By Daily Nation ReporterPresident Hichilema said when he opened a workshop for ministers and permanent secretaries to discuss issues of procurement that some former ministers were colluding with other offices to give each other contracts some which were not delivered but paid for.“I am asking us to restore order in the public sector procurement. K12 Billion kwacha contracts entered into for feeder roads. Contracts were given to people who have never owned a shovel or a pick. People who don’t know how to constract the roads. Some were paid 20 per cent in advance and they sit in that parliament making noise. Very courageous people. I am sure in their genetic material they were meant to have Dutch courage. If it were me, I would not even open my mouth in that parliament,” said President Hichilema.“That was the money they were flashing, which you saw before elections. I wouldn’t say a word. I would be […]
PRESIDENT HAKAINDE HICHILEMA SAYS SOME FORMER MINISTERS WHO ARE NOW MAKING NOISE COLLUDED WITH PERMANENT SECRETARIES AS WELL AS OTHER OFFICES TO GIVE EACH OTHER CONTRACTS
