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President Michael Sata to launch Kitwe-Chingola dual carriage way

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President Michael Sata
President Michael Sata

President Michael Sata will tomorrow launch the construction of the Kitwe – Chingola Dual Carriageway in Kitwe.

According to State House stament, the K561 million road project, comprises of the upgrade of the existing 45.5km to the North bound carriageway from its junction with the Kazembe junction in Kitwe to Kasumpe junction in Chingola. And the South bound carriageway works consist of the construction of the new carriageway.

The scope of work will also include the construction of a new bridge at Mwambashi River and reinforcement of the existing bridge at the same location. The project will be implemented over a period of 2 years and is expected to generate over 500 jobs during the construction period.

And President Sata has emphasized the Government’s desire and resolve to improve the road infrastructure through the implementation of the on-going Link Zambia 8000 road project in the country as enshrined in the PF manifesto.

The Head of State expressed confidence that his administration is on course in implementing campaign promises.

84 COMMENTS

  1. This guy is a fool! There is violence in the country and he is not commenting about it and now he is talking about roads!

    • Please HH say something to criticise Sata’s silence on the violence that has erupted in Lusaka. It seems its only you who can make the president realise his incompetence and address the issue. Sata is quiet because HH has not issued statement to criticise him directly.

    • While violence and mayhem is anathema to all peace loving people, what is going on within PF is not a big deal to the president. To him is business as usual and isn’t moved to warrant any comments from him. To him, time will heal the rift and people will forget about all the inconvinience and everyone will move on like nothing happened nor that anyone lost their lives. Vyakulolavye!

    • this is the time to focus on what the future will be like with increased traffic on the copperbelt, it high time the govt looked making all inter-town roads on the cpooerbelt dual carriage.

      its also in the best interest of our nation to consider making all roads linking provinces dual carriage.

      the single lane type should be left to township roads only

      after all its our country why don’t we do projects that will wow us, make us proud? why do we do projects like we are doing someone else a favor? This is our country men!!

    • hahahahahaha… it looks like Sata is not the president of zambia,, the man seems to be blind and remote controlled from somewhere,, he cant stop his `children` fighting?..wierdily strange!!!

    • @Tomelani,
      Lusaka is not Zambia,why waste time on those illiterates at bus stations killing each other.they thrive when there is violence,thats how they feed their families through looting etc.Let the president attend to the whole nation, there is development to be delivered to the whole nation.PF is all over ZED, why the Lusaka riff ruffs with their pay master GBM are the ones making noise?

    • Roads are very important, particularly in the rainy season. It is very good that
      the government is improving roads and bridges.

    • A responsible president would have called a Press conference to denounce these barbaric acts! Silence means he approves of these acts. It means he has lost his mandate to govern seeing he cannot uphold the constitution and Biblical principles by which he swore to govern!

      We are in serious auto pilot!

      Infrastructure development does not mean anything if you cannot maintain peace and order!

      If you cannot discipline Wynter then we would be justified to believe there is something the two of you are hiding with your self-styled disciple of 30 years! But understand this that Zambia is greater than your PF!

  2. Poor Zambians; smiling at a President who never smiles back! Hope you wont go with your violent Sudan trained Lusaka Janjaweed to the Copperbelt!

  3. Politics ya…………we are tied ….please do something to uphold the peace of our country mother Zambia (yes we need development bt it will not come thro killing and fighting one another).

    • True,without peace even that road will be of no benefit.These are the times when one must prioritize peace over develoment….a stitch in time saves nine.

  4. This president is really irritating mwe even just seeing his picture makes some of us vomit! you will the rubbish that will come out of his mouth tomorrow!

  5. Pray the panga wielding culture will not be exported/ imported to the Copperbelt – the most volatile of Zmabia’s provinces (of course being overtaken by Lusaka now).

  6. Mr President, not again, just a couple of days ago you were ‘ground breaking’ at the airport while your cadres were slaughtering each other, now it looks like you want a repeat. Can’t you delegate someone from your multitude cabinet to do the launching? Mr President have you heard of the word priorities? Are you ok?

    • @ Mfumu,
      Am laughing out loud because i’ve read your comment alot of times i actually didnt realise it’s in Nyanja, i have been asking myself what language that is.

    • Hi @Cindy, my apologies, I guess having not completed the saying, even a seasoned easterner would instantaneously attempt to read something in English unless one knows its in a local language. Just like “Make (in English = create while in nyanja = mother of). It can be confusing and only after realising its not making sense does one realise that after all it may not be English). Great you caught it, good day Cindy.

