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Paul Golson

Executive Secretary

‘Local bricklayers need more skills’

By Business Reporte    

LOCAL bricklayers should be given extensive training which meets international standards to enable them compete favourably on the market, National Construction Council (NCC) construction school principal Francis Mwape has said.

Mr Mwape said there was need to raise the profile of local bricklayers to global standards because some foreign companies were importing manpower to do bricklaying in the country.

In an interview at the Agriculture and Commercial Show during NCC annual national bricklayers competition, Mr Mwape urged bricklayers to improve in their work in order to render support to growth in the construction industry.

He noted that failure by bricklayers to finish their work in time slowed down construction work.

And NCC chairperson Francis Ndilila said there was need to develop a strong partnership between the designers and builders.

Dr Ndilila said it was imperative that a monitoring policy was developed on the quality of education which was mutually supportive in providing quality designers and builders at all levels of tertiary education.

And Chrispine Kombe from North-Western Province emerged the best bricklayer and got K2 million.

The second prize went to Munalula Lubasi of Lusaka who got K1.2 million while Mulenga Chipushi of Luapula Province got the third prize as well as K800, 000.

Julius Ngoma from Eastern Province got the forth prize and K500, 000.