Government says it is hopeful that cooperating partners will soon start releasing money to the road sector following the suspended of the funds.
Finance and National Planning Minister Situmbeko Musokotwane said government has been negotiating with cooperating partners on the funding to the road sector after they had withhold the funds earlier this year.
Dr. Musokotwane said government has agreed on a road map with cooperating partners who he said have responded positively.
He said no money has however been released by cooperating partners to the sector this year.
He has however clarified that that cooperating partners only suspended the fund to the sector and not cancelled due to the mismanagement in the auditor general’s report.
Recently, the country’s Road Sector Cooperating Partners hailed government’s decision to dissolve the Boards of the Road Development Agency and the National Road Fund Agency.
The Cooperating Partners namely the World Bank, the European Union, Denmark, Germany, Japan and the African Development Bank said they stand ready to support the government in its endeavour to strengthen the institutions responsible for managing and providing oversight in the roads sector.
They stated that remedial measures arising from the recent Audit findings, together with a realistic, affordable and sustainable road sector investment programme (ROADSIP II), would pave the way for the resumption of new road works which are still withheld.
Meanwhile, Finance and National Planning Deputy Minister, David Phiri said cooperating partners have pledged over K400 billion to the road sector this year.
He also said out of the K620 billion cooperating partners pledged last year only K105 billion was released top the National Road Funds Agency (NRFA)
He added that government however released 99 percent of the budgetary allocation to the sector last year.
“He was answering a question from Kanchibiya MP Davies Mwango during the question for oral answer session in parliament today.
Mr. Mwango wanted to know much money was released to NRFA last year and how much was released by cooperating partners.
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And you surely mismanaged that k 105 billion as usual.
Give us our baggage allowances.
We don’t even have any shame.
Our leaders take beg as if its normal with no plans to extricate Zambians from this self-imposed slavery. Zambia is rich and yet we beg for money for roads and medicine while we let the mines get away with billions of dollars.
Not one cent of donor aid, until the mines are taxed $1.2 billion a year – or more.
What donor money? We don’t need any! lol
4 Chitapankwa, ” What donor money? We don’t need any! lol ”
You’re right, I didn’t know how else to phrase it. We need a government that isn’t too shy (corrupt) to extract everything they can from the mining sector, and invest it in other economic sectors. And who doesn’t believe that ‘the market knows best’, which is an abdication of the present government’s responsibility to govern.
What is the point in them releasing funds for the road sector when it is not spent on roads?
These vices were introduced by cobra and we are all paying the price now, many years after.
But i thot the govt made it clear that thy dont need donor money according 2 Rb.with this corrupt govt,i dnt c them realising funds.
But i thot the govt made it clear that thy dont need donor money according 2 Rb.the solution is simply 2 b corrupt free bt we n know that aint gonna happened wit this current govt.
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Is the Finance Minister saying that our country cannot run without donor funds? With all the huge mineral deposits in the mines, millions of acres of arable land and all the manpower plus brainpower?This is indeed a shameful state of affairs.
I wonder if we shall ever wake up to read a headline like: “Zambia rejects donor funds”.
U want money again from the same donors yo acting mmd president R.B has been insulting? Shame on u crooks.
We africans,i have come to conclude, actually really want to be poor and beg. It is a choice to be poor.
#12. It is hard to do but I agree with your sentiment.
Call a spade a spade, a beggar a beggar and a DONOR a DONOR, not a partner. I think as a nation we can only be as wealthy as our “educatedness” is and as successful as our levels of awareness are. To assume Copper and arable land amount to wealth and development would be like denying reality, which is that neither have saved us as a nation from our misery. An investment in health and education is what Zambia needs, and now before poverty yields more disease and less peace. Remember people, time waits for no one. Strive for education and health, demand accountability and desist from segregation be it tribal, sexist, racial etc.
