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Government considering terminating a contract Kamwili’s company Mwamona

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GOVERNMENT in Mpulungu is considering terminating a contract awarded to Roan lawmaker Chishimba Kamwili’s company Mwamona Construction to build 30 houses for displaced families it has been learnt.

However, Mwamona Construction site manager, Davis Mwila, said it was ZESCO that was delaying the project for failing to pay workers and that the matter had actually been taken to court.

This follows protests by villagers who were promised houses three years when they were displaced from their settlement to allow for the construction of a hydro power station.

A Daily Nation team that visited the construction site found that a total of 15 houses were either at window level or roofed while the rest were in the initial stages of construction.

In an interview with the Daily Nation in Mpulungu, district commissioner Dennis Sikazwe said Mwamona Construction Company had taken too long to finish building the houses for the families that were displaced during the construction of the Lunzua Hydro Power Station three years ago.

He explained that the displaced families were divided into three groups with first opting for cash compensation, second group were resettled in Isoko village while the third group wanted houses in Mankonga area, which contracted was award to Mwamona Construction.

He said individual households that were displaced were given land near Mpulungu Boarding School and Mr Chishimba Kambwili’s company was contracted to build decent houses for the families.

“It is sad that Mwamona has taken three years to construct the homes of these families and up to date not much progress has been made hence the said families have no decent accommodation and have been inconvenienced since then,” said Mr Sikazwe.

He said the displaced families had lost patience and wanted to know the way forward.

He also claimed that the construction company had not been paying their workers, causing the project to stall.

30 COMMENTS

  1. Mwamona “chimukoshi” Construction Company…Why did God make Kambwili ugly and others like ECL good looking? It’s not fair. I look @ Kambwili’s face & so I wonder why he is so ugly and have such an ugly neck when others like Vincent Mwale have nice bodies. Why was God unfair to this creature called CK?

    • P. ****, mind your mental inclination. Everyone was created by the Almighty God in His image. We are all fearfully and wonderfully made in the image of God. Our bodies are just containers. The true us lies within each one of us that’s why when you die, people will ****’s container (body) while the real you will go back to the Owner (God) for judgment and sentencing, hell or heaven. So, better be born again now and be ready either for death or rapture, or the second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. God bless Zambia.

  2. Terminate that contract quickly please!!
    This CROOK Kambwili is as CORRUPT as the other PF crooks he always accuses.
    Kambwili only started moaning about Corruption once he was booted out of the Plunderers Federation (P.F.)
    People who live in glass houses should NEVER throw stones.
    W.@,nya Mbwili, that fat neck will melt.

  3. MWAMONA OR GOVERNMENT WORKERS! ON WHOSE PAYROLL ARE THE WORKERS?

    TO MY KNOWLEDGE ZESCO IS NOT IN THE CONSTRUCTION BUSINESS.

  4. 3 years to construct houses for displaced families. He boasts of going to drink tea in London and come back to Zambia and do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING for the people that make him spend money lavishly like that. These people have no shame at all. They pretend to be for the people while in actual fact they are just corrupt f…ls. Shame on you. At “political consultant”they use stolen money to buy honorary degrees for what?

    • 3 years, and he was still in Government, had he not been fired, he would have finished building those 30 houses by now with money from his favourite source- corrupt deals.

  5. This is the disease of most Zambian companies. No matter the standing of the owners and how much they maybe making,when it comes to remunerating their workers they all behave like they started business yesterday. CK has enough money to pump into that project, pay his people and wait for his invoices to be paid. But he cant do that due to greed. Its him first and the workers last. If government delays payments, the workers go unpaid regardless of how much he maybe making elsewhere!

  6. This means all ministers have companies that are getting govt contracts. Do we expect anything good to come out of these contracts?

  7. Don’t forget how GBM got zesco contracts to himself when he was still in pf! Supplying mealie meal to soldiers in the barracks! These politician are the same!they will promise to serve the”poor” but when given power, they plunder even the little for the poor!

  8. Where is “spaka like lilo” here?this is what we tell you dull people in tonga party UPND that many of these politicians are the same.While in PF Govnt,Kambwili corruptly gave himsels several Govnt contracts.Today Kambwili cries the loudest saying senior PF officials are corrupt minus mentioning himself-amazing!!Even GBM did the same when he was in cabinet.plus this is where HH loses it too by associating himself with corrupt elements such as CK,GBM,etc as us Zambians cannot see the difference between the current PF Govnt and Kainde’s 2099 Govnt!!
    PLEASE ZESCO TERMINATE CK’S CONTRACT NOW!!

  9. Dear bloggers do not be blinded by your anger at CK and fail to look at the facts. As we comment do we know the terms and conditions of the contract signed? If these are known then we have every right to blame the contravening party. If we do not know we keep quiet and find out.

    • Umugoregore, you have spoken well. Thumbs up!! We need to be objective in our approach. God bless Zambia!

    • Umugoregore and Chosen, you have spoken well, but you know what, it is all about politics. Whether conditions or not it is all about politics. Government will definitely terminate and if it means compensating will do that. Recall the Landless project with BY Mwila, government ended up paying BY over K40 billion then. Even me l can do the same politically. But this not good for CK because a lot of things will go down for him. BY died relatively poorer compared to BY we knew before 1991. So even HH knows that GBM let a lot WIlliam Band do not have the integrity but in politics they are ponies in a strategy. It is politics all the way!!!!! So boss let ECL terminate ALL CK contracts with govt for his safety. It is all about politics. Trump is doing the same things for his survival.

  10. TERMINATE THE CONTRACT AND MUZAONA U WILL BE TERMINATED AS WELL ITS NDC FORWARD NO REVERSE CK CANNOT FAIL TO BUILD 30 HOUSE LOW COST FOR THAT MATTER, THEIR ARE CONTRACTUAL ISSUES THATS WHY HE HAS DELAYED, INFACT AS NDC PARTY WE ADVOCATE FOR DECENT HOUSING OFCOURSE NOT FOR FREE BUT PAID FOR

  11. Kambwili doesn’t do what he says, he’s a greedy fellow. People of Mupundu are still waiting for him to go and sort out the mess he caused in the appropriation of land. He got large pieces of land for himself and his Chinese friends instead of giving priority to peasants whom ECL said should be considered first. It’s only the UPND that gets excited by such characters, he’s no morals

  12. Disgusting!!! No doubt his company was always going to make money from the project but I bet you the money fkr wages or materials was kept in someone’s pocket instead of using it as intended and help the displaced family. C’mon Zambia, we can do better.

  13. @******* **** and PF abansele. GOD is watching you. Thank you @ Chosen: That warning to them is timely. GOD is above and them including myself we are below on earth and death is there. Where shall you go? to Eternity or destruction. Whether you have stacks of money, houses, cars and businesses, positions in Government or private sector all these will not speak for you that day of judgment soon coming. Humble your selves and acknowledge today and repent before it is too late.

  14. THE GOVERNMENT ETC HAVE NOT PAID MANY CONTRACTORS FOR WORK DONE (TOO BUSY STEALING THE MONEY FOR THEMSELVES) THEREFOR WE ARE SEEING NO PROGRESS WITH ROADS ETC. I CAN BELIEVE THAT KAMBWILI’S COMPANY HAS NOT BEEN PAID——FIND OUT THE FACTS BEFORE CONDEMNING KAMBWILI====== I BELIEVE THIS IS A WITCH HUNT===============================

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