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Nyau Thing
Nyau Thing
6 years ago

The author of this article must be Alfonso Chikuni the CEO of Lilongwe Water Board or Tawonga Botolo Simbi’s spokesboy!

This is a shallow article devoid of all the relevant facts on why people are crying blue murder at how the contract is being handled!

rose
rose
6 years ago

A Malawi tulo busy gossiping we don’t support each other. Politics will never help us at all………….!

3rd eye
3rd eye
6 years ago

The author is making some good points here and there but the problem is that he/she is very emotional. But overall I don’t agree with the Author. First of all two wrongs do not make a right. The fact that some foreigners are allowed to do some projects without EIA does not make it right to allow SIMBI (I like the name as well) project to go ahead without EIA. Secondly, I hope the author understands what EIA means, because if he/she doesn’t then it’s a total mistake that you even thought of writing this article. Thirdly, what has Zambia’s… Read more »

nkhalamu
nkhalamu
6 years ago

which bozwell makaranga r u,I knew someone we used to live together in zingwangwa

Inu
Inu
6 years ago

Before anybody comments, where are we with the Inland port project in Nsanje? This was much touted to be the one that would transform Malawi. Seven years down the line, all the money that was put into it down the drain. What was the problem? No feasibility study taken. If this was done, it would have revealed all the issues that project would face plus it would indicate whether the project made sense or not. Now we are back to square one again. How can you invest in a 500 million USD project without a feasibility study? What can of… Read more »

kalima
kalima
6 years ago

Great article …. Simbi must be supported .

Bozwell Makaranga
Bozwell Makaranga
6 years ago

The screams about the water ferrying project are about the cost involved. It is regrettable that this important fact is now intertwined with jealousy and tribalism. The cost of this project is unbelievably high. The cost of a road which involves deep and wide trenches, fills, tarmac, embankment strenthenings and loose chippings costs about $1,000,000 per square metre (maximum). A trench carrying a water pipe from Salima to Lilongwe will only be a few metres wide and deep and should cost no more that $350,000 / square metree maximum. Therefore over a distance of 130 kilometres from Salima to Lilongwe,… Read more »

Zanyanya
6 years ago

Well put. A DPP angowona kuti sasolorapo yet they awarded a contract. So now you are coming behind Kalekeni Kaphare kenako Malawi Law Society (MLS) eeeeeh koma a Malawi. Naye mumufunseso Mota Angil and the Chinese about the same. You have forgotten that the issue of tapping water from lake Malawi has been discussed heavily in Parliament for the past 15 year and today you are saying its too expensive. Who told you that good things are cheap? Kupusa a Malawi!!!

Chakhalira
Chakhalira
6 years ago

Firstly I would like to sincerely congratulate Rudo Tariro – Nyasa Times. You seem to be well informed of what is happening in Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia. Great!! But , allow me to single out The Simbi Phiri Project of taking water from the Lake to a tap at Kauma. To those of us that have been in Lilongwe from 1987 to date, this is NOT new project to us. H.E. Ngwazi Dr. Kamuzu Banda, thought of this project long time ago. But we were told a certain Indian told our Ngwazi that that was NOT as necessary at that… Read more »

Madubeko
Madubeko
6 years ago

i am in total agreement, we Malawian don’t like to see a fellow Malawian progressing but foreigners, kodi ndichifukwa cha chiyambi? let able minded Malawians flourish, when a local has made progress we call him wa satanic or a murderer or wakuba uyu, come on guys !! yes there are some things which we must question but not everything. this is our country wholly own by us Malawians let us learn to hold hands and uplift each other, tiyeni tisiye kugona, busy making babies while our friends are busy doing business tiyeni tidzuke we cannot be spectators in our own… Read more »

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