13 Mar 2014

 

 Public officers  in  the Southern  District have been urged  to  take services to rural communities to enable residents to take advantage of citizen  empowerment programmes.

Addressing Mokgomane residents during a kgotla meeting on March 12, President  Lieutenant General  Seretse Khama  Ian Khama said some Batswana missed out on government programmes  because  of  lack of  information on the government assistance programmes tailor-made for them.

He said public officers should reach out to rural communities to curtail residents having to travel long distances to be assisted often times at service centres only.

President Khama challenged particularly the labour office from both Kanye and Goodhope to do mobile out-reaches to residents of Mosi/Sedibeng to address labour related issues.

President Khama was reacting to a concern raised by Kgosi Mokgabisi Selerio of Mokgomane.

 He urged the district commissioner, Mr Moses Gaealashwe and the council secretary, Mr Mompati Seleka to be at the forefront of service delivery in the district, adding that he was not impressed to have learnt of some officers who never made an effort to reachout to rural communities.

Kgosi Mokgabisi also complained that no Cabinet ministers, save for the area Member of Parliament, Mr Peter Siele and Mr Kitso Mokaila have visited the village in the last five years.

Meanwhile, a resident of Sedibeng, Ms Virginia Mogorosi has complained that the newly leased 18 commercial farms in Mosi/Sedibeng area have encroached into their grazing land and caused conflicts between residents and farmers. Ends