Africa-Press – Botswana. Some of the developments that residents can expect in the Boteti Bothlaba electoral district in the next two years include the construction of roads in the city.
This was said by the parliament member of the district who is also the assistant minister of the health department, Mr. Sethomo Letatisitse, at the meeting of the court at Mrs. Hiikkong’s house in the morning.
Mr. Letatisitse said that there are going to be constructions in Mokubilo and Makgaba, and he said that the one in Mokubilo will have a delivery room.
He also said that twenty-five kilometers of roads in the city will be built in Letlhakane as well as water drainage lines.
The parliamentarian said that this program will be accelerated, and completed in the next two years to be in line with the development program established by the government as a temporary one that will end in 2024.
In the promotion of Boteti section to become a full district, Mr. Letatisitswe said that this will speed up the development of the district as decisions will be made soon and therefore it will be quick and easy to implement them.
He said that the decision is also the government’s efforts to make life easier for the people of the region by bringing them closer to their needs.
After that, Mr. Letatisitse emphasized the government’s goals and commitments to promote local businessmen, pointing out that vegetables and school park can be bought from outside this country as another way to bring in income. in the hands of the Batswana.
Among other things, he informed the people of Mmea that the National Development Plan (NDP) 12 program will start in the year 2025 to coincide with the election year.
Kgosi Mmea Rre Polson Keitlhaganetse has expressed concern about the delay in seeding the land, a situation which he says causes conflicts in families as well as the gathering of illegal immigrants.
Kgosi Keitlhaganetse complained again about the Mokubilo-Mmea road saying that it is not in a good condition and is impassable when it rains.
The chairman of Mmea’s village development committee Mme Serurubele Pono said that they have requested that the midwife be informed to take the expectant mothers to Mokubilo.
Ms. Pono said that it is necessary to make a water tank at Mmea’s small school, which is built in a hillock, and when the rains came, it became an unpleasant situation with the water standing in it.
Some residents expressed a number of concerns that affect their village, including the delay in seeding the land, the delay in giving seeds, the lack of benefits as well as the damage caused by elephants in the fields.
One of them, Mrs. Lucy Pono, said that they live off agriculture and the situation of elephant damage is setting back their efforts to make their own food.
He also pointed out that those who are not fed by the wealth that is falling in the city and in the fields.
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