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Freeman Razemba

Senior Reporter

Government has re-opened the 6,5km stretch along Second Street Extension to traffic after its reconstruction.

Local contractors Fossil Contracting and Exodus and Company were contracted to do the work.

Fossil started reconstructing the road from the intersection of Cork Road up to Nemakonde Way (2,8 km) while Exodus and Company were working on the 3,7 kilometre stretch from Nemakonde Way to Harare Drive.

The Second Republic has put infrastructure development on top of its agenda and attention has been directed towards roads rehabilitation and construction.

The Government, through the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development, recently accelerated roads construction and maintenance for the main highways.

Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Felix Mhona this afternoon led a delegation to open the road to traffic.

He was accompanied by Harare Provincial Affairs and Devolution Minister Charles Tawengwa, legislators from the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Transport Infrastructural Development led by Cde Tichaona Karumazondo, Zimbabwe Building Contractors Association (ZBCA) president, Dr Tinashe Manzungu and the ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Engineer Joy Makumbe, among other senior Government officials.

Motorists and residents hailed the Government for the work done on the roads.

Contractors have pledged to continue delivering quality infrastructural projects assigned to them.