The Roads Fund Administration (RFA) has obtained an injunction restraining indigenous contractors from taking over its two tollgates of Chingeni in Ntcheu and Kalinyeke in Dedza.
The contractors threatened to take over the toll gates following RFA’s failure to pay them their K15 billion as an outstanding payment.
They were to take over the two tollgates tomorrow, September 24 2004.
According to an order of injunction delivered Friday, September 20 2024, High Court judge Kenyatta Nyirenda sitting at Lilongwe has further ordered that the court will hear an order of interlocutory injunction be heard on October 1, 2024.
“An Order of injunction is granted against the Defendants whether by themselves, their servants, agents or whomsoever from taking over toll gates at Chingeni in Ntcheu District and Kalinyeke in Dedza District in the Republic of Malawi and letting motorists to pass through without paying the required toll fees until the determination of this matter or until a further order of this Court,” reads part of the order.
In their earlier a letter to RFA Chief Executive officer the aggrieved indigenous contractors say they started pushing for payment of outstanding amounts owed to them on May 21 when their leadership under Mabcata presented a petition
They said partial payments were made from June to early July when they were stopped again
According to the Indigenous contractors “this inconveniences them again hence holding a vigil at RFA offices in Lilongwe from 4th September to 6th September.”
They were surprised that RFA and line ministers are not taking steps to resolve their grievances therefore they feel neglected and victimized
The contractors wondered why RFA is not paying them their money when it is collecting hundreds of millions of kwacha per month
