bill Gates at his game by making a T-Laptop (Traditional Laptops, that is). NS has no guts to face this ‘webmaster’

  51. I thought Katele is one of Govt big Guys why get concerned when you when you know what to do with your with your fellow Leaders.
    You are more than a simple local councillor from some simple local areas. Do what you know best. :((:((:((:((:”>:”>

  57. The problem is our leaders only complain when it affects them. Am sure he only noticed that after going there for his personal gains. Shame on him after serving in the government for so long without presenting anything postive to talk about apart from his witch craft. The man is a dissapointment

    Ba Doctor what a lose

  58. all you guys speaking agnist kalumba wait [-x[-x you will see what happens at NIGHT eee8-x8-x8-x:((:((:((=)) lelo

  59. Katele, this guy with his blood uncle Chiluba have a lot of cases to answer for. The treasury has no money because of them. How Katele, Chiluba and Mwanawasa put the Zambian Oil sector in their pockets will come out when real corruption will be tackled by Zambian.This day is fast approaching. Katele, Chiluba are finished. People know who they are. They have never done anything in the interest of Zambia. MMD knows them, PF knows that these are self serving hypocrites and worse of all they can not even afford to form their own political party because they have even lost the political base in Luapula to PF. MMD chase Katele.

  61. #38..commander.

    the man is so right. Its time that luapula was considered again for developmental projects. I think the problem we have is that the gvt tends to over-concentrate on particular parts of the country at each particular time. i mean under FTJ luapula had the best roads in the country and now i think the road to mongu is the best.

    I think you are misiformed. Chiluba did nothing for Luapula except for the toy feeling station he put at his village. the tarred roads you are talking about were built by Kaunda ( 1985-87).

    Nothing chiluba will be rememberd for in luapula. At least LMP build a bridge. So imagine from 1987 nothing have been done on roads in luapula..its terible

  62. #61 conts

    Nothing chiluba will be rememberd for in luapula. At least LMP build a bridge. So imagine from 1987 nothing have been done on roads in luapula..its terible man, Thats why the totoise Doctor has come out of hiding to question what is going on with money budgeted for Luapula.

    Is it because Luapula did not vote for MMD??..But Luapula always votes are split between PF and MMD. There must be a different reason fo that i think.

    ..
    :-w:-w:-w:-w

  65. Katele is right if money was budgeted for such development works in Luapula then it should be given out. why keeping money for some provinces and be selective on others?
    One zambia one nation **==**==

  66. Zambians roads are among the most pathetic ones in Southern Africa! The L/stone-Zimba is an example and we cannot have a government that does not know what the word “priority” means or what “tourist capital” means too! How can you neglect a road linking the toruist capital and the captal of the country like that? I could not belive it when I drove on tbis road last week! Are we at war for a country to have a road like that?

    Katele is right because someone in govt is not doing the job. They all need to be booted out! The road Katele is talking about has taken GRZ six years to tar only 80 km! Now that LPM is no mre the people of Luwingu shold just forget!

  67. The state of the road after Nchelenge is an insult to the people who live there. I was shocked that there was not even a single borehole. The people still get their water from the wells. DO THESE POLITICIANS REALLY CARE FOR THE WELFARE OF PEOPLE? I think the policy of getting 4X4’s for the politicians must end. Let them also use public transport.

  68. KATELE IS THE ONLY POLITICIAN THAT HAS WON MY ADMIRATION DESPITE HIS PAST MISTAKES.I SERIOUSLY THINKING OF HANDING OVER THE PRESIDENCY TO HIM SINCE HE HAS GENUINELY REPENTED.

  69. These are fair concenrs by Dr Katele Kalumba.

    Why is GRZ failing to release the due money? Please, reduce on the number people who unnecessarily accompany the President and then channel the money normaly paid to them to Mr MP K. Kalumba’s issue together with other’s!

    ======
    LT 2008 Award Winner. =;.

  70. Is the K23bn sitting in an account somewhere? Are all the prerequisites in place for its release? Is there an agreed project plan with verifiable and enforceable milestones? Have the contractors been selected etc etc. There is more to this than writing a cheque. If Dr K wants us to pay attention, he should provide more facts.

  71. I thought this guy was finance minister and an MMD bigwig also MP for the same area he is talking about so what happend why didnt he use the tricks of hiding under a tree with a laptop with no battery. I think we have too many MP’s that are past there sale by date and Katele is one of them.

  72. Luapula is the province with the greatest potential for growth, loads of able and cheap labour (most densely populated rural province). Potential for huge clean renewable energy, minerals certainly present. Samfya beach will beat any in the Carribean.

    Good arable land with loads of free water falling from the sky, and even game parks to go with it all.

    But KK tried to improve the lot for the province, all major infrastructure is from those days. World banks reports on the province are very favorable and funding can be easy to put together. Zedians, in the recession GRZ will do well to spend on major infrastructure projects rather than nationalising mines for the chinese and indians

  73. katele must be disciplined by his party for bringing his party into redicle. How can he question why the Govt is not releasing money for road rehabilitation in Luapula, the MMD Govt is his Govt. He is one and part of it.If he questions the Govt then he is questions himself. He is infact surppose to provide answers to that effect.

  74. Katele doesnt stop amazing me. this man is speaking as if not a member of NEC. Are we to suppose that it is self-admission of being in political oblivion?.

  76. All development projects in Luapula were shelved by Levy. One project that was left by Chiluba -Chembe Bridge was the only one he tackled just to seem like he was doing something for people of Luapula. Probably God punished him for his wrongs against Luapula people.

  77. #73 Manchild or may be just child, the party and its govt ended in 1991. Katele is a senior MP for the area and he spoke as such.

  78. Kalos2020.Katele is a very senior MMD party member and his party is ruling.The MMD party and the current Govt are not separate.Basically they are one. In everything the Govt does senior party and Govt officials who include Katele are consulted.This is hypocricy.He cant cheat us.I know what Im talking about.

  81. 72. Muchindu,

    ” Zedians, in the recession GRZ will do well to spend on major infrastructure projects rather than nationalising mines for the chinese and indians ”

    I see only two alternatives to nationalisation. One is that the mines are forces to reinvest all their profits in Zambia – no expatriation. However, that means they will own much of the infrastructure that is built, because it will be built with their money. The other is heavy taxation of the mines.

    The third alternative is that the government inflates the currency through borrowing or writing bonds, which means that every single Zambian citizen pays for it every time they enter a store, through higher prices of good.

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