LCC urged to buy a grader or else


Southern Province permanent secretary Edwin Zumbunu has directed the Livingstone City Council (LCC) use the Constituency Development Funds (CDF) to procure a grader for the city.
He was speaking at Livingstone at Civic Centre on Friday, when he addressed councillors from the 17 wards in the council chamber, he said that the grader would help open up the city for development and that without areas being opened up there would be no development in the districts in Zambia.
Mr Zumbunu said the buying of the grader is the direction that the LCC will have to take and that the council will select two people that will learn more about how the grader has been helpful in other districts.
“There is need to open Livingstone for projects so this is the direction that we going to take in the use of the CDF,” he said.  
Mr Zumbunu called on the use for public funds properly and urged LCC to emulate other councils in the province like Kalomo that had decided to procure a district grader.
The permanent secretary reminded the Livingstone council town Clerk Vivian Chikoti and management that they are civil servants and that his office needs reports on how the public funds are being spent.
  He said the councils that are not going to perform will be fired.
“Kalomo has already resolved that they will buy a grader for the district and Livingstone needs to open up areas for development,” he said.
Mr Zumbunu called on the councillors that had issues on development in their areas to put their proposal in wiring so that his office could lobby for funds for them.
He said most of the districts in the province had not been opened up thus the maize that the Government had bought was going to waste.
“There is need to open up the road network as most the roads are impassable, I want you to release the funds for the grader immediately,” he said.
He said it is unfortunate that the council has got a lot of funds that it had failed to utilise the funds.
He said that he is aware that the council had failed to execute the projects whilst the funds are available.
“I wonder why the funds have not been used is it because you do not have the qualified man power to help you do the projects,” he asked. 
Mr Zumbunu said that the owners of the public funds want to see that the funds are bring development in the areas.
And recently Southern province minister Obvious Mwaliteta also challenged the LCC to use constituency development funds (CDF) to address some of the challenges faced in the constituency.
“The PF government has increased the constituency development funds from K 750million to K 1 billion so let us use the same funds to bring change to the people so that they can feel change of government,” he said.
“There is need for the Zambian resources to be shared equally by the people and not only benefit a few individuals in the country,” Mr Mwaliteta.
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