Fuel crisis continues despite presiden't assurance

  1. Posted on Monday 14 December 2009 - 15:08
    Richard Chirombo
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    Twenty-four hours have now passed since Wednesday last week, when Malawi's president Bingu wa Mutharika assured Malawians that the fuel crisis the country is grappling with would come to an end.
    Mutharika issued the assurance when the going got tough for government, and civil society organisations demanded that he makes his position clear.
    Today, Monday, vehicles are still lining up, with lines that simply seem too long they cannot end.
    "Let us wait and see what happens in the next twenty-four hours," Mutharika said last week.
    Motorists are still waiting for the long-coming fuel that seems nowhere near the destination.

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