GOVT CUTS TIES WITH E120M PROJECT CONTRACTOR

BUHLENI – Government has since dismissed the contractor of the stalled construction of the E120 million Buhleni Police Station.

Khula Construction, a Mbabane- based company, has been ordered to vacate the construction site with immediate effect.
The termination letter was written by project managers, for the project, Ngwenya Wonfor.

It was dated January 17, 2017.
The project managers wrote the letter on behalf of Makhosini Mndawe, Principal Secretary (PS) in  the Ministry of Public Works and Transport. According to the letter, the termination of the contract follows Khula Construction’s failure to complete and deliver the project on time.

 “You have remained in default, relative to the matters defined in the above notice in that, you have failed to proceed with the works with due skills, diligence, regularity and expedition skills,” reads the letter in part. The company was then ordered to immediately vacate the site.

“You are herewith instructed not to remove anything that is, plant and material, on the site until a record of same is prepared on January 20, 2017.”
In an interview, PS Mndawe confirmed that the contractor had been removed from the project.
He said the termination of the contract was due to some inefficiencies of the company that were noted on the project.
The PS said government was still in discussions with the company over the same issue.

According to sources close to the matter, government is already engaged in the process of engaging another company to complete the project.
The source said the Public Works Ministry appeared before the Tender Board on the same issue on Monday.
“A new contractor would be on site very soon and we anticipate that the project would be delivered on time,” he said.

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