Improved Road Transport Across the Country

The road network is critical for movement of goods and services across the country, yet a majority of roads had for over two decades remained untarred and poorly maintained. The capital city, Lilongwe, was left to rot with dilapidated road infrastructure at a time other capitals in the region were being transformed to modern metropolis.

Choice of location for road projects was largely determined by political preferences. This compromised economic logic on where to put good roads and the contractors to do the job.

All this ended up affecting the quality of roads. Most of the roads constructed between 1994 and 2020 are already impassable with the whole surface gone.

This is why President Chakwera has ensured that the quality of roads and national distribution of projects should be top of his agenda in this sector.