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Mpezeni complains over bad state of Mwami Road

Mpezeni complains over bad state of Mwami Road
By Christopher Miti in Chipata
Tue 11 May 2010, 03:00 CAT

PARAMOUNT Chief Mpezeni of the Ngoni people in Eastern Province has complained over the bad state of Mwami Road in Luangeni Constituency.

And Ngoni traditionalist George Zulu has advised Luangeni MMD member of parliament Angela Cifire and other aspiring candidates for the Luangeni seat not to fight over trivial things.

In an interview on Sunday, Mpezeni said Mwami Road, which leads to Mwami Adventist Hospital, had been in a bad state for a long time.

Mpezeni said Cifire, who visited the constituency last week, assured him that the road would be worked on this year.

“They (government) are saying this road is on the programme but you know this road needs more than grading. It is supposed to be raised,” he said.

And Zulu who is former Petauke district commissioner and consultant under the United Nations said he was disappointed with the team that was intending to contest in Luangeni for fighting over T-shirts that were given by one aspiring candidate.

“This is a democratic system and every person must be allowed to associate…to give whatever they can give, but the Luangeni Constituency is where the paramount chief of the Ngoni lives. Paramount chief Mpezeni is a honorary member of parliament for Luangeni constituency because that’s where he lives. Now aspiring candidates, those who want to get into leading the people, should not fight over trivial things,” Zulu said.

“The current MP is supposed to be defending her record. At this time, she should be telling the people that if that one is giving T-shirts I have given you roads. Look at the (Mwami) road from the (Malawi road) turn-off to Mwami hospital, the road is impassable. It is in a deplorable state and that’s where our women, our children, our disabled people use to go to the hospital,” he said.

He said Cifire as a defending ‘champion’ should tell the people what she had done for them.
“This is a marketing season. She must lead the people, establish markets and make it easy for the people to go and sell their products.

There were villagers in Luangeni Constituency who had their small fields taken over by titleholders, people who hold title deeds, there were those things. What did the MP do to solve this problem? Because if she went democratically or diplomatically to go and discuss with the farmer (who owns the land), I don’t think the farmer would have been an evil person not to allow the people to continue farming but with an arrangement that the people, the villagers, know that that place belongs to somebody else,” he said.

Zulu said the villagers were complaining that they were now farming on the hills.

Labels: CHIEF MPEZENI, GEORGE ZULU, INFRASTRUCTURE, ROADS

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