AGRICULTURE and Livestock Minister, Emmanuel Chenda, will summon the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) management to seek the way forward on the incomplete K72 billion-contract for storage facilities.
The FRA had engaged companies to construct 98 concrete slabs from August to the first week of this month, but only three have been completed.
Mr Chenda has warned that there would be no sacred cows if the Government established that some contractors had abrogated the contract.
The minister said in an interview yesterday that the ministry wanted to establish how the contracts were given out during the previous regime.
He said it was highly irresponsible for the previous Government to award contracts to cadres without the capacity to carry out the job.
“It is unfortunate that the previous government gave contracts to MMD cadres who have no capacity to do the job, we are not going to allow that as PF Government because we want total accountability,” Mr Chenda said.
FRA awarded contracts in August and September this year to construct additional storage facilities in form of concrete slabs countrywide to secure the excess of maize from the consecutive bumper harvests.
The work was expected to be completed in eight weeks. FRA gave the contractors 50 per cent advance payment.
The 50 per cent advance payment translated into K400 million as reserve price for a 3,000 tonne slab while K800 million for a 5,000 tonne slab.
Mr Chenda said the damage control was an expensive undertaking, stating that the Government would ensure that defaulters paid back the money.
[Times of Zambia]
Yes get them. Baleiba baya namukukla amayanda while us we were getting astonished as to where the *****s were getting the money from. Ba kapoli.
Chain them , they have even developed potbellys over our money
talk about your kapoko and chiluba not our educated malambo
Lovejoy Malambo is not buffon like most of the Ministers. He has always worked above board and when they contracted people to do those works they meant well. It is the contrctors who should be answerable.
“He said it was highly irresponsible for the previous Government to award contracts to cadres without the capacity to carry out the job”.
“FRA awarded contracts in August and September this year to construct additional storage facilities in form of concrete slabs countrywide to secure the excess of maize from the consecutive bumper harvests”. So what are you saying Mr Chenda? Can you tell us which contracts were awarded under PF and which ones performed? In any case you probably froze all contracts awarded under MMD or you forgot to supervise any of them in your haste to find witches, or you put so much fear of job security at FRA that they froze and forgot to supervise the contracts.
Whatever it is Mr Chenda, the buck now stops at you, you are the guys running government have you forgotten so soon? Why do you want to take credit for all the good things from MMD and pass the buck for all the UN-GOOD things?
Such things are everywhere. Even PF will have their own contractors chew cash and do nothing. I end here!
PF wankers keep on talking about what the previous government did. I beg you to take action based on evidence and to stop making public statements so you can just excite the simple mind of PF masses. Just prove one incident and the we will believe. Even on Liato prove that he stole that money from government or took it as a bribe.Â
We have to blame the MMD for this, how do you give caers projects like maize storage, they don’t even have a know how. Look at the Road from Landress corner -Mumbwa road, they gave it to BY, who does not even have a truck, machinery on the sight. who do you blame pf or MMD in awarding contracts. common sense.
#8 Huh,
Start thinking with your head not your ass!!