Hundreds of job seekers this morning stormed the office of the District Commissioner (DC) in Chinsali district in Muchinga Province demanding to know when they will be engaged in the construction works earmarked to commence in the district soon.
The job seekers who included men, women and youths started trooping to the DC’s office as early as 07:00 hours from various surrounding villages and only left after being addressed by the Deputy Provincial Permanent Secretary (DPS) Jewis Chabi.
The group told the DPS and the District Commissioner, Evelyn Kangwa, that it had waited for some time following the presidential decree that saw the creation of Muchinga Province and now wants to know when the works would commence for people to have temporal employment.
ZANIS reports that the group claimed to have heard through the media that monies for commencement of construction works at the new provincial headquarters in Chinsali have been released but cannot understand why it is taking long to implement the projects.
Speaking when addressing the group, the DPS disclosed that a named Chinese contractor engaged to construct a six- storey building for the provincial administration is already in the district.
Mr Chabi told the job seekers that the contractor is currently doing ground work and would soon be constructing temporal structures for use during the period in which he will be constructing the government building.
He assured them that once the contractor has settled in the next few weeks, the said contractor will start employing local people to start the construction of the provincial administration.
Mr Chabi added that the same contractor constructing the provincial administration offices, will also construct 40 houses for the civil servants in the area.
He said they were a lot of jobs in the District that will absorb a good number of local people.
The DPS further revealed that about K130 billion has been released under phase one of the constructions of Paul Mushindo University at Lubwa mission which he said will also commence soon.
Mr Chabi also noted that plans to construct a 4 -storey police divisional headquarters near Nambuluma police station have advanced.
He appealed to the job seekers to remain calm as the district will soon be filled with a lot of employment opportunities for the local people.
President Michael Sata late last year announced the creation of Muchinga province which saw Chinsali district becoming the provincial headquarters.
The district is now taking shape following the rehabilitation works that have since been completed with almost all government departments now having their presence at the provincial administration.
ZANIS
HH is the only solution for the Zambian leadership crisis not these CNPs with no agenda for Zambia. HH we love you & continue being the voice for the voiceless & the poor. Dont kubeba has failled. The pf boat is sinking.
Bashimine mwana
too much despair with our people. All this young men with nothing to do sure!
Don’t worry your Bemba govt will create positions for you. Your President has ordered Peter Kasanda to carryout a civil service audit. Those who didnt vote for didn’t i.e. non Bembas will be shown the door out. Just be patient!
This is replicated across the country. What hope do these poor fellows have?
Sad faces all over, except those of the DC and DPS! E balelila; the rest are hungry to the core.
It is pathetic that the lady DC finds it amusing and even smiles instead of empathizing with those desperate citizens.
90 days slogan is a time bomb. it will bring this regime down. ceasing power through lies. lets wait and see. people want jobs. they thought chimbwi has plans to create employment. now they have realized that they were duped by chimbwi because he has no plan at all.
It is now Paulo Mizindo University, but i heard with my 2 ears that it would be Kenneth Kaunda University?
Unfortunately your mother is too illitrate to see your disgusting blog name.
what is the unemployment rate in Zambia? i Feel sad to see brothers and sisters in poverty with no hope of job.
You people that are continuing to coat your comments in tribalism, can you please stop!! most of you are outside the country, when these your comments ignite real bloody flames on the ground, you will still be commenting, just commenting- in the comfort of your dwellings. This trend is bad, it needs reversal, the sooner the better.
@9 umuntunse, …. do not argue with a fool……. so the saying goes. these useless bloggers are suffering from the incurable ‘inferiority complex’ disease. just ignore their outbursts the way some of us have done.
they were duped..but one thing all those are lazy bones and too many thieves once employed..from that part of Zambia..?
LET THE BEBAS HAVE THEIR JOBS IN ALL PROVINCES THEY ARE THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO MATTER IN ZAMBIA NOW ACCORDING TO UKWA
“He said they were a lot of jobs in the District that will absorb a good number of local people”…I thought you’ve been warned not to make anymore promises? this is a time-bomb waiting to explode.
let them be employed as grave diggers they are lazy they cant do farming or the name of the party they voted has manifested paya fama
the world is like that..some are poor and soome are rich.
