By CHILA NAMAIKO –
A UNITED Party for National Development (UPND) parliamentarian has praised Government for implementing various infrastructure projects in his area of which many have successfully been completed while others were underway.

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Vitalis Mooya, a Member of Parliament for Moomba Constituency in Monze, Southern Province, is impressed that, through the projects, the local people were accessing employment opportunities.
Mr Mooya was happy that more than 60 per cent of the Constituency was connected to the national electricity power grid by the Rural Electrification Authority (REA), out of which many public institutions such as schools and health centres, had benefited.
He said in an interview yesterday that construction of the first-ever Kaumba Boarding Secondary School was close to completion stage and would be commissioned in June this year.
“On behalf of the people of Moomba Constituency, I am very happy with massive developmental projects Government has taken in our area. I am one of the happiest MPs because these projects are positively changing the lives of local people,” he said.
Once completed, the high school, which would be the only higher learning institution in Moomba, would reduce long distances pupils cover to access higher education.
Such development would also reduce cases of school drop-out and child-marriages, which were on the increase in the Constituency.
On the health sector, he said Muunyu Mabisi had become the first-ever health post among the 99 under construction in Southern Province to be completed and was commissioned by Health Deputy Minister Chitalu Chilufya a few months ago.
Other health posts in the area were Munjika and Nkambo health facilities, which had reached more than 90 per cent completion point, while another, Bwala was at slab-level.
He said that besides the four health posts, four old ones, Choona, Mwanza-Njola, Moomba, and Kaumba health facilities were functioning well and would supplement the new ones in providing quality health
care services to people.
“When I say I am a happy MP, this is what I am referring to because since Independence, we have had no such developmental projects in my Constituency,” he said.
He was confident that, by 2030, Moomba would have more modern infrastructure projects, thereby reducing poverty levels.