K10 million has been released by the government to facilitate the PARTIAL rehabilitation and replacement of aging infrastructure, fixtures, and fittings at Parliament Motel in Lusaka.
This came to light when the MINISTER OF FINANCE FELIX MUTATI briefed the SPEAKER OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DR. PATRICK MATIBINI on the measures taken by the Treasury to ensure that Members of Parliament who do not have residencies in Lusaka had conducive lodging facilities during their stay in the Capital City when on Parliamentary and other related business.
DR. MATIBINI and MR. MUTATI conducted a joint inspection of the facilities last Thursday; the day before the official opening of the second session of twelfth National Assembly by President Edgar Chagwa Lungu. An initial joint inspection of the facilities by the Speaker and the Minister was conducted in June, 2017.
Speaking after the tour of the motel last Thursday, DR. MATIBINI noted the tremendous progress made in rehabilitating the facilities “over a short period of time,” and added that, “time has come to relook at the situation and begin fashioning long-term improvements with the ultimate goal of rebuilding.”
Meanwhile Mr. MUTATI stated that the release of K10 million for the rehabilitation proj
During the official opening of Parliament last Friday, President Lungu reiterated government’s commitment to implement the decent work agenda and finalize the occupational safety and health policy; and the social protection bill, to provide a conducive environment for workers to fully exploit their potential in work places without worrying about occupational accidents.
Parliament Motel was commissioned in 1967 but has undergone negligible maintenance over the decades resulting in inadequacy and deterioration of boarding and lodging facilities such as rooms, the kitchen, and the dinning.
The Speaker was accompanied on the tour of Parliament Motel by Acting Clerk of the National Assembly, Cecilia Nsenduluka Mbewe, while Mr. Mutati was accompanied by Accountant General Dr. Dick Chellah Sichembe.
Sell the place off. The overhead is a serious drain from the national coffers.
Sell off ToZ, ZDM, and ZNBC.
Ba LT,
What is the point of showing the same photo 3 times?
Its an old fashioned idea to have a “parliament motel”. What should be done is to build a ” parliament village” with houses built in this place so that MPs can have houses in which they live while attending parliament business. This would mean they cater for themselves, not be given free food & beer as is the case currently. These are huge & unnecessary costs.
Zambia is always behind. And is always running unnecessary bills.
I agree with what you are saying. These are expenses the country does not need.
I also agree with you. They should build them villas where they are able to cater for themselves with their families. Too many free things will make an institution to collapse. That’s why they neglected the structure itself. Almost everything is free
ATI SLAUGHTER FIMOFIMO……………….
why not buy the hotel next door to parliament motel?
This Motel should have been sold off years ago …why should these overpaid fooools have an exclusive accommodation place restricted to the general public what are they hiding? their concubines…let them lodge in hotels around the city or rent for the time they are in Lusaka.
How does it benefit the ordinary citizen, why should citizens pay for MPs sex den? Let them use their money for lodging.
Disgraceful; meantime hospitals are short of drugs.
slaughter house yaba Chakolwa Lungu…