Responding to comments made by Members of Parliament (MPs), Local Government Minister, Margaret Nasha said that she intends to curb incidents where sub-contractors are given a raw deal by their main contractors. She said that in future they want to include a clause in contracts, which will give clients, especially government, access to agreements between sub contractors and the main ones. With this government will simply pay the sub-contractor for the job done.
Nasha also said government wants to monitor foreigners employed in Local Government who at the end of their contracts establish companies, which are later favoured in the awarding of government projects. She said that such employees would be ordered to go back to their countries of origin where they should make fresh applications for registration of their companies. "We are working with the Ministry of Labour and Home Affairs on that," she told the House. The minister lamented shortage of qualified architects, engineers, quantity surveyors, and other technical skills in the field of buildings and engineering.