  7. Sata, MAN UP, we don’t want you on the Copperbelt unless you deal with the violence prevailing in the nation.
    We know you are enjoying it but stay in Lusaka until you man up.

  8. Panga Fighters political party! In such a situation of violence roads don’t mean nothing. Its over with PF ( Panga Fighters) time to look for new leadership period!

    • @Musonda

      You have made my day with your new name for PF. Ati Panga Fighters ,kikikikikikikikik…….

      From today I will call PF Panga Fighters. The have rightly earned it and they deserve it.

  9. Good news. Useful for those who use this route.

    Bus terminals always appear one step away from a crime. Maybe building and using terminals correctly will help. Too many non essential activities going on and limiting the setting to ticket offices, traveller waiting space and perhaps snacks will reduce the cadre operational zones and improve things. Also met too many drivers boasting of either not having a license or merely buying one without test. We can build roads but we need to monitor who is on them too.

  10. Lets hope once completed the death rate will drastically reduce. This should have been done years ago by Kaunda or MMD. Let Sata finish off what mwanawansa would have done, then donchi kubeba and vote in UPND. Dandy krazy should do a song for UPND for the next election campaign. Im sure HH wouldn’t have cut off dandys’ locks for possessing a little canabis for personal use. Sata should have given him a presidential pardon but chose to shoot himself in the foot!

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  11. massive accidents which some media were saying were rituals. It was alleged that every time massive blood was shed through accidents, some people would recover and become better from what ever disease only known to themselves. Today accidents have gone but blood through political violence has replaced the accidents.

  12. Go SATA Go!!!!…We are behind you while they talk and fight…You re indeed a man of Action.Next we will polish up the economy…

    • you must be an idddiot,you think previous presidents were ignorant not to embark on a careless borrowing spree.before this man realises the type of debt hole he is sinking us in there will be no survival plan on the table to rescue us,the owners of the money will just come and grab this poor nation and enslave us all

  13. Reading some of the comments above you would think that the whole country is on fire! But, the reality is that it is just a handful of individuals who can’t think for themselves who are butchering each other. The country does not have to come to a standstill because of that. Be objective with your comments

  14. Zambians can really be funny you called this president of a dictator, now you want him to be dictating , let him allow others also to reason , how ever what is more important is now to focus on development than party politicks party politicks can derail development

    • @Cindy

      PF have their priorities misplaced. PF should have concentrated on delivering on the Standard of living, cost of living and rule of law. These are things that resonate well with the voters. Voters , come 2016 will remember the price of ubunga , housing and bus fares thats all. They wont care about the stadiums , dual carriage ways, and airports because the majority of them will never get use them any way. However that is not to say we don’t need them. We need a holistic approach to development. It should be 50% infrastructure and 50% cost of living and standard of living.

      Remember Mobutu of Zaire built the only airport able land a concord in Africa. Was that necessary when the majority of the people had substandard housing and facing a very high cost of living?…

    • @ Wanzelu,
      Very true, you know my first thoughts after reading the title were “and yet people are living in abject poverty, infant mortality rate is high, no proper equipment or medicines in the Hospitals, crime is high due to unemployment just to mention a few”. I wonder why we opt to start backwards and then try to get forward when we have fallen so deep in to the poort!

    • @Cindy

      The only explanation plausible for prioritising road constructions is because Sata moved RDA to state house for him and his cohort can maximise on road contract bribes. They don’t give these contracts to Zambians any more because they bosha apanono. All the road contracts are not for open tender any more. Only the president and his inner circle decide which china man to execute the contract after ukubosha ba Sata and depositing a substantial sum in Sata ‘s account abroad.

      This very sad indeed. Sata is stealing right under our noses thats why he lost control of Kabimba and GBM. He can’t discipline them because they might expose the clandestine activities taking place at state house.

      Now you understand why construction is Sata’s priority.

      Just my observation!

  15. some of you the way you reason makes me worried,how can the president for all zambians suspend the launch of the national development project because of a single town and political party inside fight?
    you think by fueling those confusions will stop sata from developing zambia?you are wasting time just stop fighting and join him in developing our peaceful zambia

    • Development is not only about roads iwe chikallla
      let the man spend time on stabilising the economy
      address the serious matters relating to the new constitution
      let him counter the violence being perpetrated by
      by his cadres above everything recover the 14bn owe
      to us by his masters.we can not live on roads alone

  16. looks like he has become president for roads only. we will remember him as the president who commissioned roads, built more roads and roads and roads. He must be reminded that roads do not exist in a vacuum. other fundamentals like the economy, agriculture, budget deficits require his undivided attention.

