By Linda Kwanjana
Member of Parliament for Lilongwe City South Constituency Ulemu Msungama has commended Malawi Leader President Dr Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera’s Government for the launch of Area 23 – Chipasula Road Project
Speaking during the launch before thousands of his supporters who came to witnes the cermony, Msungama urged the contractor to employ people from the same constituency than importing them from other districts.
“I am very happy for this project , today looks to be my another birth day. However I call upon the contractor to employ people from this area,” he said. Msungama described the road as very strategic for the people of area 23 and Chipasula.
According to the Lilongwe City Council project will cost the Malawi Government coffers K2Billion.
This is the road which Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Governorment constructed through Plem Construction but lasted only one year before being washed away due to shoddy work by that Company.
Mayor for the Lilongwe City Council Esther Sagawa has since commended Malawi President Dr Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera for making the project possible.
Sagawa asked people in the area to own the project while urging the contractor to work with speed.
“My message that I am giving to the people of this area is that this is for us. This development has been given to us. We need to own this project , and we need to be one of the people that are going to be taking care of even the equipments that are going to be used by our consultant as well as our contractor,” he said.
During the cermony, Sagawa urged the contractor to do a good work.
“I have also passed on the message to the contractor that we don’t want a job that has to be redone in every year or two years to come. We want something that is solid, and we want something that is giving us quality as it is supposed to be, because they have to give us a value for money that we have given we are giving them,” He said.
During his term as MP for the area Msungama has already initiated construction of big projects such as Chilinde Rural Hospital, and Nchesi Area 23 Road which is one of the most durable roads in Lilongwe.
