The governor of the northern Mozambican province of Niassa, David Malizane, has promised to take to court all contractors who start jobs for the provincial government but then abandon them.Interviewed by the Beira daily paper “Diario de Mocambique”, Malizane said “the money used in these building jobs belongs to the people. So we have to bring offenders to justice”.He said that the Provincial Directorate of Education and Culture has already sent eight cases, involving unfinished schools, to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, and more will follow.“We have to discipline those contractors who do not honour their undertakings with the state”, said Malizane. “Matters are even worse when they abandon the jobs, and hide somewhere, where it is impossible to contact them”.If the contractors were honest, he added, and found that the money budgeted for a particular job was not enough, they could negotiate with the government department involved to readjust the costs. But simply abandoning unfinished jobs “holds up the development of the province”, he said.“We need to verify step by step where the problems are”, Malizane said. “Were there problems in some cases inside the state bodies that hired the contractors? We have to take measures on all sides, because the abandonment of building work cannot continue”.“We shall take over work that is half finished”, he continued, “and then the contractors will have to explain why they interrupted the work”.The new provincial directors of planning and finance, Feliciano Dembele, and of public works, Graciano Artur, have been charged with looking into the matter and reporting their findings to the provincial government. Malizane wanted an exact picture of how serious the problem is, so that appropriate measures can be taken.
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