  17. Countryment and women, it is time we stopped blogging for the hell of it. Better to be quiet when you have nothing to contribute on the topic.
    May our republican president notice and take to task whoever is responsible for the works on both Ndola/Kitwe and Kitwe/Chingola carriage way works currently being done. How can we pay whatever amounts of money a company to remove just the grass and a few roots on the surface and we start graveling and stabilizing the surface ready for laying bitumen? Kitwe/Chingola road will last for just a few months and we shall be to potholes! How can you remove just the aged bituminous surface and without working deep on he sub-base you start laying new bitumen on Ndola/Kitwe road? Do we have engineers in this country if we have corrupted oversight…

    • …..continued
      ? May the president notice this and make sure we make corrections. The works are so wrong fellow Zambians, and we should not cheated by by the thickness of the bituminous layer. The strength of the road is determined by the thickness of the bituminous layer but by the stability of the base on which that asphalt is laid. We are being screwed on broad day light. We should be building new roads every year not working on the same old roads. When are we going to develop by having many good roads in the country by going back on same old roads, is anyone planing for this country? A good road properly made should about 20 years life span and in this period we can build many other roads be4 going on the road! God bless Zambia.

  18. Please forgive my English on the top posts. It was all because I am a little emotional on the subject but am hoping I have delivered the point!

    • You have a very good and important valid point
      our president can not see that,he is too myopic he
      is preoccupied with launching eveb garbage as long
      as he makes a name for himself.

  19. Ma demons aya chabababa because the President does not focus on useless things like yo cadres who want that. Police,break their legs so that they go back to both mmd and upnd lame.Go ,go President while they hullucinate.

  20. Wanzelu, it’s Shows how your thinking is so narrow. Have good road networks in rural areas means opening up developments / opportunities to fox in rural areas possibly reducing massive urbanisation. Any investor will like to invest in an area with good road network. Some criticisms are baseless lacking critical analysis of what underpin developments / investor confidence . If Wanzelu as your flag shows live in UK.
    , I bet you would not have made such a comment knowing road infrastructure is massive business in UK. Any if you live in deprive areas of UK you don’t see these road infrastructure on massive scale. I rest my case

    • @Pafwenamwine

      I take your point, but if you look at the development history of the UK carefully, you discover that they developed their country concurrently . They built decent houses and factory shells for their people along side improving the infrastructure. Their development strategy is a holistic approach. They do not forget the standard of living at the expense of infrastructure. I have done a lot of work in construction I know their approach very well. They always assess to find value for money before executing a project. Thats why UK has the best planing laws in the world. Before they do anything people have to be involved. So people decide whether a road comes first before decent housing or not.

      Point of correction, I don’t live in high density areas okay.

    • iwe chikkalah,what development are you seeing in this commedy? this is knee jerk development.just going on a loose borrowing spree to hoodwink the gullible meanwhile the country is rotting with lawlessness and a crumbling economy

  21. You armchair critics. Good road network is the bedrock of development. I don’t care if he spends his two terms building roads and nothing else. Someone will appreciate later. When FTJ started the market economy it was after 15 to 20 years that you began to see the fruit. Shut up please and let him work.

    • @Kabika

      Its a pity you think ruling the country is all about road construction. You seem to have myopic view about how to run a country. I urge you to look at the Spanish story leading upto the the boom and bust. They constructed massive infrastructure and even built entirely new towns equipped with airports , dual carriage ways and railway systems. They borrowed massively to execute these projects. In the end the country’s economy collapsed with mounting debt. Now all that expensive infrastructure is a white elephant as I speak. No one lives there. The whole area has been abandoned. What a loss!

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0rjAfzoHeI

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc2ZPUt_bMs

      All this happened because they did not take the holistic approach to developing the country.

    • @Kabika,

      People voted for Sata not because he told them he will built many roads and stadiums, no. Sata promised the people low cost of living, and good standard of living. Infrastructure is needed , but all I am saying is it should not be done at the expense of other pressing issues like cost of living and standard of living. These are issues which really count when people go to cast their votes.
      Imagine Sata telling people Vote for me because I have built a stadium and road. Do you think the majority poor will buy that, no. What the poor want to hear is price of ubunga will be reduced, good housing, good health and educational facilities.

