By Vincent Gunde
Authorities of Blantyre City Council have been asked to spare a little money for maintenances of various services the council is providing in the city and surrounding areas for public use.
For months now, traffic robots at Nandos in the heart of the City of Blantyre are functioning properly with all the lights indicating their colors but are not pointing directly for road users to see when to cross the road and what to do.
As a result of this, Nandos has turned out to be a prone to accident area as motorists and pedestrians do move and cross the road unknowingly due to the bend of the traffic robots.
Interestingly, officials of Blantyre City Council do cross the Nandos traffic robots but no one has recognized that the robots are bend making road users to wonder the negligence of the officials with an underlined statement, they are not aware of the bend.
In a food for thought to Blantyre City Council officials, Muvi wa Chilingamo Revolutionary Party(MRP) Secretary General Greyson Mikuwa, has asked the authorities to take their time off or delegating officers to monitor the services the council is providing to the public in the City.
Mikuwa said it is sad that the traffic robots bend at Nandos has been there for months without the authorities doing something over it or rectifying the problem clearly speaking for itself that some service deliveries are not maintained due to officer’s negligence.
” It is the duty of each and every responsible citizen to hold duty bearers accountable for any negligence,” he said.
The MRP Secretary General said maintenance of Nandos traffic robots will not require millions of Kwachas observing that the council has support staff to do the work without getting allowances.
He has warned Blantyre City Council authorities that failure to maintain the robots will lead him to condemn the officials in strongest terms possible for their negligence.
