Everyone is looking for asphalt, and the Kilibardas are dreaming about macadam

He is twenty-seven years old Miloš Kilibarda interesting to the media. He says that about fifteen years ago he was filmed as the youngest farmer in Banjani, and the story was completed by the fact that Miloš left the seventh grade of elementary school and from Karađorđeva Street in the center of Nikšić and returned to his ancestral home - in the hamlet of Dubravča do, the village of Donji Tupan, from Velimlja is ten kilometers away.

Again, he says, he could be interesting to the media for two reasons - for the first reason he is proud, for the second he is disappointed.

"This is the house with the youngest member in Banjani. But it's also the only house in Banjani that doesn't have a road," says Miloš, who had two reasons to celebrate yesterday.

He and his wife who is four years younger Jovana they celebrated their first wedding anniversary, and their daughter a break the first month. Everyone who wanted to celebrate with the Kilibards had to work hard to get to them. The road leading to the people of Rijeka leads to their house, where one part is paved. Then it goes about a kilometer on macadam and then, what particularly hurts Kilibarde, almost 800 meters without a road. Just a rock. While others are looking for asphalt, the Kilibardas dream of a macadam road to get to their house.

"I was looking for sand, but I didn't get any tour. What I filled I caught up with a small car, a golf in a trailer, so that I could at least get closer to home. And these 700-800 meters I have no possibility to make my way home. I deal with wood, I don't have that much money, and they asked me five thousand euros for the machines. It is a large sum of money that I cannot afford", says Miloš.

He got married last September 1st. Jovana's wife is from neighboring Prigradina, from, as Miloš says, a rugged area. They are both used to stone, work, and they don't have much hope for the road.

"I have to take my child for a check-up every 15 days. I carry it on foot to the macadam. It's easy now while the weather is dry. When it starts raining, snowing, it will be unbearable, but you have to live. I'm not afraid of raising a child. Nine children were raised from this house. It is true that everyone would like to have better conditions, and we would only like macadam".

He spoke to the leaders of the administration, and his requests, as he says, date back to the period when he was the President of the Municipality Nebojsa Radojicic. He also wrote Veselin Grbović, and four months ago he sent a request to Marko Kovačević. No one ever invited him to talk. He says that in the 30 years of DPS rule, no one ever turned to his village, so it's no wonder that he couldn't wait for the change of government.

"I do not turn to the people to help me. I'm not asking for that. I am asking from the Municipality or the state. This is not a big investment for the municipality and the state. Roads are being made everywhere, they are breaking through, sand is being driven, nobody is turning to this village. They all say that they help young farmers. Who do they help? Ođe has a house that keeps 50 sheep and they have never received a loan, nor can they get one. Now let's look for it, first me and then the others, we won't get it, but they are asking for a hundred or so papers to be completed and only then you can get it".

Kilibarde keep cows, Miloš collects wood, they make a living. It's not easy, but they don't complain. According to Miloš, he chose the village himself, renounced the city, even though no one asked him to do so. He returned to the village when everyone fled from it. That is why he believes that they are not asking much from the Municipality and the state - a macadam road that would make it easier for them to "route" their own.

"I left school in the seventh grade, I left Nikšić and from Karađorđeva street, where I have my late mother's apartment, I came to Banjane 15 years ago. I only go to the apartment when I take the baby for a check-up - I go in the evening and come back the next day, or I go in the morning and come back in the evening. I don't like to spend the night even when I have to. I can do one night, two, no more. I have three brothers who work in Herceg Novi and a sister, and none of them were in favor of me returning, especially my mother, but I didn't ask anyone. I live, I work and that's it," says Miloš, who at first kept sheep.

Now he keeps three cows, a bullock and two horses and says he can make a living from farming. You just need to roll up your sleeves and have decent conditions. None of the peasants ever asked for luxury.

"You can make a living from agriculture if there are conditions. I say again - if there is a way you can make a living, a little from agriculture, a little from wood. There is always work for the worker. Even though there is no harder work than in the forest, even though we don't have a road yet, and they promised when I returned to Banjane, I didn't regret coming back. There is no way I can go to the city".

But that's why, he admits with a smile, his brothers and sister can do without the village. After all, as he says, "few young people nowadays like the countryside and work". He adds that he can do without the city, even without a car, but not without a horse.

"Everyone loves the city, the sea or somewhere further away. I love this village of mine. As for me, I'd rather be without a car than without a horse. Everything that I bring by car weighs more than 50 kilos, I have to bring it with a horse. If I didn't have a horse, I would have to carry it on my back. I have little hope for the road. They promised everything this year, but the promise of crazy joy. I think that I will get the trip only if I save up the money to build it myself. Just like that," says Miloš.

"Vijesti" contacted the President of the Municipality, Marko Kovačević, who said that they are trying to help all citizens of Nikšić as much as they can, and that Miloš Kilibarda is one of those who will certainly be helped. As Kovačević said, there are still several places in Crkvice where there is no road and he believes that that part, as well as the road to Miloš Kilibarda's house, will be completed next year. He points out that the local administration must help young people who have decided to return to the countryside, because everyone's task is to revive the villages.