The Private Sector Development Association (PSDA) has observed that reports suggesting that government is allegedly not paying contractors working on the various infrastructure projects across the country is worrying.
PSDA Chairperson Yusuf Dodia says this is because a national budget was approved in which expenditure to pay the contractors working on the projects must have been catered for.
Mr. Dodia has wondered why now there could be such reports suggesting that government is not paying the contractors for the job being is done on the projects.
The PSDA chairperson says his organization to this effect would like government to give clarity whether the contractors are allegedly not being paid because there is no money or whether the contractors are allegedly not being paid because they failing to meet the terms of reference of their contracts.
He says if there are technical challenges government should to this effect find ways of addressing such challenges and if however there is actually no money to pay the contractors, then government should seriously look how it is managing the 2014 national budget.
Mr. Dodia was speaking to Qfm news.
This is very serious issues. Contractor should no be treated like hous servants. They have n ills to pay, workers to take care. People were very happy looking forward t o bid for work but nw people are scared becausenof issues involved
Even us house servants have school fees to pay, wee chipuba wee!!
Yes Contractors are not being paid. Even advance payments are not being made and they want the contractor to move to site and do the work without any Ngwee.
I thought fund will be sourced first before projects are advertised,how then could this be that contractors are not paid.some misunderstanding.
This is a DONCHI KUBEBA GOVNT. once we sign a contract we need you to deliver and we dont care about the payment because you cannever get your facility. Also some contractors do shoddy works how do u expect Govt to pay useless work