Chief Nyawa appeals for road rehab

A TRADITIONAL leader in Kazungula has appealed to Government to rehabilitate the road that leads to his chiefdom for easy transportation of goods, including agriculture produce.

Chief Nyawa said that the road that leads to his palace from Zimba district is in a bad state.

He told the Daily Nation in an interview that year in and year out, farmers in his chiefdom have had challenges in accessing the farming inputs and also in transporting their produces to the markets.

Chief Nyawa said that this was because the road was in a bad state adding that it required rehabilitation especially that the rainy season was over.

He said that some of the transporters Government has been engaging to ferry farming inputs had been refusing to take up the responsibility due to the bad state of the road.

The traditional leader said that his chiefdom was the food basket of Kazungula District, therefore, the Government must consider working on the 48-kilometre stretch up to Nyawa central.

Chief Nyawa said that the situation was also similar to the transporters who were engaged by the Food Reserve Agency to ferry the purchased maize to the depots as they complained of the poor state of the stretch.

“Road works is a heavy job and it requires experienced people with heavy equipment not what was happening when they were working on the road.

“Our appeal as a Chiefdom is for our government to consider this road...this is the only road that we rely on to take our produce to the markets and also transport our inputs,” he said.