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Govt revokes 4 contracts By Faraja Jube, Dodoma

The Government has revokes contracts of four road constructors.

Deputy Infrastructure Development minister Hezekiah Chibulunje told Parliament in Dodoma yesterday that the contracts were terminated because the contractors failed to deliver.

Mr Chibulunje named the companies as the China State Construction Engineering Corporation, Prismo Universal Italiano S.P.A and Badri East Africa Enterprises Limited JV, Wesons Tanzania Limited and Shabridin and Company Limited.

He said the Tanzania Roads Agency had blacklisted the companies to so that they would not get new contracts in the country.

He said the Government took action against the China State Construction Engineering Corporation Limited on February 2008 after it failed to construct the 154km Kagoma-Lusahunga road.

Mr Chibulunje said on March 28, the Government scrapped its contracts with Prismo Universal Italiano SPA and Badri East Africa Enterprises Limited JV.

The two firms had been contracted to build sections of the Marangu-Rombo Mkuu road and the Kilacha-Mwika road.

He said the Government was in the process of terminating its contracts with Wesons Tanzania Limited and Shabridin and Company Limited after they failed to complete the construction of a road to connect Babati-Simanjiro and Kiteto on time.

“Shabridin and Company Limited which was tasked to construct the 45km Manganga-Mandawa road had its contract terminated in September,” he noted.

Responding to a question by Babati Urban MP Omar Kwaangw (CCM), Mr Chibulunje said the Government had previously warned, penalised before it terminated the contracts with the contractors for failure to fulfill their contractual obligations.

(thecitizen)

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