ALLIANCE for Democracy and Development (ADD) president Charles Milupi?has called for investigations to establish who was involved in?awarding the K80 billion contract to local politician, Ben Mwila, which?Government has now terminated.
Mr Milupi said if it was established that non-professionals were?involved in the process, Zambians should be informed about the?necessary steps to be taken in order to redress this.?He also urged politicians running businesses to keep away from?engaging is such ventures.?
Minister of Transport, Communications, Works and Supply Yamfwa Mukanga?announced on Tuesday that the Government had terminated the contract?awarded by the previous administration to Mr Mwila’s company, Wade?Adams Piling, for non-performance.?
Mr Mwila’s firm received an advance payment of K11.5 billion but only?11 per cent of the work was done after more than 10 months after moving on?site.
The contract was signed on December 3, 2010.?Mr Milupi said the PF administration had every right to recover the?money where irregularities were noticed instead of letting the money?be abused.
He said the Landless Corner-Mumbwa Road was very important for the?people of Western, North-western and Northern parts of the country.?
Mr Milupi said government should not use patronage to award tenders?and that politics should be divorced from professional works such as?tenders.?
The ADD leader said professionals should be allowed to adjudicate on?matters about contracts so as to ensure quality works and that the?Government should not be blamed for taking corrective measures on such?matters.?
He said should the investigations reveal that there were underhand?methods employed in awarding the Mumbwa-Landless corner road contract,?those responsible should be made to account for their actions.?
Mr Milupi said value for money, specifications and timely delivery of?jobs should not be compromised because Zambians were in a hurry to?develop.?
Mr Mukanga had said on Tuesday that Government was “very serious?about correcting all irregular transactions” and would therefore not?allow Mr Mwila’s company, Wade Adams Piling to do any more work on?the 65 Kilometre stretch.?Road Development Agency (RDA) Head of Public Relations, Loyce Saili,?also confirmed the termination of the contract in a separate interview?and that efforts were underway to recover the money.
The contract awarded to Mr Mwila, who is National Democratic Focus?president, provided for the upgrading of the gravel road to bituminous?standards but nothing had been done so far apart from grading.?
The contract was divided into two, with China Hainan being awarded the?upgrading of K50 kilometrEs of the stretch on the Mumbwa side. China?Hainan has performed to expectations with 40 kilometres so far tarred.
[Times of Zambia]
Forget Mr Milupi. He won’t. Ni mubemba munzake. He is just trying to discipline him for supporting RB. It will go no further than that.
Mr Milupi is losing focus on the politics of Zambia.Who told him that a company owned by politician can do business in Zambia.He forgets that even in America politicians run business such Dick Chainy former Defence Secretary of USA.In fact he runs oil companies.Milupi should not fight the old regime of MMD.He shu now become the watch dog of the present Government.He will not win sympancy by siding with those in Government.There are procedures in awarding contracts.There shud be no discrimination.Iam not supporting BY and i have never met him before but i have seen him several times in the media.There are institutions in Zambia now which work indipendently if they make a mistake the law will visit them.You as a politician and oposition come on the stage and focus on the future.
@jomie, very hopeless u idiot. u must be very bitter, so in yr right frame of mind u thot for sure that hh would win the elections. dats y milupi came out convincing during debates followed by chipimo
wow what a thought dull zambians
What is Charles Milupi trying to prove on this one? Shouldnt he be talking about more profound matters other than these mundane transfoolery.
#1 JOMIE – correct observation.
All animals are equal but others are more equal & privileged to escape only to the sun rise directions will dealt with – not EUROPEAN direction will be purdoned – deligence and equalty ya lashupa ba kalamba!!! what a slogan dont ku tell them – no meaning but full of negatives fighting there own vision – can someone stand and revisit the mistaken slogan of dont ku!!! aahh confused & lost because of just following un sounded slogan – shame!!! vision depleted with dont – hates me – mulupi continue with your chech & balance but dont forget to dont ku!!!
Milupi don’t start opening healing wounds. You yourself left skeletons in ZCCM. We’ll track you as well, so watch out.
Wade Adams has never bn involved in Road construction.
I think people enjoy dosing and sleeping – even million of commission will solve nothing but dont ku!!! people who are outside are your guards who will bounce on you when you loose your seat!! Busy dosing speaking to somebdy who is awake!! take your history to sanfwa maybe or great north road
@7 Kaponya Viva, Can you please enlighten us on these so called skeletons that Miluppi left in ZCCM since you seem to connote that this man is corrupt.
Send BY to jail please!
I fail to understand the reaction by bloggers to this article. Surely what Milupi is saying makes sense. I agree that even politicians should be able to do business. I also accept the the example given by some one of Dick Churney’s company’s involvement in government contracts. However, there is one big difference. Our so called companies fail to perform there contracts. They just take the money, share it with their friends in government and hope that the project just dies and goes away. Compare and contrast the contract awarded to the Chinese company and the one awarded to Bwalya. Some of you guys really need their heads examining.
