The Patriotic Front (PF) says Zambia needs infrastructure development for the country to achieve goals enshrined in the Vision 2030.
PF Secretary General Davis Mwila says according to the party’s Comprehensive Manifesto, infrastructure development is critical to achieve Zambia’s objective of becoming a prosperous middle-income country by the year 2030.
Mr. Mwila also says all-weather roads, accessible schools and hospitals, international standard airports, maritime transport systems and social housing are instrumental in bringing positive changes in the lives of people in society.
He says other factors that impact positively on people’s lives are rural and urban electrification systems, and portable drinkable water services.
Mr. Mwila says low quantity, quality and less access to infrastructure seriously hampers any country’s competitiveness at regional, continental and global levels.
He says low competitiveness due to lack of adequate infrastructure could in turn hamper Zambia’s foreign direct investment in manufacturing and other strategic industries which the country intends to develop.
Mr. Mwila says the PF government spearheaded by late President Michael Sata and incumbent President Edgar Lungu remains resolute to deliver infrastructure development as a means of bringing about inclusive economic growth and development.
This is contained in a statement released to ZNBC News in Lusaka on Monday.
Yes iwe kaabwa but at what cost
Ba Zambia are we really just going to sit back and watch these thieves? These guys are up to no good. This is frustrating
I wanted to read the article and saw Davies Mwila’s name and I stopped immediately. I am PF but regrettably our SG is not smart. It is not his fault though, It is the fault of the appointing authority. we still need to support him though things like him being a councilor in Chipili would have been helpful. You have my support SG
infrastructure development at the cost of indebting our country & auctioning our natural resources, land & sovereignty to Chinese & Lebanese.
Only PF cadres will achieve 2030 goals. They have range rovers, Jaguars, blocks of flats in Lusaka & houses in Swaziland, dubai & Joburg.
Tell us who wrote your grade 12 exam for you ,pantu iwe teti upase.
He should have told the young man who sat for him to do it panono panono; not ukulya 9 points with a distinction in English! How can such a chap have 9 points at G12?
Is this the thug who is on tape urging PF kaponyas to steal council plots and take over public places ?
You think you can borrow yourself into prosperity ? 2030 middle income country ? Another PF pipe dream , not with thugs like you mwila.
The way you are prioritising roads over manufacturing is like a farmer rushing to plant crops that mature in 5 years while his roof is leaking and his machinery is being destroyed
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The shelter called toll plaza on the dual carriage way cost 4.3 million dollars, 43 million kwacha rebased, 43 billion kwacha non rebased.
WE NEED GOOD ROADS FROM NORTHWEST TO ANGOLA/NAMIBIA/LUSAKA…THESE ROADS WILL ATTRACT REAL INVESTMENTS…..
Lets even up the game and keep the development momentum. Afterall Zambia is uncompetitive today because of lack of modern and well structured infrastructure.
Ba UPND, mwanya, infrastructure development costs money and this is common knowledge and PF wont stop until Zambians can compete favourably in the region and world at large. No infrastructure, no job opportunities, so imwe mukose bane!
You are truly a malinso
Yes, every Zambian want infrastructure development but not the way of kulila mwiibala you PF are doing by overpriced nichekeleko deals. That’s what people are fed up of. If everything you have done was in good faith, without corruption, the whole country would have been behind you. Not one would be talking about HH because he would be nowhere to be heard. But the culture of cutting deals, $4.3 million toll gate? Imwe ba Mwila!
Let do it! It is unelectable! HANEGATIVES, “but, but, but,” ANIMO BEHAVIOR.
We all know that; the biggest problem is over-pricing of the projects whereby 50% of the money ends up in your dirty pockets.
You people singing about roads , will people eat roads ? 40% unemployed after you have spent $17 billion on infrastructure and still no investores you dream will come and provide jobs.
We say hold back on the roads and concentrate on import substitutions with local made products….all the hundreds of millions you want yo spend on roads should now be spent on manufacturing to cut imports.
Textile manufacturing is where GRZ should spend their energies , ban all uniform imports GRZ and work uniforms and make them all in Zambia.
Today I leave South America for Australia via Germany and expect to meet anthony and frank bwalya. Lets see their visions.
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Infrastructure is critical for sustainable development. Government is right to focus on building foundation of development. These include airports, highways, university, hospitals, railway line, etc. The deficit is what the country is now trying to deal with. It would have been better to focus right from the beginning. In fact, the FNDP was focused. There after an element of slackening was apparent.
GRZ has thus far borrowed a disputed $17 billion for infrastructure , but we have a very high unemployment rate , 40 % and we have not even yet started paying back the principle sums borrowed , so where will sustained development come from ?? if we are only seeing a trickle thus far, the tax paying working base is too small..And the investores we were told will come flooding in have not come ???
We think all energies should be now directed at job creation via manufacturing to cut imports and boost exports and the GDP.
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There was no slackening, but the government has no money to continue what it started. This was because it had to pay towards loans, which it failed to clear.
The plan is alright if you didn’t steal half the monies for yourselves ba Pompwe
What Zambia needs is human development first. Structures that are being developed will in the near future need service, maintenance and repair, and at the rate we are going, Zambia will have to call upon foreigners to come in and maintain our structures. Politicians seem to think that when foreigners come in and build elaborate structures, that is development. Remember how organised and well maintained our structures and systems were soon after independence. Those systems are long gone because we have failed to develop our citizens to maintain those systems. So Mr. Mwila consult before uttering anything.
Mozambique celebrated the opening of Africa’s longest suspension bridge and it wouldn’t have been possible without a huge cash injection from China. The country’s President Felipe Nyusi declared the bridge WAS open to traffic at an inauguration ceremony on Saturday, with the hope that it will promote tourism in Mozambique. The Maputo-Catembe Bridge connects the north and south banks of Maputo and provides a road link between Maputo and the border of South Africa, which was previously only possible by boat.
Chinese generosity: It cost $785-million to build the twin-tower suspension bridge and 95% of that was through loans from various Chinese lenders.
IT ITS THE SUPERB INFRASTRUCTURE (MAINLY ROADS AND BRIDGES) IN SOUTH AFRICA WHICH ARE ATTRACTING THE WORLD’S BEST BRAINS INCLUDING MYSELF TO SOUTH AFRICA?
ROADS (NEW AND OLD) ARE AS SMOOTH AS IN A SHOPPING MALL.
Superb SG, you are soo power and visionary hence the party is growing in your time as SG.