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Government committed to ensure quality in its projects

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SPECIAL Assistant to the President for Project implementation Luck Mulusa
SPECIAL Assistant to the President for Project implementation Luck
Mulusa

Government says it is determined to ensure that all the projects being worked on throughout the country are completed to the satisfaction of the general public.

Special Assistant to the President for Project Implementation and Monitoring Lucky Mulusa said the Patriotic Front (PF) government under President Edgar Lungu’s administration is determined to ensure that all infrastructure projects are completed on time.

Mr. Mulusa said it was for this reason that government has increased the monitoring and implementation mechanism to ensure that things are done as agreed at the time of signing the contract with the contractors.

The Special Assistant to the President for Project Implementation and Monitoring said this in Lusaka , today.

This was when he inspected some of the roads under pave Zambia 4000 being worked on in Lusaka by Avic engineering and contraction company.

He said although the city of Lusaka was not properly planned at the inception, government is determined to decongest the roads in the capital city to acceptable standards.

Mr Mulusa, who was in the company of some Road Development agency officials, journalists and other government officials inspected Burma road, Chilimbulu and the company’s base in Lusaka west said he was impressed with the works so far.

He said the company is doing its best to ensuring that standard workmanship is done and on schedule despite some minor lacunas due to the just ended rain season.

Mr Mulusa urged the Avic construction company to continue exhibiting the good works adding that government is happy with the roads done so far in Lusaka.

 Luapula province permanent secretary Boniface Chibwali briefing special assistant to the president on project implementation Luck Mulusa
Luapula province permanent
secretary Boniface Chibwali briefing special assistant to the
president on project implementation Luck Mulusa

10 COMMENTS

    • No Boniface here.
      However mulusa is wrong to instruct contractors to meet standards to the satisfaction of the general public coz public opinion is very subjective.
      Any good contract has agreed time,cost and quality. The contract should guide the contractor what should be built and to what specific standard, at what cost and timescales. These are standard performance measurements which his monitoring team must strictly insist that contractors achieve. If your team is not competent, the poor workmanship will be known to the public and they’ll react.
      Therefore, you can’t expect the contractor to satisfy the public as if they are party to a contract. For Gods sake the public doesn’t know what you have agreed with your cadres in the contract.

  1. If Lungu has done anything sensible in his 90 days, it is engaging Mulusa. He appointed the right person for this important job.

    I like what Lucky is doing….the RIGHT THING.

    • Is Mulusa a structural engineer expert? There’s a difference between being a hard worker and want to been seen working.

    • Is Mulusa a structural engineer expert? There’s a difference between being a hard worker and want to been seen working in front of a camera.

    • Mulusa is a wrong person for this job. He is not qualified to monitor progress in construction and associated industries. He would have done a better job in financial or accounting – special duties. How do employ a person who has no concrete ideas in construction and structural worlds? That’s why we have substandard roads or projects. Roads which last less than 7 years, span life. That’s why the mines employ people from outside Zambia or Zambians who have practical experience from abroad. Zambians failed to run ZCCM. How come foreigners manage to run the mine successfully even in times when copper price is down? Reasons: appointing cadres who are not qualified, friends and relatives who have no merit, but just academic qualifications, papers which do not produce productive work

  2. IF ONLY LT AND OTHER PAPERS CAN LEARN TO SHOW THE READERSHIP AT LEAST AN IMAGE OR TWO OF WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT AND PROPERLY CAPTION THOSE IMAGES, THAT WOULD BE MORE INFORMATIVE. ALAS, WITH ZAMBIAN JOURNALISM, THAT’S ASKING FOR TOO MUCH.

  3. Mulusa is a wrong person for this position. Someone with expertise in construction project management would have been suitable.

    In a project their are mainly tow parties involved, the client (employer) and the Contractor with maybe consultants in between. Both parties are expected to meet their obligations if the project has to be finished on time, on budget and to the right quality.

    In most cases in Zambia this is not the case. You find that the employer, the government, is not paying the other party for works already done. This slows down the project and deadlines are not met.

    Then there is the contractor who under quotes, has little management and equipment capacity but ends up getting a contract through corruption. Poor quality in the end.

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