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Blessings Chidakwa-Municipal Reporter
Reconstruction of the dual Seke Road under the Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme Phase 2 (ERRP2) which was scheduled for three months, is now 60 percent complete in less than three weeks, as infrastructural development continues to take shape.
As roads upgrade gathers pace, the Government has since engaged contractors to start work on the badly damaged Masotsha Ndlovu Way in Harare, while other roads are at different stages of completion.
Our news crew visited Seke Road yesterday and observed that the contractor, Bitumen World, was working round the clock to complete the busy road and now past the St Patricks area in Hatfied from the Coca Cola Corner.
Transport and Infrastructure Development Deputy Minister Mike Madiro also toured the road to assess progress yesterday.
“The ERRP2 is progressing very well. Here at Seke road, the state of disrepair was beyond imagination and the Government through our President and his team, the Cabinet, decided to intervene after local authorities had failed to repair roads due to various reasons here we are.
“The progress here at Seke road is 60 percent and within three months we are going to complete this road,” said Deputy Minister Madiro.
Deputy Minister Madiro said many other roads under the ERRP2 were well on course.
“In Harare, Campbell road is already 90 percent complete and Epworth road also 40 percent in terms of work in progress. Masotsha Ndlovu Way is in near state of disrepair. What we are doing now is we are currently procuring a contractor immediately to make sure that the road is sorted.
“We are using local contractors in terms of human capital. Zimbabwe is ahead of most of the African countries and here we are using our own resources to make sure that we repair our roads,” he said.
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