13 Jun 2021

Tonota MP Semotswane/Mmandunyane Road, which passes through Shashemooke, Borolong and Chadibe, may soon be tarmacked.

Addressing a leadership meeting in Mmandunyane on Friday june 11, Mr Pono Moatlhodi said the project would create employment for residents of the six villages.

Mr Moatlhodi also stated that the next parliamentary session would discuss the Constitutional Amendment Bill and appealed to them to partake in the referendum that would be called by government on the matter. 

He, however, said certain sections of the constitution had been overtaken by events, hence the need to amend them.

He further said another important exercise to be undertaken was the population census.

MP Moatlhodi called for the proper utilisation of government resources since COVID 19 had impacted negatively on the economy.

He pointed out that some beneficiaries, who had been enrolled under the government welfare programme should be reassessed.

Mr Moatlhodi said the Ipelegeng programme continued to play a significant role in improving the lives of many Batswana.

He concurred with residents that there was need to have an additional police officer in Mandunyane due to increased crime.

The Tonota legislator commended the police officer posted at the village, Sergeant Gomolemo Phiri, for fighting crime despite having no transport.

He raised a concern about some public officers who failed to pay Village Development Committee (VDC) house rentals and.

VDCs across the country, he said, were being owed a lot of money, but no action was taken against the defaulters.

He advised Mandunyane VDC to maintain its houses so that they could attract high rentals. 

He, however, pledged to donate 16 blankets to the committee members and the village traditional leadership.

Another concern he raised was the high numbers of neglected children and appealed to parents to play their parental role, particularly in their children’s education.

Furthermore, he promised to fight hard to have the envisaged Tonota primary hospital built.

Mr Moatlhodi said e Francistown Botswana Meat Commission (BMC) would open soon for sheep and goat slaughtering.

He said Botswana had identified a market for sheep and goat meat in Asia and Saudi Arabia.

Meanwhile, the Village Development Committee secretary, Ms Dorries Jack, together with Kgosi Ookeditse Obuseng complained about the bad status of a road that connected Mandunyane to the main AI road.

Ms Jack also called on government to build a second primary school in Mandunyane because the current enrolment at Mandunyane Primary school had exceeded the required number.

The school, she said, needed a photocopying machine, chairs and tables while the local clinic needed to be upgraded to accommodate a drug storeroom.

Ms Jack asked for the construction of three nurses’ staff houses and provision of a computer at the Social and Community Development office. ENDS