{"id":42549,"date":"2023-03-11T22:49:46","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T22:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/poor-state-of-nancholi-road-irks-residents"},"modified":"2023-03-11T23:16:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T23:16:48","slug":"poor-state-of-nancholi-road-irks-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/poor-state-of-nancholi-road-irks-residents","title":{"rendered":"Poor state of Nancholi Road irks residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>Some residents of Manase and Nancholi areas in Malawi\u2019s Blantyre City have expressed concern over the dilapidated state of Nancholi Road, which they say is causing problems for users.<\/p>\n<p>One of the residents who operates a minibus, Patrick Batimeyo, said many politicians have been promising to rehabilitate the road during campaigns but fail to fulfill their promises once voted in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are tired of these failed promises. Other areas have better roads but we are neglected. Why are we being excluded? Where did we go wrong?,\u201d Batimeyo sadly questioned.<\/p>\n<p>When asked to comment on the matter, Member of Parliament for Blantyre City South Noel Lipipa, said the road requires approximately K2 billion to be rehabilitated, adding that it is Blantyre City Council\u2019s responsibility to facilitate the exercise.<\/p>\n<p>In response, Spokesperson for Blantyre City Council Deborah Elliot said the council is currently waiting for funding from government for the exercise to commence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\">Malawi<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. Some residents of Manase and Nancholi areas in Malawi\u2019s Blantyre City have expressed concern over the dilapidated state of Nancholi Road, which they say is causing problems for users. One of the residents who operates a minibus, Patrick Batimeyo, said many politicians have been promising to rehabilitate the road during campaigns but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":42547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[233,371,611,884,243,234,883],"class_list":["post-42549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-blantyre","tag-construction","tag-development","tag-malawi","tag-roads"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Poor state of Nancholi Road irks residents - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Some residents of Manase and Nancholi areas in Malawi\u2019s Blantyre City have expressed concern over the dilapidated state ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/poor-state-of-nancholi-road-irks-residents\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Poor state of Nancholi Road irks residents\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Some residents of Manase and Nancholi areas in Malawi\u2019s Blantyre City have expressed concern over the dilapidated state ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/poor-state-of-nancholi-road-irks-residents\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Malawi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-03-11T22:49:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-03-11T23:16:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/03\/postQueueImg_1678562421.19.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"591\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/poor-state-of-nancholi-road-irks-residents#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/poor-state-of-nancholi-road-irks-residents\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Poor state of Nancholi Road irks residents\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-03-11T22:49:46+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-03-11T23:16:48+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/poor-state-of-nancholi-road-irks-residents\"},\"wordCount\":172,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/poor-state-of-nancholi-road-irks-residents#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/03\/postQueueImg_1678562421.19.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"blantyre\",\"Construction\",\"Development\",\"Malawi\",\"Roads\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/poor-state-of-nancholi-road-irks-residents#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/poor-state-of-nancholi-road-irks-residents\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/poor-state-of-nancholi-road-irks-residents\",\"name\":\"Poor state of Nancholi Road irks residents - 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