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Government must provide money to fix Mahdia road
The Alliance For Change (AFC) is expecting that the 2014 National Budget will provide sufficient funds for the rehabilitation of the main road in the Mahdia community.
The present condition of the road is most appalling, especially in the rainy season, the party said in a statement yesterday.
“The 2013 Budget did not provide sufficient funds to rehabilitate the road.
The state of Mahdia main road, Region Eight.
It is unconscionable that for a region that contributes as much to the national coffers as Region Eight, its residents have to put up with a road as bad as the one they have.”
According to the seven-seat party, the Government while boasting of the growth in the economy and the record gold production, should put back some of that money into the region.
“The AFC is urging the Local Government Minister to cooperate with the Regional Democratic Council and heed the call of the Council to have the Regional Executive Officer removed. The REO’s non-cooperative attitude has stymied the efforts of the RDC to bring development to the Region and as a result the people are suffering.”
Chairman of the RDC, Mark Crawford, has repeatedly written the Local Government Minister citing numerous instances of the REO being less than professional, but, to date, the Minister has failed to see the wisdom of ensuring Region Eight has an REO who is committed to the development of the Region, the party said.
“It seems that since losing control of the Region to the AFC, the PPP/C Government through the Ministry of Local Government and its appointed REO has been punishing the people of Region Eight for voting the way they did in 2011.”
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