Team captains for National Airports Corporation(right) and
Kazungula(left) before the women’s final during the 2016 Regatta in
Livingstone
Mr Mawere, who yesterday inspected the facility, was disappointed that Profab Construction Company, abandoned the works which have been at slab level since 2013.
The minister observed that the project, which was pegged at K9.2 million, was supposed to have been completed by 2015 but was abandoned at slab level.
Mr Mawere also noted that the works were of poor quality.
He expressed concern that Profab abandoned another project of building a youth resource centre in Luanshya.
The minister wondered why the Ministry of Works and Supply had continued to award contracts to the company which he said was not only doing poor quality works but also abandoning projects.
He vowed that he would follow the matter with the Ministry of Works and Supply to ensure that the contractor is made to account for the monies.
Mr Mawere noted that other contractors that were building similar structures had completed the projects after being given the down payment.
And Chama North Member of Parliament, Darius Mumba, expressed concern that youths in the district are not able to acquire certain skills due to the delays in the completion of the project.
Mr Mumba said other programmes that are dependent on the completion of the project have not been implemented as the resource centre has not yet been completed.
And later when he inspected Zgangani Kachinga resource centre in Lundazi district, Mr Mawere said government wants to secure land for youth resettlement schemes in an effort to empower youths who want to get into the agricultural sector.
Mr Mawere observed that youths in the country do not have the capacity to acquire land, saying government intends to empower those that are interested in agriculture with land.
He stated that the youths that will be empowered with agricultural skills in youth resource centres will be given land and start up kits
after graduating.
The minister wants to see youths engage in economic activities and sustain their lives as opposed to excessive beer drinking and illicit sex.
He stressed the need to follow up youths that have graduated from the facility in order to find out how they are doing after graduating.
Meanwhile, Zgangani Kachinga Centre manager, Isaac Njovu, said over 5,000 youths have graduated from the centre since inception in 1984.
Mr Njovu said most of the youths that graduated from the centre have successive businesses while others have been employed.
Dimwit
K2m out of K9. 2m should give you a slab or less. That’s assuming that the contractor did not have to pay backhanders and kickbacks to PF for giving him the contract. Just pay up the balance for the contract to be completed.
Why not arrest them? its the same PF contractors, Zambia is so finished.
I have never understood how in Zambia contracts are abrogated like at will without losing practicing licesenses and court action on the defaulting party. This is completely ridiculous. How may times are we going to hear this same crap? We have a lot of law makers in parliament with dismal capacities. I wonder how they account for their pay checks and allowances
The answer is that Zambia is a land of PFieves. Zambia is a failed state. How can a thief who stole clients funds and was exposed and convicted by his own peers in LAZ end up in State House as President and you still hope that the country is normal?!
They have the right to leave because of funding.Government is only paying civil servants as if they are the only citizen.
K2 million out of k9.2million and you expect the contractor to finish the project; people should use their brains to think and not their mouths, who does he want to impress? Ask the contractor why he hasn’t been finishing projects, it’s simple you have already answered yourself 21 percent down payment
@zambia the real africa, please stop and think as you do not understand how government contracts work. Advance payment is for mobilization and administration fees, it is criminal to receive mobilization fees and fail to do the work.