Zambia Congress of Trade Unions Secretary General Cosmas Mukuka has bemoaned the underutilisation and lack of organisation in the construction industry in the country.
Mr Mukuka said in Solwezi today that the construction sector potential in the country can be diversified and used to develop skills that can be exported.
However, he noted that the sector is still disorganized unlike in other Southern African countries like Zimbabwe and Malawi.
He said Zambian real estate developers were importing plumbers from Malawi and carpenters from Zimbabwe to carryout works in the construction industry.
He said this is because construction workers in Malawi are organised in corporations and associations unlike in Zambia.
Mr Mukuka was speaking when members of the steering committee on the Green Jobs Programme paid a courtesy call on North-Western Province Minister Dawson Kafwaya.
The Zambia Green Jobs Programme’ is aimed at promoting sustainable enterprises, creating more and better jobs, protecting people and preserving the quality of the environment from projects like the Sentinel mining project.
The Union leader said the Green Jobs programme can actualise most issues raised by President Edgar Lungu in his speech to parliament because the programme can be connected to a lot of economic activities
And Finland Ambassador to Zambia Timo Olkkonen, who was part of the steering committee, said the Finnish government has provided 11 million euros for the implementation of the Green Jobs programme.
He said the Green Jobs project is important because it combines the creation of employment and improvement of livelihoods which are important issues to the government of Finland.
That’s What happens if the government is disorganised. you have just come out because no authority is passing your way to aid you to criminally buy a range rover like the other thieves. Lol