Africa-Press – Botswana. Tutume District Council has secured P36.3 million for the construction of a new Rural Administration Centre (RAC) in Tutume.
Addressing District Development Committee (DDC) meeting recently, acting council secretary, Mr Milton Keitshokile said following the upgrading of the council to a full-fledged district council there was need to build new offices to match the new council status.
The project, Mr Keitshokile said was scheduled to commence at the beginning of the new financial year, adding that they had already started preparations for the designs and site, where the offices would be built.
He further noted that the project had been budget for under the government’s Transitional National Development Plan (TNDP), scheduled to run for the next two years beginning 2023/2024.
Mr Keitshokile highlighted that initially, the plan was to have the new offices built at the plot that was set aside years back, located at Selolwane ward, but through proper assessments, they had realised that the site was not suitable and the geographical location was not going to be favourable for their clientele.
The acting council secretary thus explained that the new offices would be built at the current plot and expanded to another council plot within the vicinity of the current offices.
This, he said was because the current offices were strategically located to carter for all their clientele from the district since it was adjacent to the bus rank, where people connected to travel to their respective areas falling under the three constituencies of Nkange, Nata/Gweta and Shashe West.
Regarding other projects to be undertaken in the next two years, the principal economic planner Ms Kelapile Mphotho pointed out that only projects outlined in the TNDP would be implemented.
Furthermore, Ms Mphotho said apart for the RAC offices, they had been allocated other projects such as the construction of a truck inn at Nata, adding that they had started consultation on the re-construction of the 200-kilometre Francistown-Nata road, which had been allocated P700 million as well as the Nata-Maun road, which received P580 million.
In addition, she stated that other projects included construction of two clinics without maternity wing at Mosetse and Semitwe at a cost of over P30 million.
All those projects, she said would be undertaken through TNDP and appealed to concerned heads of departments to ensure that implementation was done as per schedule and also emphasised close monitoring to ensure adherence to time frames and allocated budget.
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