UPGRADING OF MASAUKO CHIPEMBERE HIGHWAY TO RESUME END NOVEMBER

Blantyre City Council (BCC) Chief Executive Officer Ted Nandolo has disclosed that phase III of the Masauko Chipembere Highway project is scheduled to start at the end of this month, saying the contractor to carry out the project has been already identified.

Nandolo disclosed the news during the first ordinary council meeting held at the council chamber on Thursday 6,2014.

“The final phase will start from Yiannakis Roundabout going through Limbe up to Illovo Roundabout. The contractor, World Kaihatsu Kogyo Company Limited [WKK] will be available by the end of the month”, said Nandolo.

Nandolo said the whole project will cost the council at about $6 million (about K3 billion).

The third phase of the project will also include upgrading of the one-way Livingstone Avenue up to the roundabout near Illovo Sugar (Malawi) Limited head office.