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Chipata Council orders Sable Construction to re-do township roads

Chipata Council orders Sable Construction to re-do township roads
By Christopher Miti in Chipata
Thu 24 June 2010, 17:10 CAT

CHIPATA Municipal council has ordered Sable Construction Company to re-do tarring works on some township roads that were shoddily constructed. But Eastern Province MMD chairperson Kennedy Zulu said Sable might be following the specifications in the bill of quantity.

Director of engineering Andrew Zulu said Sable was directed to re-do a 500 meter stretch of the Nabvutika Road in Chipata. He said the company was also directed to improve the quality of the tarmac on a 400 meter stretch between Chipata Day Secondary School turn off and Kapata market.

Zulu said some stretches like the one on the Nabvutika Road developed potholes even before the tarring works were completed.

He said Sable Company would re-do the work at its own cost adding that this was what happened when a client was not happy with the works done.

Zulu explained that the company was expected to put another layer to make the tarmac stronger and stable.

And commenting on the shoddy works done by Sable, Eastern Province MMD chairman Zulu said people should not just condemn the company before looking at the bill of quantity.

“The best thing is to go to the Council and look at the bill of quantity because maybe they (Sable) is following the specifications according to the bill of quantity because I am a contractor myself, there are times whereby in the bill of quantity they have undervalued a particular scope of scope of work,” he said.

Zulu, however, said he was impressed with Sable’s performance on the Chipata-Mfuwe road which started last December.

There have been a lot of concerns on the performance of Sable on Chipata township roads.

Some roads that had already been done were developing cracks within a short period of time.

Others attributed Sable’s poor performance in some roads to the large number of contracts that the company had been awarded.

Labels: CHIPATA, CHIPATA MUNICIPAL COUNCIL, ROADS, SABLE CONTRACTORS

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