Former Labour MP Philip Sciberras, who later also served as a judge, has lashed out at the authorities responsible for road works, labelling them as “incompetent”.

In a post on Facebook, Sciberras said that the people responsible for roads have been (months (if not years)” opening up Truq ix-Xatt tal-Imsida, “patching it up, repairing it, covering it” only for doing the same thing some time later.

This is the extent to which “your imagination reaches”, he charged, saying that there has been no consideration to the “citizen-drivers” who use it every day and gets frustrated while trying to go from one end to the other.

“Citizens are not a pack of beasts that can be taken wherever you like, and for any length of time.”

Sciberras, who is also a poet and writer, referred to an epigram by Mgr Pietru Pawl Saydon which, literally translated, said that “we’re moving forward and becoming worse, let’s go back to become better”.

Sciberras was a Labour MP between 1979 and 1987. He was appointed judge in 2002.