The Chingola-Chililabombwe Road is one of the most important international trade routes that our country has. Our minerals and other cross-border trade depends on it. So the development that saw this road cut and a bridge washed away last week is not a small inconvenience; it raises serious questions that deserve urgent answers. What we saw is a clear wash-away of a road and we need to find out what exactly failed. The first thing to establish is simple: was that a new culvert, or was it a layer of new road sitting on old bridge infrastructure? The Chingola-Chililabombwe Road was first built a long time ago. When the concessionaire recently got the deal and took over the road, the...