Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Government considering suspending funding to C400 road rehabilitation Projects

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Housing and Infrastructure Development Minister Hon Vincent Mwale says government remains committed to funding the C400 road rehabilitation and construction project on the Copperbelt.

The Minister says the Ministry of Finance is seriously considering ways and means of funding the road project.

He, however, says if it is established that the Ministry of Finance is unable to immediately avail resources towards the project, his Ministry through the Road Development Agency (RDA) will have to find means of ensuring that the project is completed.

Minister Mwale who is also Chipangali member of Parliament says his ministry is alive to the fact that most Township roads on the Copperbelt are in a deplorable state and urgently need attention.

He said it is only the C400 Road Project that will address the situation.

The Minister was speaking in Kitwe, Thursday, when he together with a team of RDA Engineers inspected some Township roads and washed away bridges.

Hon Mwale is on a tour of inspecting the state of roads and washed away bridges to ascertain what type of interventions is required.

He says after the Copperbelt, he is proceeding to Luapula and Northern Provinces.

And after a successful tour in Kitwe, the Minister directed the Road Development Agency to quickly find solutions of addressing all the washed aways Bridges and that where funds will not allow, he will engage the Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit (DMMU) in the Office of the Vice President to assist.

Meanwhile, Kitwe Mayor Christopher Kang’ombe says the City has been negatively affected with lack of funding of the C400 Road Project.

He says this is because the road project once completed will change the face of Kitwe.

Mayor Kang’ombe says following the heavy Rains the country has been expirencing, Kitwe has recorded a number of washed away Bridges which needs to urgently be attended.

The Kitwe Mayor has also appealed to the RDA to consider a variation on the Kitwe – Chingola road so that the road can reach the Central Business District (CBD).

15 COMMENTS

  1. Always considering but never actually doing. Simple economics here imwe. We have scarce resources that needs to be prioritized to the more pressing needs right now.

  2. Totally failed state. Hallmarks of a failed one visible every where. And strangely they want to come again in 2021

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    • The only reason they want to come back is to save themselves from going to jail due to the numerous crimes they have committed

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  3. This is understandable especially in the current circumstances with covid 19. Lives are more important than roads. Do what is right. Thanks. If upnd are really desperate for that road why doesn’t their caring billionaire president build it.

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  4. KZ. HH’S money is not money for the state or govt it is his personal money. Point to anything PF built when they were in opposition? PF instead of using people’s money wisely they have been corruptly stealing it from the inception of Edgar reign. Why did Sata RIP do away with you and why did lungu bring you back by defiling what SATA did.

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  5. ROWDY,THIS KZ GUY IS NOT NORMAL. HE HAS ALOT OF HATE FOR HH. THAT IS WHY ONE DAY AND SOON HIS SHADOW WILL FOLLOW HIM AND RAN AWAY FROM IT. HH WORKED FOR HIS MONEY NOT HIM .HIS IS THROUGH PILFERING. KZ, U SHOULD THANK GOD THAT U ARE AT STATE HOUSE . BUT,THAT CHARMS U USE WILL ONE DAY MAKE U REGRET AND IT IS ABOUT TO EXPIRE. THAT IS WHY CAT POWER INSULTED HIM SO MUCH TO THE POINT THAT I STARTED FEELING BAD IF SOMEONE WAS TO INSULT MY PARENTS CZ OF MY OWN STUPIDITY. KZ U SHOULD HAVE SENSES. SATA CHASED U AND IMAGINE IF HE WAS ALIVE HOW AND WHERE U COULD HAVE BEEN.

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  6. @Tondo, you are right. Now they will shift the blame of loadshedding onto coronavirus’s covid-19. Watch the space. This is an administration without shame as they continue to play politics with anything at their disposal. It is very sad. Watch how they are harassing people under the guise of archaic defamation laws meanwhile.

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