REPORTS that some contractors are delivering desks contracted through the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) at night so as to escape quality checks make sad reading.If anything, the practice, if it is indeed happening defeats the whole purpose of trying to empower communities at local level by creating job opportunities within the communities.The trend might also work against the local contractors, particularly cooperatives as they would not be deemed as trustworthy deserving contracts.It has emerged in Kitwe that some organisations awarded contracts to supply desks are supplying sub-standards desks which they are delivering to schools in the night without the knowledge of the office of the Member of Parliament councillors and other stakeholders The suppliers of the desks are allegedly delivering the desks to schools in the evening to caretakers who cannot question the quality of desks who would later report to the head teacher about the delivery.In cases where the head teacher of the school is […]
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