{"id":30400,"date":"2022-09-03T16:18:59","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T16:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/chinese-firm-abandons-borehole-drilling-project-in-zambezi-district"},"modified":"2022-09-03T16:39:29","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T16:39:29","slug":"chinese-firm-abandons-borehole-drilling-project-in-zambezi-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/chinese-firm-abandons-borehole-drilling-project-in-zambezi-district","title":{"rendered":"Chinese firm abandons borehole drilling project in Zambezi district"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>Zambezi District Commissioner Simeon Machayi has expressed concern with the delayed completion of a borehole drilling exercise in the district. Mr. Machayi says he is saddened with the departure of the contractor, China Gansu from the site after drilling only 17 out of the 40 boreholes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo the best of my knowledge what I know is they only drilled 17 boreholes out of the 40 that they were supposed to drill, at some point the contractor had some issues with the consultant,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Machayi expressed worry as to when the contractor will be back on site to complete the rest of the remaining boreholes as the Zambezi West bank will soon be flooded making it impossible for the contractor to do anything.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo up to now I don\u2019t know the reasons the contractor had left because he was supposed to rehabilitate 80 boreholes, I don\u2019t think they managed to rehabilitate even 20. He didn\u2019t say bye and we had no time to ask why he had left the district,\u201d Mr. Machayi said.<\/p>\n<p>He said this when Provincial Nutrition Coordinating Committee members paid a courtesy call on him today. In response to the concern Scaling Up Nutrition Provincial Coordinator, Rodgen Loongo said the Department of Water is already in talks with the provincial Permanent Secretary to ensure those issues were settled as quickly as possible. Mr. Loongo said government has already terminated the contract of the consultant and has since granted the department of water to do the consultancy<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\">Zambia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. Zambezi District Commissioner Simeon Machayi has expressed concern with the delayed completion of a borehole drilling exercise in the district. 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