Water Development, Sanitation and Environmental Protection Minister, Jonas Chanda has described as tragic, the state of infrastructure used to treat water and sewerage in Kabwe.
Dr. Chanda who toured the Mulungushi Dam, which is the main source of treated water to Kabwe residents said it is a disaster in the making for the town to have challenges of water supply and sanitation services.
He has since directed Lukanga Water Supply and Sanitation Company to come up with ideal and emergency cost responses, that will urgently address the challenges being faced by the water utility.
The minister said the infrastructure at the dam which was constructed 30 years ago has not been upgraded and can only pump 14-Thousand cubic meters of water out of the 37-Thousand cubic meters capacity.
And Dr. Chanda who also toured a collapsed sewer collector in Natuseko area in Kabwe said the sewer line that has been in existence for two years is endangering the lives of the people.
Meanwhile, Lukanga Water Supply and Sanitation Company Managing Director Yorum Sinyangwe said the plant requires an eleven point 3-million Kwacha emergency response to replace some civil structures and two pumps.
Mr. Sinyangwe has since appealed to the Ministry to ensure the 34 million Kwacha Makululu Water Supply project takes off.
He said once worked on, the Makululu Water Supply Project will help address challenges of water supply and Sanitation that the settlement is facing.
Meanwhile, Lukanga Water Supply and Sanitation Company Managing Director Yorum Sinyangwe said the plant requires an eleven point 3-million Kwacha emergency response to replace some civil structures and two pumps.
Yet Bowman insists that 2 million kwacha is nothing. It is money a day’s shopping for the likes of Him & Tasila.
Don’t worry people of Kabwe, the newly purchased military style riot equipment will be used on you if you ever decide to protest the neglect of such a vital and essential infrastructure.
Who’s the worst culprit whn it comes to paying for mains water supplied by water companies? It’s government agencies of course. There-in lies the solution, at least part of it, to the problem the minister is talking about.
But that constituency for your PF’s best MP Tutwa Ngulube? What does it do there, just preaching Bill 10, while drinking sewer water?
The Minister is talking like someone in the Opposition and not in the current Govt. He monkey brother of Sunday Chanda does realise that it is his job to fix the problem. He completely doesn’t know what he needs to do; absolutely clueless. Giving directives to Lukanga Water isn’t a solution bwana!! You have to come with working ideas not just lamenting after all you are the Govt.
It is a disaster because one of the people in charge there is Tutwa who is currently busy defending thieves who have stolen bus loads of tax payers money which could have been used to sort out the poor water and sewarage systems in Kabwe . So what are you going to do about it ?