President Edgar Lungu has called for the inclusion of experts in infrastructure project implementation in order to eliminate constraints in project evaluations and implementation.
President Lungu says lack of experts in infrastructure project implementation has led to huge costs and delayed project completion.
The President said this Wednesday night when he interacted with participants at the ongoing infrastructure development symposium in Lusaka.
President Lungu also took time to share and exchange ideas and challenges facing various players in infrastructure projects.
The President who earlier officially opened the symposium called for the inclusion of locals in infrastructure project value chain.
President Lungu also stressed during the symposium that government is linking infrastructure such as roads to the agenda of diversifying the economy.
He said there is need for players in infrastructure projects to promote an inclusive approach to policy formulation so that there is local ownership in policy formulation to address the challenges facing the nation.
President Lungu further noted that the fact that the world has become a Global village, globalisation has not contributed to address inequality.
He said globalisation has left least developed countries more exploited than before as most countries are reaping benefits at the expense of beneficiaries when it comes to project implementation.
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After they have eaten all the eurobonds on overpriced overrun projects they now think of experts…truly laughable!!
ECL can even afford to laugh when people are being killed, intimidated on his watch. He is a shameless person who doesn’t deserve to walk the street wit his heard tall
PF thieves at work. After charging us for the most expensive rds, now after they have looted the erobonds now he mentions inclusion of experts.
@2 Jay Jay & @4 Spaka like lilo,while you are right that this should have been though of earlier before embarking on these costly projects,Lungu just inherited all these issues from Sata,whose legacy HH is saying he wants to build on. Mulenga Sata says he left PF to go UPND to protect that legacy bcoz he believes Lungu is diverting from that which could be true bcoz Lungu at least has employed some one to monitor these projects and advise him (Lucky Mulusa)-whether he is the right person and doing the right job is another issue. The next thing we should be looking at is to move RDA back to where it was- under Ministry of Works and Supply.