As for #1, I feel sorry for you. Small minds like yours are wedded to perpetual victim mentality. You obviously have an inferiority complex. You only see things in terms Bembas and us. A comon problem with Zambians is how they judge everyone by their own standards – poor standards. When they fail, they blame other because it is never their fault. I bet you would never employ a Bemba if you were in charge of employing. Therefore, you think everyone is like you.
No 13 you are very right because some people now seem to connect every bemba speaking to the ruling party and sata. i think bitterness should end and these people must just come to terms and give Sata a chance. Good lucky for your leader HH and let him sale himself like the king did. Zambia is for all and if HH became presido he will rule the whole Zambia for 5 years plus and not a region.
Some times let`s be serious with what we are doing,there is now way you can give road construction to someone who has never involved in road constriction and when did he started,we don`t know this man what he is looking for.Myself i know Mwila as a politician.
Milupi has been critical of bad policies and practices of the PF government like the new committee constituted to reveal the constitution.
Now that he condemns the manner in which contracts are awarded you label him a thief who stole from ZCCM.
If this myopic thinking based on tribe continues then Zambia is headed for doom.
BY like his friend Katele will never be disciplined by the law as ‘Thieves have a tendency to regroup.’
Awarding of the contract was in order. What is not is the failure to deliver by the company. By the way, the contract was not awarded to B Y as an individual, it was awarded to Wade Adams. If all of you remember, Wade Adams are the ones that constructed the Zesco fly over bridge when Sata was governor.
This is the reason why big contracts in construction are given to foreign companies making our Engineers look incompetent when in actual fact not. The reason is corruption in awarding contracts with polics written all over them. Ignorant mushota will have a field day. I suggest we continue giving these contracts to zambians but with close suppervision with shushushus if necessary. If a project is miss managed, the people in charge should go to chimbokaila faster than quickly.
thats why we say these guys are thieves..!
What the man said is correct because graft constitutes the gravest wasteful drain from our state coffers. When Mwila was minister of defence, he awarded himself all the supply contrac ts and never supplied most of the goods but took the money. This has been his long culture since Chiluba came to power, swindling the state. And for any sane Zambian to condemn Milupi for asking the state to probe who gave this man a road building contract when he has never ever constructed one in his entire life, it’s pure masalamusi in the skull. I wholly agree with one of the bloggers above that some people need to have their heads tested for “ubunangwa mu kalukobo” oe buzizi mwa likocokile”.
#18, Building a fly over bridge is not the same as building a road, this is a silly misplaced analogy you’re drawing here. It’s like saying since Dora had conjugal encounters with both Kuluneta and Folotiya, then the two blokes are buddies capable of similar acrobatic gymnastics over all of Dora’s bodily openings! It does not work like that in life, no! See, Kuluneta liked swimming whence the 19 year old goal he scored. Folotiya could not swim, he could not stand it either. His concentration was blow jobs (remember Iris) and his cream shoot is still embedded in Dora’s guts and nasopharyngeal tonsils whence her foul breath and language today. Ni kusiyana siyana kwa maOffice tate.
How much money did the Chinese receive compared to ka K8billion for BY? You Zambian will never support your fellow locals to develop.
80 billion where did you get your 8billion from?
We need our money.
Ba number #18, Mwalishalilako. You dont seem to know a lot of things that go on in Zambia. In case you dont know, a lot of rural roads are done by Zambian companies that are way below than Wade Adams in terms of technical know how. Even my friend Mwiya of Kafue has a company that glades roads in rural Zambia especially western province, and all he has is a glader and a frontend loaderwhich he acquired fraudulently when he was manager at the Kafue quarry. Milupi himself has a company that supplies government and I dont think he does a good job. There a lot of tuntemba companies in Zambia doing business with government. Sata himself has a ka company that supplies Goldstar millie meal to schools and colleges.Ba kamba imwe nga tamwakwata lwenu, as for me I have a truck that ferries maize.
Let’s strive to do things professionally in awarding contracts and in executing them. Remove politics and corruption. Its the only way our indigenous Zambian contractors will raise their game. Spoon feeding them with wako ni wako has spoit them. So let BY’s Wade Adams face the law.
Mr Sata said if elected, Mr Munyama will find it easy to access funds for development from Government.
Zambians never seize to amaze me, a man passes a very good point about some of the companies doing shoddy work and he gets criticized and called names. That is why you fools always vote for the wrong people and then complain down the line. We all know Sata was not the best candidate during the past elections but you voted for home anyway. Now the thieves are regrouping and are going to take what is left. Watch this space. Bloody fools
And what is wrong with what Milupi has said to deserve the negative comments here? WOW! it seems too many people on this blog are eternally depressed, God have mercy!!!!!!!!!
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