{"id":4759,"date":"2026-07-01T19:07:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T17:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/?p=4759"},"modified":"2026-07-01T19:07:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T17:07:16","slug":"lobito-corridor-project-to-create-employment-opportunities-president-hichilema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/?p=4759","title":{"rendered":"LOBITO CORRIDOR PROJECT TO CREATE EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES &#8211; PRESIDENT HICHILEMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Hakainde Hichilema says the\u00a0Lobito Corridor project will create employment opportunities in North-Western\u00a0Province once it is actualised.<\/p>\n<p>President Hichilema has also assured the people of Mwinilunga district that the contracts for the construction of the Mutanda-Mwinilunga road\u00a0will be signed soon.<\/p>\n<p>President Hichilema was speaking today when he addressed scores of Mwinilunga residents who turned up in large numbers for a community engagement.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, President Hichilema said apart from employing\u00a0workers in the health and education sectors, 1.6 million people have also been put on the Social Cash Transfer (SCT) as beneficiaries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am calling on the people of Mwinilunga district not to vote for independent candidates because the opposition wants to use independent candidates to take away votes from the ruling party,\u201d said President Hichilema.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Hakainde Hichilema says the\u00a0Lobito Corridor project will create employment opportunities in North-Western\u00a0Province once it is actualised. President Hichilema has also assured the people of Mwinilunga district that the contracts for the construction of the Mutanda-Mwinilunga road\u00a0will be signed soon. President Hichilema was speaking today when he addressed scores of Mwinilunga residents who turned up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,12],"tags":[26,25],"class_list":["post-4759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latestnewscentre","category-politics","tag-ineverycornerofzambia","tag-zanis","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4761,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4759\/revisions\/4761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}