President Rupiah Banda will on Saturday commission rehabilitation works on selected Lusaka Urban roads.
The event will take place in Mandevu Township.
Banda will also launch ZESCO Limited’s deferred capital contribution scheme and the free installation of solar-powered geysers.
This is according to a statement released to ZNBC News in Lusaka by Special Assistant to the President Press and public relations Dickson Jere.
The government has embarked on a programme to rehabilitate key urban roads in various parts of Zambia where roads have, for many years, been in a state of disrepair.
Under the programme, more than 500 kilometres of road will be rehabilitated in Lusaka, Kafue, Kapiri Mposhi, Kabwe and the Copperbelt province.
President Banda expects the programme to alleviate hardships faced by road users due to the poor state of roads.
The road works will complement the works outlined in the Road Development Agency -RDA-2011 annual work plan and will be coordinated by various road sector agencies under the Ministry of Works and Supply.
Nine days ago, President Banda was in Kitwe’s Kwacha East Township where he commissioned the rehabilitation of selected urban roads in Ndola, Luanshya, Kitwe, Mufulira, Chingola, Kalulushi and Chililabombwe.
ZNBC
A LITTLE TOO LATE BWANA!!!! PEOPLE ARE ALREADY DECIDED…NO AMOUNT OF PANICKING WILL CHANGE THE SITUATION………………..WHERE HAVE YU BEEN ALL THIS TIME???? PREOCCUPIED WITH FLYING AND MAKING DEALS…….SOLI MUKWAI MWALICHELWA KALE……..JUST START PACKING YOUR KATUNDU…….BYE BYE POLIO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Must all development stop in an election year because it will be seen as campaigning? Must it wait for the next government to start from zero? Can we never see any good in ourselves as Zambians except to condemn ourselves? We are not seen the things other nations have gone through in terms of disregard for humanity isn this a plus…Please we have a right to vote and for a candidate of our choise on polling day..but we need not do so at the expense of halting development
Iye uluse aba ba Mudala. Floundering like a fish out of water.. Start buying some tractors and tumbwila to start planting peanuts and Kandolo at your farm again.
Do car owners get compensation for damage already caused to their vehicles? The roads haven’t been touched in years! Â Seems elections are the answer to get things moving! To little to late.
One will go bananas this year, chilabushiku rocket launching sure!!! Where the **** are yo ministers bwana????
Go Go Go RB, its yo birthday. We gonna party. its yo’ birthday
I am still wondering why PF hate development so much that they want non of it in an election year. President Banda has been launching and completing development projects since he got into office. In fact, the levels of development Zambia has experienced have been unprecedented.
I for one do not look forward to a PF govt because they hate development so much. A PF govt sounds like hell on earth.
Youtube or MUVI TV it- “Miyanda on endorsement” Exposes desperate Mmembe and his PF demagogues.
Good though desperate efforts by RB but rather too late, just too late. I believe its the duty of ministers and permanent secretaries to launch such projects. Desperate efforts to gain the confidence of Zambian but sorry its too late.
I don’t care if this is campaigning or not, im glad we will get some roads worked on in Lusaka. Good Job RB
# 10 – I would also want some good roads in Lusaka but the truth is this is just rhetoric. In the last one week he has stated that he will rehabilitate roads in the all of copperbelt in the next three months, roads in western province too. This is impossible as this is not covered in the RDA programme. He should be talking about a 5-year programme rehabilitate all roads in Zambia and not a superman. In anyway shouldnt it be the ministers talking not him?
Asensela ilyo kawa, thats what they say in Bemba if you are running late to catch up with time. This campaign strategy will not help RB coz people know this strategy it have been used before in election time.
is it a presidential duty to flag up road rehabilitations in townships? this should be business for councils
Soon Banda will announce that Zambian government are a launching space shuttle. Next week he will tell you that Zambia is getting automatic qualification to the world cup. The following day he will announce that every Zambian will be given a laptop and all schools will have SMART boards and Promethean Boards. The day after he will promise everyone a new Toyota of their choice. His cadres on LT will tell you that because of the MMD and Banda’s hard work, IMF and World Bank owe Zambia $2.6 billion.
