MINISTER BASHUNGWA ORDERS THE ARREST OF THE CONTRACTOR BUILDING THE MPIJI CHINI BRIDGE

 


THE MINISTER of Construction, Innocent Bashungwa, has instructed the Kinondoni District Police Commander (OCD), Mohamed Senkondo, to arrest the Project Manager of the China Railway Seventh Group (CRSG), who is carrying out the construction of the Mpiji Chini Bridge (140 meters) along with the connecting road ( Km 2.3), Asked to Start Taking Action for Delaying the Construction of the Bridge and Connecting Road.

 

The order was issued on April 30, 2024 in the Dar Es Salaam Region after the Minister Bashungwa inspected the effects of the rain and the area where the Mpiji Bridge will be built which will connect the Dar Es Salaam Region to the coast and dissatisfaction with the reasons for delaying the preparations to start construction.

 

"We can't continue to flatter each other, this contractor has been a troublemaker in his projects and this is the fifth project, OCD entrusts this contractor to you to explain and give them the contract he signed so that we can start taking action," Bashungwa stressed.

 

In addition, Bashungwa has explained that the CRSG contractor has been a contractor in the implementation of other road projects including Sanzate - Nata in Mara Region, Kibaoni - Mlele Road in Katavi Region, Amani Mahoro - Luanda Road in Ruvuma Region and other projects that he has been given construction work for.

 

Bashungwa has asked the CEO of the China Railway Seventh Group to come to his office and explain that the government will continue to press the contractor to ensure that he brings the machinery and workers needed in the Mpiji Bridge project so that when summer starts construction of this bridge will start construction immediately.

 

And, the Manager of TANROADS Region of Dar Es Salaam, Engineer John Mkumbo has explained that the contract for the construction of the bridge and connecting road was signed on January 30, 2023, and the contractor was handed over the construction site on May 22, 2023 where the project will be implemented for a period of 24 months at a cost Of 21 billion shillings.

 

Engineer Mkumbo has explained that the equipment brought for the implementation of the project is 46 percent of what is required according to the contract with 6 of the 10 experts required by the contract where in general the contractor has made construction preparations for 58 percent.

 

For his part, the Head of Kinondoni District, Saad Mtambule, has explained that the bridge connects the Dar Es Salaam region to the coast through the villages of Maputo and Kiembeni and when it is completed, it will be a great liberator because for a long time citizens have been going around the long way to get in and out of their homes. At Their Work And Even Following Social Services.

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