{"id":44538,"date":"2023-04-12T09:23:36","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T09:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/?p=44538"},"modified":"2023-04-12T00:06:56","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T00:06:56","slug":"chiefs-want-to-meet-chakwera-over-delayed-road-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chiefs-want-to-meet-chakwera-over-delayed-road-project","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs want to meet Chakwera over delayed road project"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>Traditional Chiefs along Lirangwe via Chingale Machinga road namely Lundu, Mlumbe, Nkapita and Nkula plan to meet President Lazarus Chakwera to present their concern over delayed Lirangwe-Chingale-Machinga road which has been neglected for 17 years.<\/p>\n

The four chiefs led by Senior Chief Mlumbe disclosed their intention to meet Chakwera in Zomba during a meeting which was organised by Center for Social Concern to discuss the road project which has taken almost 17 years without completion by different parties in power.<\/p>\n

Speaking during the interface meeting,, Senior Chief Mlumbe said that chiefs along the road have lost patience with the delay. \u201cWe therefore want to meet the president to discuss the road which many administrations have failed to complete,\u201d added Mlumbe.<\/p>\n

He noted that the Joyce Banda and Peter Mutharika administrations put foundation stone on the road project but nothing materialised to the expectation of the citizens. Senior Chief Mlumbe further observed that all machinery that was brought to construct the road was withdrawn from the project.<\/p>\n

\u201cTwo foundation stones were laid by two different leaders just to fool people along the road and we\u2019ve come to realise that politicians turn Lirangwe Chingale Machinga area as campaign zone,\u201d Senior Chief Mlumbe added<\/p>\n

He also said people along the road face mobility problems due to the bad road condition citing education, agriculture and trade as some of the sectors affected.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople have failed to buy fertiliser for the 2022\/2023 farming season because trucks failed to reach their destinations to deliver fertiliser,\u201d Senior Chief Mlumbe said, adding that many people also face hunger because they fail to buy maize.<\/p>\n

Traditional Authority Nkula of Machinga said chiefs wanted to meet president Chakwera because the current government keep on saying that financial resources for the are there.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hear parliament approving budget that allocate such resources but we get surprised that up to now nothing has taken shape,\u201d Traditional Authority Nkula added.<\/p>\n

He also observed that the Lirangwe Zomba Machinga has turned into campaign thing at the expense of people\u2019s socio-economic livelihood. Center for Social Concern Programmes Officer, Bernard Mphepo, said the organisation\u2019s role is to mobilise citizens to hold their own government accountable.<\/p>\n

