THE National Road Fund Agency is right to say the recent cases of premature road failures and wash-aways are a point of serious public concern. They are not just concerning; they are a national embarrassment. When a newly constructed road begins to fail before the public has even finished celebrating its completion, something is fundamentally wrong. When a culvert on a strategic corridor like Chingola-Kasumbalesa is washed away soon after construction, and when government officials are forced to direct contractors to redo sections of a newly built PPP road, citizens are entitled to ask a very simple question: what exactly is going on in this sector? We agree with NRFA chief executive officer Daniel Mtonga that these failures must be...
