ESP Project Pends As Companies Row Over P1.3m

The project manager was shocked when minister Prince Maele paid a suprise visit to the site
The project manager was shocked when minister Prince Maele paid a suprise visit to the site

The future of a project to connect water to Seuwane Industrial Site in Otse is uncertain after a fallout between the contractor and consulting engineers.

The two companies are at loggerheads over a P1,149,487.50 payment pending since April 2017. The P23 million project financed under Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP), commenced last August and a dispute ensued early this year when the two companies could not agree on the arrangement of the payment.

At the centre of the dispute is whether the client, Ministry of Land Management, Water and Sanitation Services should directly pay the contractor, Tshepho Tile (Pty) Ltd for the works done, an arrangement that was applied in a previous payment.

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