Sports Youths and Child Development Minister Kenneth Chipungu told Parliament today that the estimated cost of the completion of the rehabilitation works at Lusaka’s Independence Stadium is K 240 billion Kwacha.
Chipungu explained that the rehabilitation works at the said stadium would be completed by the year 2010.
The Sports Minister was responding to Patriotic Front (PF) Kankoyo Member of Parliament (MP) Percy Chanda who wanted to know when rehabilitation works at Independence Stadium would be completed and the estimated cost.
Chipungu said the rehabilitation works at the the country’s biggest stadium were slow due to tender procedures.
He dispelled assertions that the slow process at which rehabilitation works were going at the stadia was due to poor planning.
He was quick to mention that an artificial turf has been laid also adding that work on the grand stand would soon commence once a constructor is identified.
The Sports Minister said details would soon be made known to the nation on the progress of the grand stand .
Chipungu who is also Rufunsa Member of Parliament has since called upon the corporating partners to come fourth and work closer in order to assist the government in completing rehabilitation works at the Independence Stadium.
He also mentioned that rehabilitation works at the Maramba Stadium in Livingstone would soon commence.
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We will Wait and See, Last time i Checked it was supposed to be ready by December Last Year
Hope its not just word of mouth,coz such u govt are good at…
There is more talking in Government than action. So many empty promises.
Dag was the same story. Rehab work to gobble K240 Billion!!! My foot. Ba ka bwalala, people when you take a walk at the Independence Stadium, the work being carried out and to be carried out can’t chew that collosal amount of money. They are out to short change us. Aaaah, I’m fed up with the same old story of We shall rebuild, we shall rebuild. Empty rhetorics.
I know, they are waiting for the POST to expose their corruption and plunder of the reconstruction funds before they can speed up.
MR MPUTYU, IF YOU HAVE STRONG FEELINGS AND GOOD REASONS THAT MONEY IS BEING STOLLEN PLEASE GO TO THE AUDITOR-GENERAL AND SUBMIT A SPECIAL REQUEST FOR THE AUDIT OF THE PROJECT OR YOU CAN REPORT YOUR SUSCIPITIONS TO THE ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION. BUT IF YOU ARE ONE OF THOSE COWARDS MAKING WILD EYED, FROTHING ON THE MOUTH ALLEGATIONS , I WOULD PERSONALLY IGNORE YOU AND ADVISE SENSIBLE PEOPLE TO DO THE SAME.
Wait and see
Ala!!!, what’s all this? First it was a new sports complex at Villa grounds. So that those teams which will be coming to ZA can also sample Zambian tourism and train in Livingstone. Now it is rehabilitating Maramba Stadium, near Maramba market in Maramba. Can Morientes, Beckham, and Ronadinho come and warm up there??? I wonder. Or is it our very own Chipolopolo, which will be sharpening from there before going to ZA. Anyway it is better than nothing.
Pure incompetence.
ba mambala imwe,dnt start telling the nation abt the progress of the grandstand,wat nonsence is that?jst work on the stadia and once the dead line is due,we want to see a fully refurbrished stadia,because k240 billion is alot of money.the job shld be done nt jst stories mu parliament there,kwati ni filya ba shikulu na beshikulu nabakala kumulilo,elyo baleshimika notu shimi,iyo..twanaka nomba,wat we need as a nation is to see the government deliver,less talking and more of action.chaba shani kanshi nobuteko mwebantu.
Artificial turf?? With the High temperatures in Zambia? It will ware out with in 3 yrs..
Ha!!!!!!!! this is proper day light robbary, K240b, please mwe bantu lekani ukawalala. ndalama kupaka.
i don’t think it will ready by 2010,, but it wil be ready when its ready..lol
Gorvernment tender are contributing to late commencement of most projects in Zambia why dont we come up with an alternative route becoz they just too many procedures.
Ya ya ya ya ay yaba Bane……. Indalama shafula. Guy lets get real!!!!!! We are all Zambians nomatter where we are today or anytime,hence our need to develop our soccre.
Mputu and my other collegues, if we are not cowards, lets advise the organisors aboput the best bid in terms of the contractors and the cheapest bidder or else i will consider you lazy terrace spectators
Let us wait and see