GOVERNMENT has maintained that it will not cancel the Lusaka-Ndola dual carriageway project and rehabilitation of the Masangano-Fisenge-Luanshya road. Meanwhile, Road Development Agency (RDA) says Macro Ocean Investment Consortium was picked as the preferred concessionaire in a highly transparent manner. In an interview, Tuesday, Infrastructure, Housing and Urban Development Minister Charles Milupi said the PPP model was a novel way of executing the road project without stressing the country’s balance sheet. “So are we going to cancel it? No! Under the circumstances where we have no money, we are an over borrowed state, that state of infrastructure is so bad, this is novel way to do it without stressing the country’s balance sheet. It’s a flagship policy of the new dawn...

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