By SIMON MUNTEMBAGOVERNMENT will not tolerate continued delays in completing infrastructure projects that are fully paid for because procrastination increases the costs.Higher Education Permanent Secretary, Kayula Siame, said projects that were overshooting the deadline in completion had cost implications, to the detriment of taxpayers and national development.Ms Siame said this when she toured Lundazi Trades Training Institute construction site yesterday.According to the ministry’s public relations department, Ms Siame expressed displeasure over the slow pace of construction of the training institute.She said it was unacceptable that the project, which started in 2015, could be delayed further when Government had released funds to tackle the challenges contractors faced to have it completed.Ms Siame admitted that the project had a number of problems, among them, designs which had to be redone and unavailability of resources.She however said now that the funds were released, works should be expedited.“Resources have now been made available to complete the project fast. The […]
GOVT WARNS OVER DELAYED LUNDAZI TRADES PROJECT
