Many months have gone by with no repairs carried out to the roads in Lami and the same reason is being given by the town council which is lack of funds.

The Lami Town Council has estimated that it will cost close to $3.8 million to fix all the roads in the Lami area.

Town clerk Priya Ieli said the council is faced with the challenge of fixing the roads as it is very costly, and the council can only fix a few roads at a time since they do not have the funds to do so.

Ieli said they understand the frustration faced by their rate payers, but they must understand that through the government challenge fund they only received $55,000 and the council matched the figure with an additional $55,000 which brought their road repair work budget to $110,000 for 2008.

Ieli said the council already has started work on two of their main roads which are the Fenton and Vetaia roads and they will focus on other roads afterwards.