Deka road is a death trap

IT IS with a heavy heart that I pen this letter. I am bitter and I feel it is very unfair to travellers who ply the busy Deka Drum Road and rural folk who water their cattle in the shallow puddles of Sikabala and Deka river water.

The water is contaminated with water from the mines. Residents are losing their cattle due to contaminated water. On behalf of the people who ply the busy Deka Drum Road and on my behalf as this is the road that I use when going to my rural area Sidinda I appeal to the powers that be to do something about this road.

The haulage trucks ferrying coal from small-scale miners are damaging the road. Potholes have emerged causing a lot of discomfort to passengers in private vehicles or public transport.

WK and JRG and Chilota mines destroyed the road and left without ploughing back to the community.

This is the same with old Bulawayo road which the Makomo haulage trucks use to ferry coal to Zesa Hwange Power Station. The road is seriously damaged. It’s high time we deal with looters in Hwange District. On the Deka Drum and Old Bulawayo roads the tar has peeled off, leaving it like a desert making the road slippery and rocky.

The concerned miners should be responsible for repairing the roads as they are ever running businesses along these roads.

Plough back to the community as you are the ones doing business in these areas.

Why are you so selfish? I therefore advise mangers to shun and abstain from politics and recruit local people for them to benefit. For how long will they suffer?

Relevant authorities, bail out the local folks on fair employment and travellers who use the road from the bad state of the roads.

Lawrence General Chinene, Hwange.