Mon, 05 Dec 2016 09:51:15 +0000 By Mukosela Kasalwe A WRANGLE has erupted between the main Zambian contractor, Buildcon Investments Limited, and local sub-contractors working on the Chingola-Solwezi road due to alleged failure by Buildcon to follow Government policy on empowerment of local contractors. The situation is alleged to have stalled works on the drainages, making the road practically impassable this rainy season. In a statement availed to the Daily Nation, Dahmos Contractors director, Louis Ng’andu, alleged that Buildcon altered a Government document to tailor it to their own terms so as to amass benefits at the expense of the sub-contractors, a situation he said had made the road diversions water-logged and muddy. Mr Ng’andu described the situation as a ‘‘threat to the life blood of the economy, which is copper, owing to the poor road’’. Mr Ng’andu explained that Buildcon was engaged as main contractor to rehabilitate 40 kilometers of the road stretching from […]
