Khomas councillors pledge to prioritise service delivery - nbc

The newly sworn-in |Khomas Regional Councillors have pledged to prioritise service delivery to improve development in their constituencies. Newly elected chairperson Stefanus Ndengu from the Moses ||Garoeb Constituency singled out education, infrastructure, healthcare and improvement of roads as key priorities.

Ndengu emphasised that the council is working with the City of Windhoek (CoW) to address challenges affecting the capital.

"We also have this initiative that the government is making, which will help this program for national youth development. It's also going to be taking more youth. In that regard, it means that at the moment, we are nearly there to help many youth and youth in the community to start their own business."

New management committee member Richard !Gaoseb from the Katutura East Constituency identified an area behind the Hakahana Service Station that needs urgent attention.

!Gaoseb stressed that the high unemployment rate can be tackled through awarding projects that enable people to employ themselves.

"We should look into the core things that the youth actually need. Not what we want to provide to the youth, but what they actually need. Basically, sometimes you can give a project to a person, but that person does not need a project because he is still not business-minded. He just needs employment. That is also one phase you will look into. Or you can give a person a project, but you should also finance him somehow with financial assistance."

On her part, Regional Councillor Emma Muteka from Windhoek West said the council aims to strengthen safety and security in the constituency.

"We wish to expand more of the CCTV cameras in our previous time, and we were able to successfully direct about five CCTV cameras in different suburban areas by looking at making sure that our neighbourhood watches are well capacitated and well prepared and well-tuned so that we can work together with our city police as well as the government. We must know that safety and security are not only something that is relevant. We met with men and women in uniform. It is a community effort to make sure that we do what we have to do. The other thing that we want to look at is to maybe consider strengthening the closing of hot spots and really going out and making sure that we educate our residents in terms of safety measures that they need to take in order for them to do the right thing. I mean, we have young people in our constituency, and it's a little bit of a difficult place because one would want to go jogging with their earphones, but it's not safe at this point in time, so this is the type of education we are going to be able to have."