This is the real VOLCANO not the civil service as aluded to by the only UKWA in Zambia. Wait soon..and very ..soon. I will erupt and send Zambia off balance, then Capt. So….will act again to save the country from TOTAL collapse.
Help me, who is the Army Commander currently? What about ZAF? ZNS? ZP? Zambians are tired……………
YES, YOU I.DIOTS VOTED FOR FOOOLISHNESS
It hurts to see so many sad faces. These are our brothers and sisters, sons and daughters. These are the people who are supposed to take top priority on Govt’s Agenda, NOT the President to increase his own salary by 100% barely six months into Office, and certainly NOT the exact same overpaid President to now start building himself a retirement House barely one year in office. This is wrong, very wrong.
You’re responsible for your own poverty & unemployment.You have always voted based on tribe rather than objective criteria which wud lead to growth and employment.You have always been more excited about trivial matters like “under 5” labels than his policies and you even sit idly around instead of keeping your homesteads spotless and well maintained.Show me one Indian-zambian in poverty or unemployed and i’ll show you a big difference in your thought processes despite being born & bred in the same country.Zambians are architects of their own poverty and unemployment.
Zambians have been DUPED by Mr Sata with his PF.
I am justified to call many of you bloggers as fools who delight in maximising the minimum of an even while losing the over all picture of the whole situation. This unemployment was set up under MMD. Just like Obama would explain that much of the unemployment situation was due to the Bush policies. What Mr. SATA’s administration has done is bring hope and expectation in Chinsali. For sure the constructions will commence! These only have novel ideas of job…
…types. It is not really like they can’t live without those construction jobs. They are villagers who have always survived on scratching the soil and exploiting forests. To insinuate that this is Sata’s problem is simply being myopic and a display of simpletonic reasoning and understanding if not plain jealousness! The thing is, those people now envisage that they will be guaranteed a regular, monthly wage unlike an uncertain income, selling malasha and local brew…
…otherwise the DC understands and she can afford to smile. I bet all those people will massively vote for MCS rather than HH again if they will still be contenders, not because of tribal feeling but purely on the basis that the PF will deliver CHANGE to Chinsali, which will speak for itself, while HH will be telling trivial stories about a house for a former President in state lodge! With this and the roads coming, who are you MMD guns and UPND puppies to speak doom?
aaaa I thought my tribes men were the most better off than the rest of the country. what is this I see in the pictures? real impoverishment. Where is the bemba superiority in these pictures? Lets not laugh at other tribes when we had nothing to showoff for apart from our language and our numbers when it comes to vote.
Try Betty Kaunda Institute of something not Mushindo Universirty…Lenje speakers will not want to learn from Mushindo. Mushindo is an a-s-s hole in Lenje.
And please lets resist from tribal comments.
SWINE CHABI CAN YOU EMPLOY ALL THAT MOB YOU CHAP?HE IS JUST A MAN CHAP IN THE SWIMMING POOR
Government(GRZ) MUST seriously urgently consider the sufferings of its peoples country-wide.Open-up large labour intensive industries in ALL provinces etc.For once stop yaping yaping yaping yaping yaping irrelevants.
The DPS further revealed that about K130 billion has been released under phase one of the constructions of Paul Mushindo University at Lubwa mission which he said will also commence soon.
Questions I would like to ask the Problems forever or Promises Forever (PF) is:
1) What’s the population of Muchinga Province to warrant it the build of two new universities at the expense of other provinces
2) Does Muchinga Province has high number of Grade 12 graduates with high and good points than other provinces in Zambia who cannot find varsity places.What is so significant about Chinsali in particular and Muchinga in general that it have two new universities at a go.
3) Why can’t PF listen to the voices of the majority once and for all.
WE NEED THE GENERALS TO WAKE UP AND ACT NOW……………….:)>-
CHEWE AT 29, YOU AREA REAL SON OF A B****. HOW DARE YOU INSINUATE A MILITARY TAKE OVER, IF YOU THINK YOU ARE SAFE WHERE EVER YOU ARE AND WILL NEVER GO BACK TO ZAMBIA LET IT IT BE. FOR SOME OF US ZAMBIA IS THE ONLY HOME AND OUR FAMILIES THAT WE LOVE A LOT STILL LIVE THERE. STOP MAKE IRRESPONSIBLE COMMENTS.