{"id":44054,"date":"2023-04-03T21:13:36","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T21:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/concerned-citizens-petition-parliament-over-poor-road"},"modified":"2023-04-03T22:31:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T22:31:15","slug":"concerned-citizens-petition-parliament-over-poor-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/concerned-citizens-petition-parliament-over-poor-road","title":{"rendered":"Concerned citizens petition Parliament over poor road"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>Concerned citizen stormed Parliament to deliver their petition on the status of Nkando \u2013 Mulomba Bwanaisa road. In the petition, the citizens say they are concerned with the status of the road because it is one of the most strategic roads as it connects to the main roads of Phalombe\u2013Chitakale and Mulanje\u2013Limbe (Robert Mugabe highway).<\/p>\n

In the petition, it is indicated that citizens have decided to approach Parliament for they have tried several efforts in seeing the road upgraded through their respective Parliamentarians.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have been requesting our Members of Parliament to ask government to construct a tarmac road on this road, but instead the road is always graded every year, due to frequent grading the road has sunk down yet the area is flat with clay soil and swampy in the rainy season making it impassable,\u201d reads the petitioning.<\/p>\n

On economic front, they have indicated that this is a challenge to the farmers and business operators who use longer routes to get to Blantyre to buy or sale their merchandises.<\/p>\n

School children and teachers have also been affected since they are unable to go to school during the rainy season as the road becomes impassable hence affecting the quality of education in the area.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost teachers who are posted to schools along this road turn down the postings and as if that is not enough patients lose their lives as they cannot access health services at the health centres at the right time,\u201d reads the petition.<\/p>\n

The petitioners say this is saddening because this is happening despite Members of Parliament for, Mulanje west, Mulanje North and Phalombe South constituencies, where this road is passing through, requesting for a tarmac road and despite funds for the road being allocated in 2019\u20132020 budget.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour petitioners respectfully and gracefully request that the honourable assembly assist us in asking the Minister of Transport and Public Works to construct a tarmac road on Nkando \u2013 Mulomba Bwanaisa Road in the coming 2023 \u2013 2024 budget,\u201d reads the petition in our possession.<\/p>\n

The road in question starts from Nkando through Mulomba to Bwanaisa which is under National Roads Authority number T413 approximately 52 kilometers. It serves about 200, 000 people from the following TAs, Mkhumba, Kaledzera, Nkanda and Juma, most of which are farmers and business people.<\/p>\n

In a related development, residents from Namame at Manje in Blantyre this morning thronged Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) Power station offices at Ginnery Corner in Blantyre demanding restoration of electricity supply.<\/p>\n

The residents who marched from their area to the offices say their transformer developed a fault in October 2022 leading to intermittent power supply until it exploded on January 6, 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are not leaving this place without a new transformer,\u201d said one of the residents Lucy Lamusi. The residents, some with mud on their faces as a sign of sadness, were chanting songs expressing their frustration.<\/p>\n

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