      The world over cost of living, standard of living and rule of law determine the survival of regimes, not roads alone.

  22. When an accident claims lives you people take to the site complaining how the government isn’t constructing dual carriageway and now it is a reality you jump ship and whine more,one problem at a time people

  23. As much as condemn violence of all forms and as much as I support freedom of speech the issue here is development but most of my friends are just making wild allegations against the head of state. We are a nation in my opinion full of people who talk too much and do very little to improve the welfare of our people. When someone is doing something positive for a change we undress such an individual. Shame indeed. As Zambians we must learn to give credit where it is due and not just condemn. The dual carriageway is a positive development as some of us have lost close friends and relatives on that road.

  24. You fools why are you so bitter about Sata in everything he do.HH will never be the presindet for Zambia make my words ba nkusa imwe

  25. EIZ, please help and advise the powers that be, that the solution is not to do a piece meal job of upgrading the northbound and a new southbound road. I hope by upgrading they do not mean re-surfacing and patchwork as has been done in the past. The end product should be a complete new dual carriageway complete with a new bridge at Mwambashi. This is a very staright forward project, and should not be compromised by trying to save pennies when we all know that a lot of lives depend on the safe construction of this road. Please Zambian Government, ensure that a proper job is done. If you need any free consultation, I can spare some time over the two years making sure no shoddy jobs are done by the contractors. I am sure there are a lot Zambians that are willing and capable of assisting.

  26. @Wanzelu and Cindy, I know that if you have a preferred candidate (HH), it is difficult to support another candidate (SATA). Appreciate where it is due. What Sata is doing is for long term. UK good standard of living did not come overnight. They had to go through thick and thin, colonise us, take all the wealth and build UK. While you are complaining about road construction as not being first priority, countries like Nigeria are determined to build a new modern town by the coast. Poverty will always be there. I work for an investor and they complain about poor road network in Zambia. Road commisioning seems to higly publicized because they are massive projects. Sata is not so dull that he would concentrate on roads only. Highly developed countries began first by developing roads.

  27. It is the international community encouraging African countries to invest in road infrastructure, and funds are flooding into Zambia from donors for these projects. But there is no road construction project going on in Southern province of Zambia. The Monze-Niko road is pathetic, and yet of paramount economic importance.

  28. Why is it that Zambians abroad behave like a coward dog that would run upon seeing a thief and buck when it is in its hiding place? Looking at the many comments made on this site, they are for Zambians not living in their on country but foreign. If we were to assess their debates posted and compare with poverty their families left behind, one would wonder if they are writing from their right senses. I expect those people calling themselves good engineers, philosophers, economics and advisers to first give an example by sorting out the poverty issues surrounding their small families which are in a mess before start to advise on the national issues. If at all this is what they were doing Zambia would not be the same and government leaders would have few issues to sort out. Debate wisely.

    • Can we take it that your domicile is South Africa, and that you have left your family in the cold?

      Your contribution is too simplistic. You have not surveyed the people you conclude live abroad to be sure they don’t live in Zambia, and that their families are living in poverty.

      This is the same problem our politicians have. They assume too much, and actually know very little, and some cases know nothing.

    • My friend, if you have issues about others being educated while you are not, please spare your little time and go find food for your sick family. We all know that there is poverty in Zambia, it does not stop you or anyone else to pursue further studies and also seek greener pastures. I can contribute just as much from anywhere in the world as you lazy pants sitting back at home doing nothing. Direct your contributions to finding solutions to the problem at hand, not by attacking the few sane people that are trying to debate with sense. Problem is, you always want to read insulting language, anything sensible is not good for you. Yaba!!!

  29. I 1st want to thank president Sata for not stopping road projects tht were started by the mmd,however he has not been bold enough to tell the zambian people tht these are not pf initiated projects,he and the pf are getting credit for projects they have no idea about I challenge mr sata to tell the zambian people the truth,this kitwe chingola dual carriage way was imitated by the mmd ,it smacks me that president sata can even have his picture on a billbord for levy mwanawasa stadium as if he was not the one who said it was a waste of money,the only thing good bout pf is voilence and no direction.the prices of all things has short up.unemployment is on the rise,fuel is expensive,our currency is nearly 6000 to a dollar,agriculture is dead,freedom of expression is limited,and simple minded…

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