Wed, 01 Mar 2017 13:06:59 +0000 BY OSCAR MALIPENGA TANZANIA Zambia Railways Authority (TAZARA) is depressing and not only is it broke but it is a broken organisation, company chief executive officer Bruno Ching’ambu has told the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee. Mr Ching’ambu said if TAZARA was a private company, it would have collapsed a long time ago but that the only reason why it was existing was a little help it was getting from the government. This came to light after the Howard Kunda-led Public Accounts Committee discovered, after interrogating the TAZARA managing director, that the company had been financially operating at a loss. Mr Ching’ambu said the reason why TAZARA was depressing was that the equipment was very old and that the workforce was highly demotivated because of very poor wages. He said the institution also had no capacity to buy spare parts and repair the equipment. But Mr Kunda warned the […]
