Sinazongwe MMD asks govt to release funds for Bottom Road
Sinazongwe MMD asks govt to release funds for Bottom RoadBy Charles Mangwato
Thursday July 12, 2007 [04:00] Print
The MMD leadership in Sinazongwe district has asked the government to release adequate funds for the entire reconstruction of the Bottom Road to help ease communication problems in the valley district.
District MMD chairman Foster Siapwaya said the ruling party was disturbed to learn that prospective contractors had only been allowed to bid for partial works when the entire stretch of the Bottom Road needed full-scale reconstruction.
Siapwaya yesterday said the district party leadership would be more comfortable if the government had released more funds so that the entire stretch of the Bottom Road was worked on.
He said most areas under senior chief Mweemba had become inaccessible as a result of the bad state of the controversial bottom road.
Siapwaya said the situation had caused the ruling party serious problems as people in the affected areas were accusing the government of neglecting them.
Recently, works and supply minister Kapembwa Simbao described the Bottom Road as the worst in the country. The road runs parallel to Lake Kariba in the Gwembe Valley.
Labels: DISTRICTS, INFRASTRUCTURE, LOCAL GOVERNMENT, MMD
posted by MrK @ 1:25 AM
1 Comments:
Now wouldn't this work much better if the council was simply handed money up front by the State, and was merely obliged to account for every cent they spent?
That would be decentralization, not just of tasks, but of budgets.
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