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Africa-Press<\/a> – Zambia<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Residents at Machinjiri in Blantyre have accused construction company Mota Engil of damaging their houses through the company\u2019s quarry mining activities.
\nA woman identified as Catherine Ntandika has been posting on Facebook for several months about the damage which she says has been caused by quarry mining.According to Ntandika, Mota Engil has been breaking up rocks using heavy explosives for years in the area to mine quarry which the company uses for construction works.
\nThis has left houses in the area with huge cracks and homeowners fear their houses could collapse at any time.
\n\u201cWe struggled to build our houses and we were living comfortably before Mota Engil came to operate near our settlement in area 10 Machinjiri, Blantyre.
\n\u201cThe houses have now been left in a state that may they at any time collapse and some have already collapsed. All the supporting beams have been weakened and the walls separated and dangerous cracks have developed. Mota Engil have been boasting at several occasions that they are Authorized to break the houses and to abuse Malawians in any way they can. We have cried out, May the President intervene and come to our rescue,\u201d she wrote in one post.
\nShe also claimed that a gravel road which is one of the feeder roads in Machinjiri has been damaged because of the company\u2019s activities and the chemicals being used at the mine have affected communities around the site.
\n\u201cThe victims are numerous. My plea to authorities is to seriously look into this issue. Also, Mota Engil uses cheap and unskilled personnel to conduct this task,\u201d said Ntandika.In another post she said: \u201cEvery morning these cracks welcome me and my heart aches and misses a beat. Living in such environment causes worry and many other nasty experiences.\u201d
\nAccording to a research paper on Safety Culture at Njuli Quarry mine published in 2020, high risk mining operations such as drilling, blasting, loading, hauling and processing of rock aggregates are conducted at the mine and these could affect residents of surrounding communities.
\nMota Engil set up offices in Malawi in the 1990s and over the years the company has been engaged for major constructions projects such as Nsanje Port, roads and hydropower stations. It also has mining licences but the materials extracted are for construction purposes only.
\nThe company\u2019s spokesperson Thomas Chafunya said the Machinjiri issue is currently in court and they are waiting for hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zambia. Residents at Machinjiri in Blantyre have accused construction company Mota Engil of damaging their houses through the company\u2019s quarry mining activities. A woman identified as Catherine Ntandika has been posting on Facebook for several months about the damage which she says has been caused by quarry mining.According to Ntandika, Mota Engil has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":1115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,9,16],"tags":[234,235,369,368,233],"class_list":["post-1116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-miscellaneous","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zambia","tag-damaging-houses","tag-mota","tag-zambia"],"yoast_head":"\nMota Engil accused of damaging houses in Blantyre - Zambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Residents at Machinjiri in Blantyre have accused construction company Mota Engil of damaging their houses through the co ...\" \/>\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\/zambia\/all-news\/mota-engil-accused-of-damaging-houses-in-blantyre\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mota Engil accused of damaging houses in Blantyre\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Residents at Machinjiri in Blantyre have accused construction company Mota Engil of damaging their houses through the co ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/mota-engil-accused-of-damaging-houses-in-blantyre\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Zambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-06-20T13:14:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2021\/06\/img-60cf3defca2a4.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"429\" \/>\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\/zambia\/all-news\/mota-engil-accused-of-damaging-houses-in-blantyre#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/mota-engil-accused-of-damaging-houses-in-blantyre\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Mota Engil accused of damaging houses in Blantyre\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-06-20T13:14:27+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/mota-engil-accused-of-damaging-houses-in-blantyre\"},\"wordCount\":416,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/mota-engil-accused-of-damaging-houses-in-blantyre#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2021\/06\/img-60cf3defca2a4.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Zambia\",\"damaging houses\",\"mota\",\"Zambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"miscellaneous\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/mota-engil-accused-of-damaging-houses-in-blantyre#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/mota-engil-accused-of-damaging-houses-in-blantyre\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/mota-engil-accused-of-damaging-houses-in-blantyre\",\"name\":\"Mota Engil accused of damaging houses in Blantyre - 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