The Ndola City Council (NCC) has embarked on a solar street lighting project in selected wards of the city at a cost of K590, 582 in the first phase.
The project will be fully funded using locally generated resources under the Ward Development Fund (WDF) and will be implemented in phases in order to address funding and monitoring constraints.
NCC Assistant Public Relations Manager, Waluka Mwaekwa said in a statement issued to ZANIS in Ndola, that the first phase of the project is estimated to cover 3.6 kilometers.
Ms. Mwaekwa explained that the project that kicked off last month, aims to install the solar street lights in at least four wards at a time.
She added that the number of wards benefitting from the project at a given time will increase once the revenue collection increases.
She further said the council has so far completed solar street lighting installations in selected parts of Chifubu ward.
“Works on some selected parts of Kaloko ward are yet to have also started. The next stage of phase one will encompass Munkulungwe and Toka wards as well as completing the works in Kaloko ward,” she said.
She further explained that the Council’s long term goal is to ensure that many more areas of the city are adequately lit using renewable energy-powered street lights.
“We are therefore calling on the community to guard the infrastructure that has been installed, and that which will be installed in the near future, jealously as these installations are a public good and property,” she said.
Ms. Mwaekwa noted that it is important for the communities to remain alert and report any form of vandalism on any public property to either the Council or the nearest police station.
While we appreciate the efforts the Local authorities are making towards improving the cities our concern is the issue of reckless vandalism that is escalating in Zambia. I think laws should be revised to deal with such gross animalistic ugly tendency of destroying public
infrastructure. Otherwise we are very grateful!!!
Great development. Vote pf
You are talking of Ndola, we don’t have ZESCO power here in PHI in Lusaka from 11hrs this morning and its now past 22hrs. Terrible country this one
Vandalism will always exist when people have no jobs = nothing better to do!
Give people jobs first, then toughen laws to deal with vandals.
Then account what happened to the Euro bonds. Tell us who was gassing citizens.
Tell us why our mukula is being stolen, or why our gold mines are being given away. Tell us why our wildlife is being sold. TELL US!!!