LILONGWE (Maravi Post)—Minister of Local Government Kondwani Nankhumwa has told the nation that the Peter Mutharika administration has no money to compensate vendors who lost their property due to market fire.
Nankhumwa was speaking to vendors after inspecting the Mulanje main market on Monday saying government has not allocated budget for such issues.
The minister asked the concerned vendors to start sourcing business capital on their own saying that government will only negotiate to the money lending institutions to help them with loans.
“As government, we are very concerned with the vendors who lost their property due to market fire because they (vendors) play a good role in our country’s development,” said Nankhumwa.
“However, government has not allocated budget for compensating the affected vendors. But what we have done as a ministry is to talk to the money lending institutions to start giving you some loans if possible,” he added.
The development has angered many vendors because they were expecting government to bail them out particularly because most of the fire incidents are caused ESCOM’s own faults.
Meanwhile, vendors are yet to issue a comment on the matter.
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AAA ce Nakumwa mimba ,nganga ili uko, mukulankhula zopusa ka ya apa. ndi ndal;ama zingati vendor mungamukongoze despite fleet bajeti ya 2015??????????????? iyi ndi emmergency — disaster kaya mwe.
zili ngati malilo izi, inu kwanu mmabajetela malilo?????????????????????
zankutu, ngati ukulankhulila ku … kwako.
ma venda omweo amakupangilani misonkho yoti muzipitola ku newyorko, kulowa mu hotela nkuvula kumajambulila ma paipi anu kutumizila zibwezi, mosemo ife tikupereka ndalama zoti muzigulila ma units ausilu anuwo. bolaso muzingoyenda malisece, taciona cimamuna conyasa cimawigula pipe yake kunyasa ngati iye yemwe. anaake aona.
nde zinazi mukamalankhula bashopo nazo