Ministry of Water Development, Sanitation and Environmental Protection Permanent Secretary Ed Chomba says the Chikowa dam in Mambwe district in Eastern Province will benefit a lot of households and boost Social Economic Development in the area.
Dr Chomba said the 1.4 million United States dollar World Bank funded dam which sits on 780, 000 cubic meters has harvested enough water for irrigation conservation, livestock and fishing.
The Permanent Secretary said this on his official visit to Mambwe district yesterday to monitor the development taking place on the sidelines of the Chikowa dam.
Dr Chomba also pointed out that the dam will also enable value chain and value addition to the community as his ministry intends to incorporate the department of commerce to ensure that households have an open market to sell their produce when it is ready.
He further noted that if the community utilises the dam well, they can be able to cultivate vegetables and tubers among other products at a large scale which they can supply to large supermarkets across the country, and reduce dependency on imported products.
And Dr Chomba expressed gratitude towards other government ministries that have come on board to see how best the communities they work together to benefit from the dam.
He noted that the Chikowa dam would be nothing if his Ministry was the only one using it as a water source.
Do the so-called beneficiaries know about this dam and it’s intent? Are they ready for it? Hopefully.
This dam is going to positively transform this rural community. I celebrate such news with thanks giving to my God when I receive it and I thank the Lord that He is looking out for His people especially the most vulnerable. GRZ, God is working through you, please replicate this all over Zambia as this is so important for uplifting peoples lives. God Bless Zambia
The Chosen One
“…the 1.4 million United States dollar World Bank funded dam ..”
You think the world bank will replicate this through out Zambia ?
And the Fraud Now Speaks ……. with all the confidence that as usual, the Zambian enterprise has forgotten. I have often said on this forum …. Lungu Cares less.
Zambia, the only country wr crooked people with fake qualifications like this fake doctor of a pastor are let scot free to hold responsible position. If it wr in the western world, this man would have long been jailed and never to hold public office again.
But to our shameless humble pie leader of ours, Chagwa, that is a small issue to act .
What a docile of a people we have in this backward country called Zambia…
This is really sad that people with fake papers are allowed to head ministries.
This chi pastor na jaribu ku menso masquerading as DR shuwa?
@Spaka, is your argument that it’s not development because funds are being sourced from World Bank? For your information there are currently similar projects all around the country including Chisamba, Mpongwe, Luena, etc. Rather than always being negative & unappreciative we should encourage GRZ to source more funds for such projects because they are the ones that have real positive impact on the very poor of this country & I will always encourage these kind of projects. God Bless Zambia
@Spaka, is your argument that it’s not development because funds are being sourced from World Bank? For your information there are currently similar projects all around the country including Chisamba, Mpongwe, Luena, etc. Rather than always being negative & unappreciative we should encourage GRZ to source more funds for such projects because they are the ones that have real positive impact on the very poor of this country & I will always encourage these kind of projects. God Bless Zambia
By not dropping this guy, Lungu is actually committing an offence. It has been disclosed that this so-called Dr Eddie Chomba is an impostor but Lungu doesn’t see it fit to fire him. Where is Zambia’s attorney general?
This has fake degrees when are they going to probe him.Why is government pretending to know nothing over his his degree mills?
Jona Chagwa himself is a dishonest Client embezzling fraudster
In Zambia today it’s free for all, as the treasury is looted like there’s no tomorrow, pimps, spivs & pirates
The Zesco saga proves it, as they have been found out, & now playing damage limitation, telling the docile, “we’ve cancelled the Zesco loan”
Would they have cancelled if we never found out?
The guy went lying low, waiting for the degree saga to simmer and has now resurfaced, talking from a rural area, I am sure testing the waters. I hope Winter has seen this
did he say water or wata?
In any government with any shred of morals this Chomba should have been relived of his duties for giving fake degrees , but this is lungus GRZ where signing GRZ loans against the country is done in secrecy …….where mukula logs are shifted and sold in the dead of night when every one is asleep…….a grz comprised of crookes and theives where dishonesty and shady deals are the norm of the day….
Is this the Bishop with fake papers …he is still getting paid??? really laughable
John 13:34-35 New International Version (NIV)
34 “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
Worra – (Water)
The P.F fraudster still in a job.
Kaya!!
Get a life those of you commenting on his degrees because you have no proof that he has fake ones otherwise report him to the police. This is the reason as to why we Africans Zambians in particular we don’t progress coz we spend too much time and energy on trivial matters at the expense of our own good. We’ve little thinking capacity whilst our friends in the western world keep on inventing new things everyday. So if we can divert our energies and time on productive issues.
We’ll be better people. Imagine half of every day of our lives we spend time on internet, no productivity only bickering on issues that we’ve no control over.
Prof. Hansoni cares in RSA cares less! He will report Lungu to FIFA and to UNESCO now!