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Mozambique: Niassa Contractors to Lose Their Licences
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Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique (Maputo)
9 January 2008
Posted to the web 9 January 2008
Maputo
A fifth of all the building contractors in the northern Mozambican province of Niassa are to lose their licences, because of poor performance and signs of corruption, reports the Beira daily paper "Diario de Mocambique".
According to the paper, Niassa provincial governor Arnaldo Bimbe held a meeting with some of the province's contractors, at which he announced that 21 of the 108 contractors in Niassa would lose their licences
He said that in some cases this was because the contractors failed to comply with the terms of building contracts. But in other cases there had been "unclear relationships" between the companies and staff of their clients (usually government departments), which Bimbe interpreted as possible corrupt.
Bimbe said that although the provincial government wanted to stimulate the creation and growth of many more building companies, the harsh fact was that the existing companies had been unable to consolidate their technical capacity.
"As a government we would like to encourage the creation of joint venture type partnerships", said Bimbe, "in order to create synergies and capacity such that the companies can respond flexibly to contractual clauses, and to the demands of their licences, which are not being respected by the contractors".
This approach, he added would provide qualitative and quantitative growth in the construction sector.
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He praised those contractors who work honestly and respect their contracts - but also pointed to buildings so badly thrown together that they begin to leak as soon as they are rained upon, or where shoddy construction allows the first high wind to strip off their roofs.
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