UNZA may open this month end – Registrar

Wed, 14 Feb 2018 10:55:51 +0000

By CHITE MTONGA

GOVERNMENT should open the institution by the end of the Month as it requires adequate financial and human resource for the University to meet the required expectations of health inspectors,   University of Zambia Registrar Sitali Wamundila has said. 

Speaking at a press briefing in Lusaka Mr Wamundila said the lack of financial resources and manpower to help with the rehabilitation works had greatly hampered progress.

He however said management hoped the institution would meet the standards set by the health inspectors during their next visit at the institution before the end of the month. He said it was hoped that the next visitation by the inspectors would lead to the reopening of the institution.

“This University was built over 50 years ago and most of its infrastructure requires massive rehabilitation and it also being the largest University in the country in terms of infrastructure and student numbers means the amount of works required to be done are massive, ”Mr wamundila said.

He said the Minister of Higher Education had visited the university several times for the purposes of assessing readiness of the institution for reopening and health inspectors had done the same but it was still established that a lot still had to be done. Mr Wamundila explained that once the University was opened construction works would continue and all students would be expected to safeguard the infrastructure.

He said that UNZA policy did not have a policy to provide alternative accommodation for students who were not accommodated therefore any student found with squatters would lose their rooms.

Mr Wamundilla said the University using internal resources had so far managed to rehabilitate ablution blocks, mend water leakages and improve the general water supply.