He expressed concern over the plight of people along the Lirangwe Chingale Machinga road over the delayed road project. \u201d People have been taken for granted for a long time and Center for Social Concern has come in to do advocacy on governance issues and provide capacity for social justice,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Mphepo said often times president Chakwera talk of the Lirangwe Chingale Machinga road and has been sending ministers to tour the road in question. \u201cI should believe this is total politics,\u201d he added. The four chiefs have agreed to meet the state president this month as Parliament is discussing the national budget.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Malawi<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Malawi. Traditional Chiefs along Lirangwe via Chingale Machinga road namely Lundu, Mlumbe, Nkapita and Nkula plan to meet President Lazarus Chakwera to present their concern over delayed Lirangwe-Chingale-Machinga road which has been neglected for 17 years. The four chiefs led by Senior Chief Mlumbe disclosed their intention to meet Chakwera in Zomba during […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":44537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12],"tags":[233,371,884,306,234,883],"class_list":["post-44538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-construction","tag-lazarus-chakwera","tag-malawi","tag-roads"],"yoast_head":"\nChiefs want to meet Chakwera over delayed road project - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Traditional Chiefs along Lirangwe via Chingale Machinga road namely Lundu, Mlumbe, Nkapita and Nkula plan to meet Presid ...\" \/>\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\/chiefs-want-to-meet-chakwera-over-delayed-road-project\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chiefs want to meet Chakwera over delayed road project\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Traditional Chiefs along Lirangwe via Chingale Machinga road namely Lundu, Mlumbe, Nkapita and Nkula plan to meet Presid ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chiefs-want-to-meet-chakwera-over-delayed-road-project\" \/>\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=\"2023-04-12T09:23:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/04\/postQueueImg_1681237942.44.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"750\" \/>\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=\"2 minutes\" \/>\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\/chiefs-want-to-meet-chakwera-over-delayed-road-project#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chiefs-want-to-meet-chakwera-over-delayed-road-project\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Chiefs want to meet Chakwera over delayed road project\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-04-12T09:23:36+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chiefs-want-to-meet-chakwera-over-delayed-road-project\"},\"wordCount\":483,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chiefs-want-to-meet-chakwera-over-delayed-road-project#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/04\/postQueueImg_1681237942.44.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"Construction\",\"Lazarus Chakwera\",\"Malawi\",\"Roads\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chiefs-want-to-meet-chakwera-over-delayed-road-project#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chiefs-want-to-meet-chakwera-over-delayed-road-project\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chiefs-want-to-meet-chakwera-over-delayed-road-project\",\"name\":\"Chiefs want to meet Chakwera over delayed road project - Malawi\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chiefs-want-to-meet-chakwera-over-delayed-road-project#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chiefs-want-to-meet-chakwera-over-delayed-road-project#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/04\/postQueueImg_1681237942.44.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-04-12T09:23:36+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Traditional Chiefs along Lirangwe via Chingale Machinga road namely Lundu, Mlumbe, Nkapita and Nkula plan to meet Presid ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chiefs-want-to-meet-chakwera-over-delayed-road-project#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chiefs-want-to-meet-chakwera-over-delayed-road-project\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chiefs-want-to-meet-chakwera-over-delayed-road-project#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/04\/postQueueImg_1681237942.44.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/04\/postQueueImg_1681237942.44.jpg\",\"width\":750,\"height\":400,\"caption\":\"Chiefs want to meet Chakwera over delayed road project\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chiefs-want-to-meet-chakwera-over-delayed-road-project#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Chiefs want to meet Chakwera over delayed road project\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/\",\"name\":\"Malawi\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Chiefs want to meet Chakwera over delayed road project - Malawi","description":"Traditional Chiefs along Lirangwe via Chingale Machinga road namely Lundu, Mlumbe, Nkapita and Nkula plan to meet Presid ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chiefs-want-to-meet-chakwera-over-delayed-road-project","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Chiefs want to meet Chakwera over delayed road project","og_description":"Traditional Chiefs along Lirangwe via Chingale Machinga road namely Lundu, Mlumbe, Nkapita and Nkula plan to meet Presid ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chiefs-want-to-meet-chakwera-over-delayed-road-project","og_site_name":"Malawi","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2023-04-12T09:23:36+00:00","og_image":[{"width":750,"height":400,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/04\/postQueueImg_1681237942.44.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chiefs-want-to-meet-chakwera-over-delayed-road-project#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chiefs-want-to-meet-chakwera-over-delayed-road-project"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Chiefs want to meet Chakwera over delayed road project","datePublished":"2023-04-12T09:23:36+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chiefs-want-to-meet-chakwera-over-delayed-road-project"},"wordCount":483,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chiefs-want-to-meet-chakwera-over-delayed-road-project#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/04\/postQueueImg_1681237942.44.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Malawi","Construction","Lazarus Chakwera","Malawi","Roads"],"articleSection":["all news","head lines","policy"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chiefs-want-to-meet-chakwera-over-delayed-road-project#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chiefs-want-to-meet-chakwera-over-delayed-road-project","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chiefs-want-to-meet-chakwera-over-delayed-road-project","name":"Chiefs want to meet Chakwera over delayed road project - Malawi","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chiefs-want-to-meet-chakwera-over-delayed-road-project#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chiefs-want-to-meet-chakwera-over-delayed-road-project#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/04\/postQueueImg_1681237942.44.jpg","datePublished":"2023-04-12T09:23:36+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Traditional Chiefs along Lirangwe via Chingale Machinga road namely Lundu, Mlumbe, Nkapita and Nkula plan to meet Presid ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chiefs-want-to-meet-chakwera-over-delayed-road-project#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chiefs-want-to-meet-chakwera-over-delayed-road-project"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chiefs-want-to-meet-chakwera-over-delayed-road-project#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/04\/postQueueImg_1681237942.44.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/04\/postQueueImg_1681237942.44.jpg","width":750,"height":400,"caption":"Chiefs want to meet Chakwera over delayed road project"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chiefs-want-to-meet-chakwera-over-delayed-road-project#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Chiefs want to meet Chakwera over delayed road project"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/","name":"Malawi","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}