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"content": "Yes, Hon. Kajwang’ then Hon. Makali."
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"content": " Hon. Speaker, permit me to ride on this. This is the gateway to my rural home. If you come from Luanda, it is the only direct way through Uyoma in Rarieda Constituency, and as you get to Mbita through the ferry. So, it is a very important road which I am interested in. I listened to the Cabinet Secretary and I am sure that he is working on it. But on this concept of assignment, let us now deal with the issue of principal first. Because as you hear, he is saying that there is a contractor who was on that road, then there was a subcontract to which it was assigned. We have had problems with this concept of assignment."
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"content": "An assignment is not a subcontract."
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"content": " Well, it is not, but they understand it in the Ministry of Roads and Transport as a subcontract. It is a contract. Hon. Speaker, the question I am saying that these people who benefit from assignments, who are themselves independent contractors, and the Ministry approves that transaction between the principal contractor and the other, is where the problem is. Because the first person has billed that bill 1 is the most substantial part of the funds which would go into that road. When this other person to whom it is assigned takes the contract, the person basically takes the contract with the terms and conditions, but there is no money with which the whole thing can be done. So, this is why this second person definitely is not able to complete the road. Could the Cabinet Secretary consider terminating the contract? In terms of principal, when the first contractor failed, Bishan Singh should have terminated that contract and then sought for a new contract in all its terms and conditions."
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"content": "So, are you challenging the validity of the assignment or the quality of the assignment?"
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"content": " I am saying that the question in principle is the problem in finishing this road."
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"content": "Okay."
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"content": " Could the Cabinet Secretary consider that instead of going this assignment principal, terminate a contract and then re-advertise it and get new people under the terms and conditions that the Ministry would approve? Thank you."
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"content": "Hon. Kajwang’, if the Members are interested in the road being completed quickly, is an assignment faster than a re-tendering? This is because a re-tendering will take another one year. An assignment is just a legal instrument, which as a good lawyer you know. But anyway, Hon. Makali."
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