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PRESIDENT Lungu has appointed Minister of Finance Alexander Chikwanda as chairperson of the public private partnership council (PPPC) and tasked him to ensure all outstanding projects are implemented.
The appointment is in line with the PPP Act number 14 of 2009, which designates the Minister of Finance as chairperson of the council.
In a statement released yesterday by the President’s special assistant for press and public relations, Amos Chanda, Mr Lungu directed Mr Chikwanda to ensure that the PPPC is operational.
Mr Chikwanda will be deputised by the Minister of Works and Supply, Yamfwa Mukanga.
Other members of the council are Margaret Mwanakatwe, Minister of Commerce, Trade and Industry, Dora Siliya, Minister of Energy and Water Development and Steven Kampyongo, Minister of Local Government and Housing.
Others sitting on the council are Samuel Mukupa, chairperson of the Road Development Agency, Moses Zama, former Energy Regulation Board chief executive officer and an energy expert, Fungai Musana, quality surveyor and investment advisor and Salvatore Hara, a structural engineer.
The President expects the council to work expeditiously to implement all outstanding PPP projects and not to work on new ones as part of government strategy to reduce expenditure on infrastructure development whilst strengthening private sector participation.
“It is not right that well-meaning policies of PPP could be on statute books for years without any tangible project seeing the light of day,” President Lungu said.
During the official opening of the 5th session of the National Assembly, President Lungu directed that an autonomous body be created to professionally deal with PPP matters and that State House, in liaison with Cabinet Office and relevant stakeholders, must spearhead the formation of this body, which will eventually be taken to Cabinet Office.
Government of failures by failures for failures and with failures.
What a useless committee and you think this government can improve Zambia.Patali sana
find a cardialogist before you die of cardiac arrest,pabwatoooooooooo
Sudan calm down you will collapse. no one invited you to make a comment.
Do you think PRIVATE INVESTORS are ST.-u-pid???? They are not marketeers or kaponyas whom you can con!!
it is shameful that state house since Sata has officially become a den of corruption in cutting deals for projects.
Surely what can a Fossil contribute to such….that is refreshing?
Useless comment, Jay Jay grow up you hatred for Chikwanda will kill you. As far as we are concerned the laziest bum of LT, is non orther then you.
No accountability here, you supposed to find an outsider to provide checks and balances. It’s easy for someone to chew the money and claim everything has been spent since you the one signing the check and everything else, nobody will even question you when you in charge of everything
cardiac arrest elo plus nakukaba temperature 30c umo alepena uwa afro naisalangana mucibe BP yakwela ale lwala icifine icishipwa kaili ba maureen naba mutombeshapo ba mufulunganya,how can you have maureen as your personal assistant she stole from the late mwanawasa abana ca bakuluka ama cargo yonse if it was not for Sata and ECL to come to patricks aid nga bwafya bwekabweka and today ati niba assistant amkuluku yekayeka apa takuli
Did I miss something?
How does Maureen come into the picture ai?