Govt releases K7m for Feira road works

Wed, 10 May 2017 09:57:07 +0000

By KALOBWE BWALYA

 GOVERNMENT has released K7 million for the rehabilitation of the damaged Luangwa – Feira road in Luangwa district which was partially damaged by the earth movements early this year, Housing and Infrastructure development Ronald Chitotela has said.

In an interview with Daily Nation, Mr Chitotela said that out of the budgeted K9.6million only K2. 6 million remained to be paid to the contactor China Geo contractor.

Mr Chitotela said the rehabilitation of the road was expected to take about two months and will cut through the mountain to avoid similar problems in future.

“We expects the contractor to move on site because we have paid about 70 % and we are only remaining with K2.6 million, hence I do not expects works to derail. I will be tasking my permanent secretary Charles Mushota within 7 days to get to Luangwa and see what is going on with the contractor,” he said

Mr Chitotela said it was government’s role to ensure that people of Luangwa were not cut off completely from the rest of Zambia.

A section of the Luangwa Fiera road was closed for rehabilitation after it was cut into two as a result of suspected earth movement on February 12.