We need K70m to rehabilitate 446 schools countrywide – Syakalima

EDUCATION Minister Douglas Syakalima says government needs over K70 million to rehabilitate more than 446 schools whose roofs have been blown off, countrywide. Speaking in parliament, Tuesday, Syakalima said someone must be answerable in order to avoid such wasteful expenditure in future. “Generally speaking, there are quite so many countrywide roofs blown off and we are taking all the roofs which were blown off as an emergency. Again, it comes back to the way these contractors were probably doing the works. How is it that you can have more than 446 roofs blown off countrywide in all the schools? Something went wrong somewhere and this will cost government about K70 million. So this is why I think it is the...