LACK OF ROAD ACCESS AFFECTING SCHOOL PROJECTS IN NAMIBIA

A proposed construction of a school project by the chinese government is set to be put on halt due to lack of access to the proposed site location.

The project which is the construction work of Satotwa Primary School has made the Chinese government to request the Namibian government to ensure there is a gravel road for their trucks to be able to deliver construction materials.

The agreement was signed between the chinese government and Namibia in 2018 was aimed at constructing two fully-fledged hostels and classrooms as well as teachers’ accommodation at the Satotwa Primary School in the Mankumpi constituency and the Simanya Combined School in the Mpungu constituency.

Works Minister John Mutorwa has stated that “The councillor said they are looking at the site where the hostels, classrooms and teachers’ accommodation will be constructed. They are happy that they will be able to execute their assigned responsibilities in terms of the agreement within the specified time. But they then checked the status of the road. The road is sandy, and they were therefore concerned, and want government to do something about it.”

He also noted that “It is very urgent so that the Chinese cannot report that Namibia could not provide us with a road, and therefore we cannot construct the school. You saw those children there, so comrade chairman, I have consulted with my colleagues both in the ministry before coming here, no excuse is acceptable. Even if we don’t have the money within the works ministry and its agencies, this is a government project, otherwise we will be laughed at