Ngilu warns contractors over delays

Contractors taking long to complete housing projects will be blacklisted, Housing Secretary Charity Ngilu said on Wednesday.

Mrs Ngilu also warned contractors whose performance is wanting that they would be banned from government contracts.

Speaking during the hand-over of civil servants’ houses in Kileleshwa, Nairobi, she said the Makueni Road civil servants’ housing project had taken long to be completed, and was initially done poorly by the first contractor.

Deliver warning

This prompted her to deliver the warning that may see several contractors blacklisted for failure to complete projects on time.

The project that started in August 2008 took approximately five years to be completed. The first contract was terminated due to poor and wanting performance, according to Mrs Ngilu.

The second contractor took over last year May. The project is the second to be handed over to the civil servants in as many months and comprises 18 four-bedroom flats with four three-bedroom upper floor flats.

The Civil Servants Housing Scheme has so far benefited 3,000 government workers.