By Staff Reporter
Former Health minister Angela Cifire says it’s a slap in the face and an insult to those who campaigned for the UPND and the people of Eastern Province, for Infrastructure minister Charles Milupi to say that the Chipata-Chadiza and Chipata-Vubwi roads should not be paid attention to as they are not viable.
[pp-logged-users]Calling in to Daily Revelation over the video where Diamond TV captured Milupi as saying that the said roads were not economically viable and it would therefore be impossible to recover the cost of construction, and therefore focus should be on the other viable roads, Cifire said Milupi has insulted the people of Eastern Province.
“It’s an insult for honourable Milupi to tell us that Chipata-Chadiza or Chipata-Vubwi (in Eastern Province) there is nothing happening here, when there was so much money spent on the Limulunga road (in Western Province). What comes out of that road? There is also plans for the Katunda road (in Western Province) which they are also focusing on. What is coming out of there? “ Cifire asked.
She said agriculture was the mainstay of the people of the province, and the province was also the country’s main maize basket, and therefore “we can’t have a whole minister pronouncing that.”
“I was in Chipata campaigning for UPND, for President HH to come through because we have had this situation of the Chipata-Chadiza road not being done for years from independence. And even now when we put faith in UPND then we should have a UPND minister coming out to slap us in the face. it’s unacceptable,” Cifire said. “It is a slap in the face for the people of Eastern Province, especially for the people of Luangeni where that road passes. For the people of Vubwi that is a lifeline for them. Even the people of Chadiza. And we can’t have that 57 years after independence.
“If we are taking of the new dawn we are talking about things being done differently, not that we should still be, when we are expecting that things were going to improve then the minister comes and insults us. It’s an insult.”
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