GOVERNANCE Activist Rueben Lifuka has questioned why the PF government paid $30 million to China Jiangxi for the construction of the Lusaka-Ndola dual carriageway when it had cancelled the financing agreement. And Lifuka says the UPND government needs to undertake a thorough audit of all infrastructure projects from 2011 to 2021. Yesterday, former housing and infrastructure development minister Vincent Mwale confirmed that works on the Lusaka-Ndola dual carriageway were not executed despite making a $30 million payment as counterpart funding to China Jiangxi because government wanted to change the mode of the contract to a Public Private Partnership. And in a response to a press query, Tuesday, Lifuka observed that the Lusaka-Ndola dual carriageway had been controversial from its inception....

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