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Poorly performing construction companies face deregistration

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The National Council for Construction (NCC) has warned that it will deregister construction companies abrogating contractual obligations.

NCC Chairperson Francis Ndilila says the move is aimed at enhancing capacity and sanity in the country’s construction industry.

He told ZANIS in an interview in Lusaka today that the National Council for Construction will not relent in its efforts but ensure that there is sanity and accountability in the country’s construction sector.

Dr Ndilila said as this year’s tenders open for road maintenance, there was need for all companies that will be engaged in road maintenance to improve on the quality of workmanship and ensure that contractual obligations were followed.

He said all construction companies should strive to meet the high standards of specifications involved in the construction industry with a view to improving the sector.

Dr Ndilila further said that consultants and engineers should ensure that they do the high standards of workmanship by supervising the construction process and ensure that the construction works meets the high standards of specifications.

He has since called on all construction companies to follow the NCC set-out rules in the construction sector to avoid being deregistered by Council.

ZANIS/TK/AM/ENDS

23 COMMENTS

  1. and these companies belong to ministers and ministers’ relatives.. what do you expect? tuma certificates of payment nitaputapu when even when the jobs are substandards. same as ba gabbage collectors, whose company do they belong to?

  2. This is just :-@:-@:-@ !!

    Actually they are just asking for an increase in the amount of money they are paid for bribes!!

    These companies pay a lot of money to obtain the licence!!

    If NCC is paid extras then they will not bother them!

    We are not kids!! Do your Job and Shut up!!

    Do not advertise on LT

  3. This place where we went to (as said in another thread) has a bridge that was washed away last year and again this bridge is threatened with collapse. RDA okayed the works when they were completed last year and now this RDA has already sent people (chinese) to work on it. Talk about substandard. Maybe it is a new term ku NCC

  4. Dr. Francis Ndilla has been there for a long time and knows too well what has been happening. When shoddy work is done and contractor taken on. Investigations are conducted by Police, ACC etc. But these are technical/engineering matters which a cop tarined at Lilayi will fail to conclude technically. By time you involve NCC to do technical evaluation the contractor with our legal system the chap would have done his tamanga and sobbered up. Introduce fast track tribunals to handle such matters involving Engineers’ Registration Board, NCC, ABEC, Works & Supply, RDA. As at now there is a cartel from top to bottom & vice versa.

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