President Michael Sata is tomorrow expected to launch the Pave Zambia 2000 in Lusaka’s Chawama township.
The Government of the Republic of Zambia, through the Road Development Agency (RDA) is embarking on the project to pave approximately 2000 kilometres of urban roads using paving blocks technology.
Government has procured road construction equipment to be utilised in paving public roads and public places across the country.
The use of pavers in road construction will create employment and skills for youths. The construction of roads using concrete paving blocks will provide benefits to the communities which extend much further than the provision of roads and creation of employment by cultivating a sense of pride and ownership amongst the communities.
The project will be undertaken in all the 10 provinces and will create more than 20,000 jobs at an estimated cost of K1.6 Billion.
Apart from rehabilitating and realising a maintainable urban road network, Government’s main objective in this project is employment creation for the youth in line with the PF Manifesto.
Viva PF! Wapya baisa sela tubombeka nomba!!
Now the King can now work since he has been endorsed enough…
That is what we stand for in PF. That is what I support about PF. Not ifya kubuta ati shani shani uko.
viva President ! long life to you and good policies to all !
These are outdated socialist policies I don’t even know if you can call them policies, this is merely work which damaging in the long-term what happens after the pavements are finished? Let the private sector create jobs and gov’t formulate policies; – “the best job-creation program in human history is the free market and the entrepreneurship it generates” – it simply means our politicians must get out of the way.
Wake up!!
Using costly labour intensive paving methods just to create employment when more innovative paving methods could be employed at a fraction of the cost.
We hope the president has been briefed on what to expect at the launch or commissioning, we don’t need another circus!!
we really need to look at the cup as half full sometimes, must we always be negative, its one thing to seat down and intellectualize, its another to do actual work, you are the same people who sit down and say Lusaka is a dirty town. well what happens after the bricks wear out, put new ones.. and no the bigger picture is not job creation, Job creation is a benefit that comes from paving the city. we have bred so much negativity in our mind set that we don’t even appreciate the little positive strides amidst the chaos.
jay jay whatever you call yourself,your thinking is very backward and i can see you are stil a minor ,you still think in a milk fashion how can you not appreciate atleast something is being done to resurface these roads and i dont think you have been to chawama please don’t just bac like a demented dog shwin iweee
This is wonderful. Lekeni Sata ateke !!!
Ewe chi @jay,jay why do u hate anything u hear about Mr Sata? Are u normal we chintu we? Yo hate for this man is an affliction and u need exocism of yo demons. We chibandawe.l am speaking 2 that fo ol sh spirit in u. Go,go,go pf.Good roads in Cha
Critics for nothing, armchair critics, always! Well-done Mr. President. Please include road side walk ways, grass and tree planting to help eliminate dust. The councils can do this and must not wait for the hard-working president to lead.
Let them run out of points to advance when they will be campaigning to dislodge you from power come 2013. Your work will be “self-explanatory.”
Osmore, don’t worry, it is not normal.
Zambians will need to WAKE UP this ain’t 1964 but 2013..we need to change our mindsets, “Gov’ts are good at creating work, but they are not good at creating value-generating jobs,” Too often the jobs that these selfsame politicians ‘create’ are simply to their own benefit. We need to transcend from agriculture to manufacturing to service to information and by all means stop our politicians attempting to prevent this transition – to stall the free market’s signals – this will halt innovation, growth, and create more poverty. Creating meaningful valuable jobs doesn’t appear too complex – “the best job-creation program in human history is the free market and the entrepreneurship it generates” – it simply means our politicians must get out of the way.
Wake up people!!
I hope he wont find the work has started already..bakazanda nakabili.
Welcome to Chawama Mr President.
We hope the Pave Zambia Campaign well. Just avoid the mockery we endured when RB came to commission Chawama Health Centre into a hospital in 2011. Even the title Hospital has never been written anywhere near this place. Chawama is one of the most congested clinics in Zambia! That is the truth. I have been to other clinics in Lusaka but I have not seen what happens at Chawama. Those health workers deserve medals from you Mr. President. You do not have to hunt antiquated “freedom” fighters to give those Grand commanders etc medals at those ostentntious ceremonies at “our” State House where only cadres and senior civil servants are invited as though they are the only citizens. Let them enjoy their parties at places of work etc.
good idea keep it up.
Ka HH bakanyanta pa mutwe.kekekekikiki…
Its amazing that a head of state goes to launch a pavement.In 2013 we are wowed with pavements? The tax payers of Chawama are entiltled to that pavement as well as other services we shouldn’t view it as a gift from Sata.
Zambia is a third world country indeed.
twasanta mwane
Keep talking while the job is being done.
kutashafye mukwai
I am reliably informed that this project was also ‘abandoned’ by HE because it took place in Kuku Compound and not Chawama, as earlier indicated. Ndelolesha fye…. Epo mpelele.
Good work Mr President.
The only problem is with local government.
They lack the senses those id**ts.
We have the existing walking ways or pavements but they are completely buried with soil especially when cleaning drainages. Let them not run this country like their bedrooms. These people who erect billboards have destroyed the walking ways with their heavy cranes and those laying ICT cables have not left our pavements undamaged and all has been left unchecked putting more pressure on a heavily taxed Zambian.
Great East Road for example has a walking way from Kabwe traffic circle to airport traffic circle with which in some portions you cannot recognize that money was spent and money will be spent putting up new ones.