MINISTER of Local Government Vincent Mwale told Parliament on Thursday that the unfinished building at the junction of Katondo Street and Freedom Way in Lusaka’s central business district has remained in that state for a long time because of a series of litigations.
Mr Mwale was responding to a question from Milenge member of Parliament (MP) Mwansa Mbulakulima (PF) who wanted to know why the building has remained incomplete for a long time.
Mr Mbulakulima also wanted to know the owner of the building and the way forward about the structure which poses a threat to life.
“Madam Speaker, the delay in completing the construction of the building in question has been caused by a series of litigations. The structure was originally owned by Zambia State Insurance Corporation which later sold it to Royal Lutanda Company Limited in 2001,” Mr Mwale said.
The minister assured the House that the owners of the building will resume construction works as soon as issues of litigations and financing are finished.
1986? Litigations, meaning court cases or what? If zambian courts can’t pass judgement on buildings, how can they do on UPND political prisoners?
Litigation or no litigation who are the registered owner’s?
The council has a responsibility to ensure that building in the city adhere to required safety standards to protect the public.
This building near one of The city busiet places clearly has not complied even with minimum safety standards!
Sadly we never learn from our own disasters!
Exactly 1986…..It’s like the now completed Carousel Centre which started a little earlier than that
Kikiki ati working government. Useless baboons. Paralegal hippos Kiki. If lungu cam fail to build a simple toilet in chawama uou think that rat can complete a building like that. These are things hh will complete. This is not a task for a small boy like lungu.
is that a government or private property?koma ndiwe galu iwe.
Poor governance in Zambia with politicised Lusaka council makes it impossible to function and supervise effectively requirements buildings in the capital city. How does such an incomplete ugly building stand in the middle of the city for 40 years without any action?. Corruption after corruption disguising litigation, how much rates has been collected by Lusaka City council from such a building that has brought untold inconvenience to the general public for such a long time?. Next, some people will say its normal to be under a state of emergency. What a load of tosh.
That piece of crap has been in that state for decades, if you can recall it even killed a baby, in the 90s, when one of the pieces of metal hanging, came down and missed a woman but struck the baby she was carrying on her back, i’ll never forget, even then nothing was done about it, I can’t believe it still remains in that state…shame, we are talking of how many goverments? Construction started when KK was president.
It’s true that the building as being there For years ad years but this is not the pf governments faulty. Listen people let’s just work together to make a better Zambia ,this is not the time to point figures on one another ,this is the time to develop our one country
Nice one, the only sensible response thus far. People should realize that the PF is the only government that has improved the infrastructure of this country after UNIP.
Its not right to have such an eye-sore in the centre of the CBD for 31 years. This is when the government needs to “dictate”, and just repossess it, or pull it down.