By ROGERS KALERO
CHIMWEMWE Member of Parliament (MP) Allen Banda has said a number of gravel roads in the constituency will receive a face-lift following the grading of roads which has commenced after the constituency purchased the grader under the Constituency Development Fund (CDF)
Mr Banda said the grading of the gravel roads in the constituency, especially those in agricultural and peri-urban areas will ease the transportation of goods and people as most of the feeder roads were impassable
Mr Banda said the road works commenced on Thursday, last week with Chimwemwe East Road passing through Kabala and the grader was currently on the Nakayombo Road
The Chimwemwe MP said he had met ward councillors to discuss the road map on how the grading of gravel roads will progress across the Constituency to ensure that those roads which were impassable in all the wards received a face-lift.
“The grading of gravel roads in Chimwemwe Constituency has begun following the purchasing of the grader in Constituency. The road works commenced on Thursday, last week with Chimwemwe East Road passing through Kabala and the grader is currently on the Nakayombo Road,” Mr Banda said.
“Today, we met the ward councillors to discuss a Road map on how the grading will progress across the Constituency .We would like to appeal to the public to cooperate with the people who are working on our roads. Together we can make a better Chimwemwe,” he said
In June , this year during the handing over of a grader and three banana boats procured under the 2023 CDF for Chimwemwe constituency, Kitwe Mayor Mpasa Mwaya warned that road contractors who had not mobilised or taking long to mobilise should have their contracts cancelled
Ms Mpasa said road contractors who had not mobilised or taking long to mobilise should have their contracts cancelled and the money channelled towards buying fuel for the newly acquired grader for Chimwemwe constituency which will be used to work on various roads in the constituency
Ms Mwaya said there was no way the local authority can be pleading for contractors to mobilise and start working on the roads when they had already been given money to start working on various projects
“Now that the Chimwemwe Constituency has acquired its own grader using the CDF, its time for the local authority to consider looking at the contracts that have been given to some contractors. For those contractors that have not mobilised or are taking long to mobilise, they should have their contracts cancelled,” Ms Mwaya said.
Ms Mwaya said the grader has been bought to help improve the road network in the constituency while the boats are aimed at saving the lives of people living across and near the Kafue River where about 28 lives were lost through drowning last year.
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