President Edgar Lungu is concerned with the high cost of housing units which he says are beyond the reach of many Zambians.
President Lungu says there is need to provide low cost housing units to civil servants and the vulnerable.
He says the housing initiatives which have resulted in houses being built for military personnel and the police should equally be extended to civil servants.
And President Lungu says building of chiefs’ palaces should be a shared responsibility between Government and the subjects.
He has since directed Chiefs and Traditional Affairs Minister Lawrence Sichalwe to engage traditional leaders on the matter.
The Head of State was speaking during the 2019 Cluster Quarterly progress reporting on reducing development inequalities at state house in Lusaka today.
President Lungu said reducing development inequalities is key in ensuring that all citizens have equal opportunities regardless of where they are located.
He said the PF government remains resolute to take development to all corners of the country and give citizens equal opportunities and access to services for improved socio-economic welfare.
And Local Government Minister Charles Banda, who is chairperson of the Cluster, said the meeting looked at issues such as women in rural areas benefiting from the country’s developmental agenda and taking infrastructure development to remote parts of the co
ntry.
Dr. Banda said Government wants to ensure that development is not concentrated in urban areas but also in rural areas where the major population is located.
All talk, no works!
Now that you are broke its a shared responsibility….. chickens are coming home to roost
So Mr. PRES,
Took you so many years to think about “affordable” housing. Where were you and all your corrupt hand picked cronies when all the tenders were give to only the preferred contractors of PF’s choice regardless of inflated numbers? When tenders and quotes are artificially inflated the cost of housing obviously goes up, which then become unaffordable to the civil servants you want to empower. That’s quite fundamental. Don’t have to be an Unza graduate like you. Ask a 6 year old. And now you are complaining?? To date you have only empowered all the PF cronies and Ministers in your Cabinet. Which person(s) have gone behind bars with all this “open” corruption in our country? You seem to be day dreaming. Makes a hopeless leadership, if any at all. Sell your plane and spend…
IMWE….
LETS HAVE SOME RESPECT FOR THE PRESIDENT.
ITS BETTER TO PROPER-REASON NOW THAN NEVER.
ITS NEVER TOO LATE.
PF YOU CAN DO IT FOR ALL.
Yawn! He has directed, he has directed, he has directed. But no results, no results, no results. His ministers think so little of him. They know that his “directives” are empty snd he is too lazy to follow up or set KPIs to be followed. Just wakes up, gives directives and return to sleep and wisky!
And whats this talk about housing units? Give the 48 corruption laced houses built by a known PF minion. All this talk is empty, a provocation to the minds of all thinking Zambians
How much is 25kg meal? Load shedding finished? Corruption everywere. Ba lungu please say anything about economy please, please. Ba lungu never gave power to the speaker..
Does he mean it? Wht’s the magnitude of taxes his govt imposes on construction materials? Is his govt through councils or RDA able to do roadswhn land is parcelled out for residential property development? If his govt can’t do these things, don’t u believe him.
Lungu please ask yourself….How did you end up speaking to an empty auditorium at 2019 UNGA….the answer is simple….you are useless and not fit to be President
With almost 20 million Zambians how did we end up with a dimwit as a President….and who would even waste time listening to Lungu
Do something Mr President. Do not talk like you the opposition leader. You are the action we expect to happen.
This is when he is thinking of poor Zambians housing needs ???
When he has finished the money ?
They were expecting the private sector to build while they were looting
So what are you doing about it?
He has directed the concerned ministers!
Corrupt worst president in the world saw a vision about this in a bottle of Jameson, the chap has the smallest brain in a human ever to live on earth, the thieving lawyer wanna be who stole from a widow is as useless as they come.
No more 5 years. it’s like we are ruled by aliens; Anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found.
Sell your luxurious plane and spend the money on the poor struggling Zambians. After all it’s the tax payers money. Don’t be greedy and heartless. More money in your pocket was for us all hard working Zambians (who will do a hard days work), not the corrupt few you chose as your Cabinet Ministers and yourself. Most of them are just pure lazy. Have some balls and rectify this problem. Yet to see any of your cronies behind bars for corrupt practices. So much of it is open and in front of you. But you are simply toothless.
How can housing be cheap when the cost of building has gone through the roof? Two months ago we used to buy a pocket of Cement at K40. Now you have to spent K130 to get one pocket in Solwezi and between K85 and K100 in Lusaka! Moreover, too many taxes plus inflation (invisible tax) have eroded incomes of many Zambians! How can they afford things when everything has gone up and disposable incomes gone down? Address the cost side of things and affordable housing will be a reality! It all starts with the fiscal health of our economy! Reduce the size of Boma and let government have no business in business then things will change! Free market economics and not GRZ interference is what we need!
This is the time to work as one. ‘It is in one we prosper’ hold hands and lift one another the power of destine.
Country Men and Women, As Alangizi Ba Chitukuko we would like to advise the citizen of this country Zambia that, We must work passionately and unrelentingly for the goal of Freedom, and we must be sure that our hands are clean in the struggle. Therefore we must never struggle with falsehood, hate, malice or bitterness. It is important to respect and work with the government of the day, talking will never provide any solution to this country.
Imwe ba Chitukuko, ikalenifyed. It is through talking (discussing) that solutions are found and acted upon. It is through talking we can engage GRZ to have appropriate priorities and craft policies that enhance quality of life for the citizens. We citizen can not be passive participants as your so called Government of the day mixes up its priorities. You are forgetting that we are part of the Government. We employ the people in Government to do our bidding
2021 will do justice no problem wakogole sukuchedwa kucha
Watch the space , he is planning to loot some more state owned land and award the contracts to AVIC .
His minister was found with tender documents in his house and he wonders why these projects are over priced.
NOT MUCH of a President!
Fellow Zambians, we have all read the article. His Excellence Dr Edgar Chagwa Lungu and His Government are doing what they can to make amends and we know He will. Is there anything that is ever going to give you hope? If it wasn’t talked about, you still complain. Please, let us just support our Government and His Excellence in what they are doing for all of us. And Let us pray for Him too.
God Bless.
the solution to citizens accomodation is readily aavailable if only we can humble ourselves and learn from how decent accomodation is provided to people in refugee settlements were so many get accomodated and have sanittion , education and health care provided without major diseases outbreaks. for instance Mwange Camp in Mporokoso at one time provided for a population that was thrice that of the host district and yet the living conditions were far much better. certain things are for a purpose and good lessons to be learnt. right now lets closely monitor the happenings at Matapala resettlement camp in Luapula Province.