DIMAPUR, MARCH 15 (MExN): The Rengma Hoho today expressed concern at the attitude of State National Highway department considering that “even after receiving fund from the centre since October 2016 for the sector, Tseminyu and Wokha NH-62, the department is deliberately delaying to start the work.”
A press note from the Rengma Hoho questioned “how a department can take people into ransom when the people of Rengma and Lotha areas have suffered enough spending its resources, time and the physical participation of people demanding the construction of the road within its jurisdiction.”
The roads in these areas, it stated, have been abandoned for decades thereby inflicting suffering on the people. “...if not a fault played by the department there is no question as to why the work should not start as time frame is given to complete the work or is it the department want to make blatant lie that they are yet to receive fund from the centre,” it questioned.
The Rengma Hoho said that the “people have suffered enough and we will not tolerate anymore the autocratic attitude of any authority playing with the rights of the people.” To have the good road is the right of the citizen, it added, while reminding the department that “we have been fighting for this and suffered for too long.” It further called for “any officials involved or responsible for not taking up the work in time” to be punished.
The Rengma Hoho also made it clear that the centre “has sanctioned money not to build confusion nor for any individual or group interest but for the welfare of the people.” It therefore cautioned that if the work does not start within March 2017 and completed within the stipulated time, “the people will go to the street with the issue and will not talk or listen to any reason and for anything that happens, the department and government will held fully responsible.”
