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MOPAO
MOPAO
5 years ago

THERE IS TOO MUCH CORRUPTION ON OUR ROADS IF YOU DONT KNOW,EMULATE FROM WHAT OUR FRIENDS FROM ANT CORRUPTION BODY FROM KENYA DID ON THEIR ROADS,& AM SURE IF THAT SYSTEM HAPPENS IN MALAWI ,BELIEVE YOU ME ROADS ACCIDENTS ARE GOING TO BE REDUCED

Alamu Pumani Mwakula kuba

Our roads are not safe at all mbuzi inu. Just take a look at Lilongwe Kasungu road. The road is just too narrow and immediately after the road you will find a deep galley. You miss the road you end up mchingalande. How can trucks pass each other. There are so many blind spots. Besides unsafe acts by road users we have unsafe conditions. The police stand on the roads just to make money. Do you know how rich the people working for the Road Traffic are? Do you know how rich the white capped police officers are as compared… Read more »

Achiswe
5 years ago

These statistics are absolutely shocking. Because there is so little traffic on Malawi’s roads, drivers think they can just speed along and overtake anything that appears in front of them. I wonder how many drivers have actually passed their driving test; or did they simply bribe the examiner to give them a pass. Certainly a concerted national campaign is needed to raise the awareness of drivers to the dangers of speeding and looking at their cell phones while at the wheel. This loss of life must not be allowed to continue.

Chilungamo
Chilungamo
5 years ago
Reply to  Achiswe

This translates the risk of dying into 8 in 10,000 per year on Malawian roads. This is very high. Hon Dausi should provide the nation where do fatalities mostly occur. That’s what is helpful, not just rhetoric.
In most countries most fatalities occur in city streets because of drink& drive. In Malawi the proportion is obviously higher in our so-called national roads (M1). Why? Because of poor state of our roads. The traffic directorate should be able to provide such relevant info to politicians.
Look at Lumbazi-Mponela-Chinkhoma-Kasungu road. Father Mtumbuka would rightly call it a DISASTER!

Chemjambe
Chemjambe
5 years ago

Also look into most of the roads in the country, their conditions also contributes to some if not many accidents

Mlakaviwa
Mlakaviwa
5 years ago

Traffic Police and Road examiners are main cause of all these

Kaitano
Kaitano
5 years ago

If 4000 people died in this 4 years of your luring as DPP in Government, how if we give you another 5 years? Do the arithmetic, this means it will be 8000 just on the road in your power, how about who are dying with malaria? Cancer? Sugar? Njara? Eehe anthu atha kalanga ine.

Khima
Khima
5 years ago

As far as Road Traffic Directorate allows the following, your words bwana Minister are as well worthless
1. People getting licences without attending driving schools
2. Examiners kukhonzesa anthu mwachinyengo kuti earn a bribe from either the individual or driving school
3. Cars getting their COFs while pamitondo kunyumba
4. Defense Driving taken as an option
5. Drivers for buses, minibuses and heavy duty trucks just upgrading their licenses by just bribing someone

Shack
Shack
5 years ago

We already go through lots harassment on the roads by police unless we give them our hard earned money. What you need to do is fix the roads. They are death traps.

Wilson
Wilson
5 years ago

The bottom line is “corruption” and the corrupt systems in the MDAs.

Agenda Setting Theory
Agenda Setting Theory
5 years ago

I attribute these deaths not to the lack of enforcement of traffic laws, but corruption at Road traffic and Traffic police. People still get driving licence in Malawi through corruption, vehicles still get COF even when they are not brought before inspection, driving schools connive with road traffic to have their students pass driving tests

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