16 Jan 2023

Government plans to introduce development managers to ensure projects are up to standard and completed within time and budget.

   According to Moshupa/Manyana  MP, Mr Karabo Gare, the move was prompted by contractors who failed to complete projects within budget and on time resulting in cost escalations.

 Addressing a kgotla meeting in Moshupa recently, Mr Gare, who is the Minister of Entrepreneurship, had earlier briefed his audience on the Citizen Inclusion Act aimed at empowering Batswana.

 The legislation was aimed at ensuring that local companies had a share in undertaking projects aimed at developing the country’s economy, he explained.

   Mr Gare said the law would ensure most of the profits from government tenders remained within the country.

Regarding shortage of medicines, the MP said government was working tirelessly to arrest the situation explaining that pharmaceutical companies  prioritised orders from countries buying in enormous quantities which disadvantaged less populous states like Botswana.

He urged his constituents to make use of government programmes to better their lives as well as create employment opportunities.

Echoing Mr Gare’s words, Moshupa’s Kgosi Oscar Mosielele  encouraged the residents to utilise government programmes to produce food and meet national food security needs.  

Kgosi Mosielele emphasised his point with the Setswana adage that Mokoduwe go tsosiwa o o itsosang meaning those who made efforts to be improve their livelihoods were bound to get assistance.

Commenting, some residents complained about the poor state of both internal roads and those linking the village to  other villages and production areas, which made it difficult for them to fend for themselves and sustain their livelihoods.

While appreciative of ongoing projects such as hospital, stadium and sanitation works, residents complained that they were taking too long to be completed.

Meanwhile,  the long standing challenge of illegal sand mining continues to haunt Moshupa residents who are now working closely with police to bring the situation under control. 

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