An investment in health and education is what Zambia needs, and now before poverty yields more disease and less peace. Remember people, time waits for no one. Strive for education and health, demand accountability and desist from segregation be it tribal, sexist, racial etc. The system rewards corruption and views education as a threat. The system outs the fate of millions in one mans hand. The system is backward, almost to the level of being barbaric. Fix the system, reward and support education and take away some power from politicians. Let’s get with the 21st century Zambians.
An investment in health and education is what Zambia needs, and now before poverty yields more disease and less peace. Remember people, time waits for no one. Strive for education and health, demand accountability and desist from segregation be it tribal, sexist, racial etc. The system rewards corruption and views education as a threat. The system outs the fate of millions in one mans hand. The system is backward, almost to the level of being barbaric. Fix the system, reward and support education and take away some power from politicians. Let’s get with the 21st century.
Ndiye kupusa uku
Just like in a home,a parent gets drunk stands by the roadside and shouts unprintables at the neighbours from whom he borrows money (kaloba) from time to time, foolishly enough he sends his children to go beg from the same people he insulted, while he hides in shame.That is lack of wisdom and class,but again,this is RB we are talking about here,i wouldnt expect anything less than midiocrity,ineptness,visionless,objectivity,leadership,imbecility,bafoonry,arrogance and above S.tupidity
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery.non but ourselves can free our minds.We are physically free but mentally and financially enslaved.Know that who ever stands to fight and runs away,lives to fight another day.And as long as we entirely rely in donor aid.We will always be monitored.A begger is not a chooser.Its the same people whom you are busy knocking at their doors for aid who will one day come to ripe those resource we boast of as a country.They will come as investors with their own conditions while abusing workers and giving them peanuts as salaries.watch our mother zambia otherswise we will end up developing from one level of poverty to another.INVESTORS+DONORS is the political song now.Jah help us
Are you sure your government need Donors money???????? according to RB I don’t think so [-([-([-( stop crying you are finance minister cut down RBs trips and channel the money to the road sector.:d:d
RB’s Govt contradicts itself i dont know why we have such a government i think we need a man of integrity like Miyanda..where is my president i want him to stand next year coz naipwalala this time there is no one capable apart from the general himself.
thanks donors for seeing sense lets have the money so that we do up the roads aand make zambia a good place to stay in. we all cant run away and seek refuge in your countries. as the brave have remained behind to see to it that zed flourishes. RB has set the trend so far so much has been done. the thieves didnt start stealing now bcos some leaders even put govt money meant for merzaf in personal accounts hence the collapse of that housing project
A begger is not suppose to bost because you die of hunger, remember it’s you who need the money and not the donors. You have two choices, work for yours or beg all the time and become a slave to the giver. Whatever these donors can say we just have shallow because we are beggers and we have to pay for having wrong people in leadership, maybe thats when we can learn a lesson for electing people without a vision for the nation. I know we can come out of this mess once we put the right people in leadeship, who will not through us into begging all the time.
ba # 22 as if you vote while in self imposed exile. come home and be part of governace not talking from the fence. hope you went to sch or working proper job not buka boyi. hope you are free to come back home without fearing ukuchula
Musokotwane should stop crying for donor money like a kid chasing for sweets.The K400 billion for Roads the donors have withheld can easily be raised from the mines.Zambia can do away with this shameful begging if we utilize our resources properly.Look at a well designed CEEC empowerment programme.The whole thing has just become an empty dream.They have not funded a single project this year nor are they approving any new projects.Put it simply,the whole thing is a big joke only understood by RB as he cares little about it.Very soon,it will not surprise us to hear that this CEEC has been discontinued.Poverty alleviation will continue to elude this country.
This is the time our President should kneel down and opologise to donors about his insults. We all confirm that Zambia cannot stand without donor support becuase we dont have a vision, no knowledge on utilisation of natural resources. Auditor Generals office also should be more careful with their reports. this donors you see also have same problems in their own countries its only that they donts wash ALL their dirty linen in public, nomba imwe ati bamitashe.