KANYAMA SLAMS THREE SOUTH LAWMAKERS

By NATION REPORTER THE move by three UPND Members of Parliament to patch Mazabuka Road on Monday in front of cameras is a big joke intended to embarrass the PF Government, Siavonga District Commissioner Lovemore Kanyama has said. He said if the mission of the three MPs, among them, Siavonga’s Darius Mulunda was to embarrass Government, then they had missed it because they had portrayed their lack of understanding on how Government operates. The other two MPs involved in patching the road are: Chiingu Miyutu (Kalabo Central) and Harry Kamboni (Kalomo Central). Mr Kanyama said most roads in the country were damaged during the 2017-18 rainy season and Southern Province was not an exception and therefore it was a big joke for the MPs to resort to patching the road. Mr Kanyama said Government was aware of the problem and had put measures in place to rehabilitate the affected roads including Mazabuka road. “Government will continue rehabilitating the damaged roads as witnessed in Siavonga and other parts of the country,” said Mr. Kanyama. Mr Kanyama advised the MPs to stop politicising the issue of Mazabuka Road as the government had already engaged a contractor to rehabilitate the road. He said instead of spending their money on a project that was already budgetted for by Government, the parliamentarians should use their little resources to better their respective constituencies. “My appeal to those three parliamentarians is for them to channel the little resources they have to their respective constituencies because they have no capacity to undertake such road rehabilitations,” he said. Mr. Kanyama added that the three MPs who were captured patching potholes on the road were “just jokers” because only Government had capacity to rehabilitate roads and not individuals. He wondered why the opposition MPs decided to use their resources to patch potholes on the Mazabuka Road when the constituencies they came from also challenges that needed their attention. “People who voted for them are still looking forward to them fulfilling their campaign promises such as employment, empowerment and payments of their children’s school fees, these were some of their campaign promises they made during the 2016 general elections,” he said.