Friday, March 29, 2024

Progress on Mansa-Luwingu Road cheers Kambwili

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Government has expressed happiness at the progress of works on the 175 Kilometer stretch of the Mansa-Luwingu road.

Information and Broadcasting Services Minister Chishimba Kambwili expressed happiness after driving on the 90 Kilometer completed stretch from Mansa and praised the contractor China Henan Chicco for the quality of works.

Mr. Kambwili said the road is important as a business link between the Copperbelt and Northern provinces.

He said the project was a good example of the realization of the link-Zambia 2000 started by the late president Sata and shows that projects are on course.

Mr. Kambwili said the road will be a good business route for the people of Luapula which they can use to transport their agriculture produce.

And The Minister explained that government wants to build capacity in the local contractors by ensuring that they got 40 per cent of the major projects are sub-contracted in order to create an avenue for transfer of technology from foreign contractors to local contractors so that eventually the local contractors could also handle big projects with excellence in meeting the quality benchmarks.

Mr. Kambwili said it is government policy to build capacity in local contractors so that skills could be resident in the local people to handle big projects for the development of the country.

And China Henan Chicco Laboratory Engineer Zhang Lei disclosed that out of the 175 kilometers of the project, 90 kilometers has been completed while a stretch of 100 kilometers has seen earth works.

Zhang Lei disclosed that over 800 Zambians are employed in the project.

And Mansa Diocese Bishop Patrick Chisanga commended government for the progress on Mansa-Luwingu Road.

The Bishop said the road is vital to the province because it is connecting the region with the northern part of Zambia and goes beyond into Tanzania and East Africa.

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    • We also need to put in place road maintenance plans.

      Its the lack of maintenance that causes govt to be redoing the same roads over and over again relegating construction of new roads.

      Hence the reason we have not seen new roads in many many years

      One way this road maintenance can be achieved is to decentralize and let councils take over once the roads have been commissioned. Fund councils to maintain roads, thereby creating jobs for locals.

      We cant have everything planned and actioned from Lusaka. its a recipe for retarded development

  1. @1 EDDY, INSTEAD OF CONGRATULATING THEM YOU SHOULD HAVE DEMANDED TO SEE THE IMAGES OF THE ROAD FROM LT. OUR NEWSPAPERS ARE SO !DIOTIC THEY CAN’T PROMOTE THE NATION BY TAKING ADVANTAGE OF SUCH SITUATIONS.

  2. I like President Lungu for being different from most of the PF ministers and cadres, arrogant and pompous just like HH. On Mansa Luwingu Road or for that matter any other road, President Lungu shall ensure that cost of road construction comes down by at least 50% as there is so much corruption loaded in all RDA projects. All his ministers, PS and RDA staff are involved in kickbacks.

  3. ….there is no need to be excited with the outlook, cosmetic beaut of the road/structure…and jump to conclusion that it is an excellent job done…in Engineering we believe in figures of the test results…Did CK conduct any compression tests…did they conform to the spec in the contract..??..that being a commercial road we need to attain atleast 30MPa..has that been done by an independent evaluator..??…has an impact test been done..??..we need these results bwana before we become excited…test figures will tell if the right mixture was done…we do not want a situation were a year later the road start developing depressions..blisters…cracks..because the mixture done was meant for residential roads which may require only 20MPa strength…
    ..remember TB Joshua synagogue..??

  4. When are we going to get excited about projects being delivered on time and within budget…with the incorporation of innovative features signage, reflective markings or noise reducing technology etc.
    When are we going to move forward. ..our colleagues are talking technology we arr stuck in the stonr age.

    Wake up people! !

  5. And yet the solwezi/chingola road remains neglected. There are 3 large mines in NWP but no one cares in this pf about roads there. This is an area where money for country is being made. Some of the places where development has gone contribute zero or negligible to GDP. It is well known that sata hated pipo from NWP and also explains negligence apart from just tribalism. That’s why I don’t agree that tongas are tribal. It is these chaps from the north that are most terrible in tribalism.

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