INFRASTRUCTURE and Urban Development Minister Charles Milupi says while the PF may claim to have invested in infrastructure, the UPND inherited a lot of incomplete and stalled projects across the country. Delivering a ministerial statement on the implementation of Public-Private Partnership projects in infrastructure development, Wednesday, Milupi said road sector debt owed to contractors and consultants increased from K945 million in 2011 to K5.5 billion by 2016, and then more than doubled to K12 billion by 2021, when the PF left office. “It is important to highlight the circumstances that have pushed this government to pursue Public-Private Partnerships as a mode of financing critical infrastructure projects. It is in public domain that the previous government drove this country into massive...

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