By ANDREW PHIRI –
GOVERNMENT is aware of the accommodation challenges that have arisen following the relocation of the Southern Province administration from Livingstone to Choma, Provincial Permanent Secretary Margaret Miyoba has said.
Ms Miyoba said most workers who had relocated to Choma had no office and residential accommodation.
Speaking to journalists in Livingstone last weekend, Ms Miyoba said accommodation in Choma had since become expensive for the civil servants.
“Ever since the provincial capital moved to Choma house rentals in the area have skyrocketted and this is posing a challenge to many of our civil servants,” Ms Miyoba said.
She said the Government was in a process of constructing office and housing accommodation for the workers.
On the vacant buildings left by various departments in Livingstone, Ms Miyoba said the Government had sent some evaluators from Cabinet Office to see how they could be utilised.
“A team was put up by the Secretary to the Cabinet Dr Roland Msiska and it was in Livingstone recently to asses and determine how we are going to utilise the available office and accommodation space that was left after the moving of the provincial capital to Choma,” she said.
She said the Government was aware of the many vacant buildings in the tourist capital and was in the process of seeing how best some Government departments using rented buildings would benefit from them.
