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Luano residents fume over road
By WINTER MUBANGA
RESIDENTS of Luano have described the poor states of the road from Masansa to the district as a death trap and danger to human life.
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Ms Sildie Mwewa, said pleas by residents to have the road worked on seem not to be given attention by the new dawn administration
She said this is despite having the Constituency Development Fund sitting in the district, a Member of Parliament and a District Commissioner.
Ms Mwewas travelled from the Copperbelt to Luano for the burial of her mother, Ms Febby Ngoma, died at the age of 85 years.
Meanwhile , Luano District Commissioner Kells Meleki has assured residents that Government has sent the CDF and people should apply for loans, bursaries and empowerment grants,
On the construction of the road from Masansa to Luano. He said Government has engaged the Road Development Agency (RDA).
He said RDA will work on the roads before the rains start.
Mr Meleki said the central government has already been engaged over the state of the road.
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