We’ll cancel exorbitantly priced road contracts – Milupi

INFRASTRUCTURE, Housing, and Urban Development Minister Charles Milupi says government will cancel exorbitantly priced road contracts without increasing liabilities and renegotiate those where such a route is possible. In an interview, Milupi said government had engaged contractors who were relooking a number of projects with inflated prices. “We had cultivated [a] culture in this country starting from the contractors, engineers, consultants [of] accepting exorbitantly high prices when constructing these roads. That is no longer going to be accepted. With roads that have already been put on the programme where we can cancel the contract without increasing the liability of the country, we shall do that. Where we are able to renegotiate, we shall do that,” Milupi said. “On a number...