ESP Project Pends As Companies Row Over P1.3m

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.