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Minister of Information, Jappie Mhango has come out fighting that he will not resign as demanded by People’s Party (PP)...
Nice piece of advice to the clueless DPP led government and thankyou for this
I wonder whether Malawian leaders feel ashamed when they enjoy the modern and wide roads during trips abroad having come from a country with tiny and pot-holed road network. Something needs to be done with urgency and Malawi needs a highway revolution-we live in modern times
When the leadership thinks all big projects / developments should be done in his region , and developments should be politicised we shouldnt axcept nice M1 raod soon. M1 from Lumbadzi up to njenda is one lane now , with drum holes on the way. Stadium , paja inapita kwawoko, cancer centre iyi ikutchulidwa za konko not thinking some malawians are in chitipa will need same services and look at the distance now. Sometimes you may think God doesnt exist why allowing Bingu to die and bring back unpatriotic leadership, tribalistic, regionalistic , nepotismists, greedy.
Just a small correction Dr jeke. The M1 road was not constructed 52 years ago. The only part of the M1 that is over 50 years ago is Blantyre Lilongwe via Zomba. The Blantyre-Zalewa Road up to Cikengeni known as Matope road was constructed between 1982-1984. The tarmar road between Lilongwe and Mzimba was constructed in 1974, Mzimba to Mzuzu via Chikangawa was in 1983 same as Mzuzu to Karonga. Mind you,Mzimba- Chikangawa-Mzuzu is not part of M1. The real M1 is Mzimba-Kafukule-Ekwendeni road. Incidentally, the M1 is not fully tarred up today. So the M1 road is actually less… Read more »
Money for roads, like for so much else, is pocketed because of a lack of accountability. That’s why it is said so often, after 52 years, Malawi is not developing.
For a country with Malawi’a GDP, our M1 highway is fairly well-maintained. What we are lacking in our road infrastructure is maintainence of our main CBD roads. Both in Lilongwe and Blantyre, the maintenance of the roads in the Central Business and industrial Disticts is appalling. The main road arteries are generally maintained somewhat, but almost all of the feeder roads are full of cracks and potholes. Especially at inter-sections, there is precious little room for cars to turn. What makes it worse is people like to park right at the inter-section! As for the state of our roads in… Read more »
You have told it as it is and as it should
For sure Jacob Zuma said this, but to see this called M1 road is not like national road. But who to blame? The ministry of transport and public works is filled with engineers who don’t think like. In South Africa the roads are reconstruct themselve using TOLL GATE fund why can’t we make these tollgate to correct money for our road. In Zimbabwe the tollgate are working now in Mozambique anytime they will be work already constructed. Zuka Malawi
You have observed correctly and your observations apply to the whole road network in Malawi. Tell me; 1. Why should you go via Karonga when you are travelling to Chitipa from Mzuzu, when a good short cut from Rumphi via Nyika is feasible? 2. Why should you go via Mzuzu when travelling to Mzimba or Kasungu from Kande in Nkhata Bay when a road network to Mzimba through Luwawa in the Viphya plantations is feasible? 3. Tell me why should you go via Salima from Dwambazi in Nkhota Kota to Kasungu when a good road network can be constructed connecting… Read more »
My apologies, I meant to say Dr Qeko Jele and I wrote Jeko. Also I came up with my own word ‘deteriorisation’ instead of deterioration. But who can blame me on my second mistake – with the current state of things, deterioration does not cut it – ‘deteriorisation’ seems to be better suited! LOL.
I remember while in college at Chirunga we used to say describing something as ‘garbage’ is better than saying it is ‘ga-ra-be-ji’! Catch the drift?
Any way my apologies to Dr Jele once again.