MINISTRY of Local Government and Rural Development Permanent Secretary for Technical Services Nicholas Phiri says government has not made much progress in terms of rural road infrastructure due to the huge debt. Speaking during a press briefing, Thursday, Phiri said government was trying to see how best it would dismantle the debt and start on a clean slate. “I turn to rural roads that we did under 2023, I must say here that we’ve not done much progress in terms of rural roads or the road infrastructure. Part of the reason being that we are still sitting on a huge debt. When we came into office, we had debt in the road sector, the feeder roads which some of the...

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