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Contractors abandoning projects to face wrath of the law

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Government has instituted investigations into several named constructors who abandoned a number of developmental projects they were undertaking in the district.

Namwala District Administrative officer Mr. Godwin Sanjase disclosed this in an interview with ZANIS today.

Mr. Sanjase cited Kabanga health post, which was abandoned at roof level and the Kabulamwanda- Maala road projects among several others that were abandoned by some named contractors.

“Government is currently investigating some contractors in the district who were engaged to do developmental projects since 2002 but later abandoned them,” he said.

Mr. Sanjase, who could not say how much all the abandoned projects cost government, said it was retrogressive for contractors to abandon projects for no reason at all.

“I think stern action should be meted out to those contractors who will be found wanting,” he added.

During a full council meeting on April 11 this year, Kabulamwanda Ward Councillor, Hebert Diangamo, raised concern over what he termed prolonged delay in the completion of some developmental projects in the district.

He called for a thorough investigation into a number of contractors failed to complete that projects despite government releasing money for such projects.

8 COMMENTS

  1. The investigations will stop immediately they discover that the contractors abandoning those projects are in fact the dubious companies of Ministers’ Permanent Secretaries’ MPs’ and other senior government and MMD officials and their wives, uncles, nephews and children etc! Good luck in your fight against corruption Mr. Family Tree!

  2. Spot-on, Eagle-One USA. I was really thinking about the same thing after going thru the editorial. It raises more questions. You see in Zambia despite the fact that a lawyer is in the driving seat, there is absolutely, no law. In fact, the country is for grabs. Just a visit to Kamwala Inter-City Bus Terminus (KICBT) will put you in the clear as to who is practically in the saddle. The thugs are running the country. I fail to understand why the pathetic problem of thuggery at kicbt cannot be dealt with. It is a very simple issue to solve. Travellers/passengers are robbed by thugs pretending to be conductors/assistants while the general public look on. of course there is nothing the public…

  3. …can do to help for fear of being brutally beaten up by thugs, themselves. I am pretty sure people especially travellers know what am talking about.

    Now, one can only understand, because if you have thugs for leader up there they actually cancel out to zero with thugs at kicbt. Therefore, leaders dont see thugs at kicbt. They see accomplices.

    “Contructors who abandon projects to face wrath of the law”. Which law? Where there are laws you dont need to compose a song about it. The (effective and practical) laws put offenders in their right place. All you read is such and such a person has been sentenced to xyears for yoffence(s). Iyabuluma (nkalamo) taipaya,…

  4. As #1 has already pointed out-the fact is those companies facicing the wrath of the law would be like a judge sentencing himself to death by lethal injection. Those companies are either for the president and his ministers, relatives or very close pals. So, the law can only continue to warn them.

    If there was law in Zambia under levy, how can you account for chiluba’s case taking levy’s political life time? “Justice delayed is justice denied”. This is a basic principle of law faculty. You only need to have learnt social studie or civics to be aware of it. If this principle holds true, then levy has completely denied the people of zambia their basic right to justice. And the people have…

  5. Investigations after investigations!!!!!!!!!!!! when is the ACTION?????
    The other day it was tomorrow investments and others, government talked, the auditor general hired, but to date NO action has been taken and it dies just like that!
    Looks like the investigations are just another way of dipping into public funds thru paying of allowances that are more that the resources spent on the abandoned projects!

  6. I totally concur with number 1. We have had such cases before during the Chiluba era when MMD govt was awarding contracts to themselves for water rehabilation and infrastructure rehabilation in Research Stations. Some of the foundations have become dangerous for livestock for example at one of the proposed site for Region 1 in Sialwala in Gwembe valley.What has gone wrong with the supervisors of these contracts? How do you pay a contractor a huge sum of money before he does any work? The payments are supposed to be in phases, but to my surprise is that before the contractor does any work is given all the money.

  7. Corruption is deeply entreched in our country. The fight on corruption should be supported . It is a fight which won’t be won in a year but will take decades…to minimise. Look at what is happenning at bus stations, the kaponyas were used by FTJ and King Cobra as MMD security and some of them are now bus operators. During the third term kafwafwa King Cobra even armed some of them. Let us prosecute the thieves and bring sanity to this country. Chekeleko must stop!

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