When does a lie from these knuckle heads sound like a lie even to themselves? When and where does it end?
#7 Capitalist for your information and correction, SATA is about development and hard work, a record too conspicuous to be ignored. So referring to PF as a party that hates development is utterly irresponsible on your part.
All of a sudden there is money for FREE geysers and electricity! ZESCO management be careful your jobs are at risk.
very soon he will be flagging off his own departure from state house – inganda ya mbula mano
If this guy (Rupiah Banda) drove around the Country sometimes, and not fly all the time, he would have noticed the state of our roads the moment he got into State House. You can not spend three quarters of your Presidency flying to foreign Countries and expect to know the state of affairs in your own backyard.
Did he think what people have been complaining about concerning the bad roads and transportation infrastructure in the country was just an imagination of his “enemies”, or a fabrication by his favorite enemy-newspaper, THE POST? Now, all of a sudden in a few months before elections, he wants to do something about this? WOW! Well, I guess MMD cadres will buy such shallow vote-buying gimmicks, but I doubt everybody else is that gullible and stu.p.id—-DESPERATION INDEED!!
#7WHAT ARE YOU? when were you back in zambia , my friend just enjoy and drink your coffee while driving on canadian roads, you and I know that, doing that would be a miracle on Zambian roads! so for RB to wake up now and start launching mending of pothoholes( taking leave from flying around, as away of campaign) is insulting the inteligence of Zambians. DIRTY CHEAP POLITIKING, WHAT IS DEVELOPMENTAL ABOUT MENDING OLD ROADS!
Good Job Mr Banda.
He is already dancing pelete. Zambians can not be fooled baba. This shows how imprudent this government is. These projects were not budgeted for. There are no drugs in hospitals and lives are being lost due such impromptu and unstrategic management of our resources. Let him build the roads, but he should go this year. Twanaka be fipuba!
Wow wish it could be true. Kafue road has been under going patching of potholes for the last two months plus. No fixed programme. Some patches were dug up 3 weeks ago to date they have not been patched. Come on Teichman or whatever kawayawaya contractor they are called. En they claim its a K7.5bn contract. Its wait and see.
Mpuno-Mwasensela elyo kawa……is Hon. Brian Chituwo still in Govt? Or he doesnt want to be “part” of this?
I love that guy.?
Donchi kubeba.
Kunchi twabeba after elections.
“OH PLIZ LETS HAVE ELECTIONS EVERY”
R.B has only been in office for two years & this third yr is up for election.Did you expect him to
habilitate these roads at once?never can that happen,even the 90days theory can’t do.look at
(P)eople’s(F)ools run councils they have all failed to deliver.Right thinks Zambians will never buy
lies perpetuated by donkey kubeba kaponyas. Â
good,hw i which sambina to mufulira and mufulira to ndola was also considered
Those who say RB is desperate are correct.There is NO responsible President who cannot be desperate to ensure that he provides for his people.Surely TWO AND HALF YEARS you are saying he should have done this earlier.Remember a Presidential Term is Five years.So when RB SAYS HE WANTS A COMPLETE FIVE YEAR TERM,HE ALREADY HAS MY VOTE NAFUTI NAFUTI.SO those who are PA FWAKA ( PF ) NI Ziii.
People should stop talking about how rupiah has only been in office for 3 years so he needs chance to bring development. mmd has been in power for almost 20 years, can you MMD supporters tell my fellow bloggers what you didnt accomplish in 20 years that can only be accomplished in 25 years.I care whom you field as a presidential candidate, all I care about is seeing a different party running Zambia, different ideas than what we’ve hd for 20 yrs, get my drift?