Michael Sata |
Manyinga has
been a village for decades.
It is
actually a bus stop or lay by on the main road between Mufumbwe and Kabompo
Districts in the North Western Province.
Buses that ply the Mufumbwe-Kabompo road used to stop at Manyinga to pick or drop passengers.
For truck drivers, Manyinga was their lay by where they used to stop and get a nap before proceeding on their days-long journeys.
Buses that ply the Mufumbwe-Kabompo road used to stop at Manyinga to pick or drop passengers.
For truck drivers, Manyinga was their lay by where they used to stop and get a nap before proceeding on their days-long journeys.
But this
roadside community is slowly turning into a town and may possibly be a city in the
coming decades.
Since late
Zambian President Michael Sata declared it a district in November 2012,
Manyinga has seen some change.
It is now an
administrative center for this agricultural community.
At its
declaration in 2012, Manyinga had no infrastructure befitting a district.
Now
government has started constructing various structures to host its various
departments.
Over five
local and international contractors have been engaged to build the Manyinga
District Administration, Civic Center, Police Station and Agriculture offices
among others.
Simuliya
Trading Limited was given a contract to build the office block for the district
administration.
So far, the
Chinese-owned company has finished the first slab and is hopeful of
completing the whole project by October this year.
Hu Sung is
the supervisor at the site and he has concerns about local materials being used
to build the structures.
"We
will complete in October but this sand we are using is cracking too much. It is
delaying our progress," said Hu.
Chingola-based
Toshiber Limited is building the Civic Center and two staff houses at the cost
of K6.9 million.
35 residents
of Manyinga are lucky to have been employed to build their own civic center.
At the construction site |
"We
commenced works in February this year and so far so good. We hope to complete
within the 14 months period we were given in the contract," said Felix
Simukoko, Operations Director at Toshiber Limited.
With
Manyinga's history of being a farming area, Kashimushi Construction has been
contracted to build 16 offices for the Department of Agriculture and works
have have now reached window level.
Government
has further engaged Hero Construction Company to build the first ever Police
Station in the district and works are at slab level.
Senior Chief
Sikufele allocated a huge track of land to allow government build its various
departments for better administration of the new district.
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