RE-ELECTED Okahandja mayor Johannes ‘Congo’ Hindjou promised to give the town’s streets a facelift in 2018 during the swearing-in ceremony of local authority councillors on Monday.
He said among the features to be added are speed humps near schools, and roads to be upgraded with pavements for pedestrians.
Hindjou indicated that most streets in Okahandja do not have names, and the council will erect street signs in each of them.
“We will also rename streets after [national] heroes” he said.
The mayor added that the moratorium placed on the sale of erven in the town by former urban and rural development minister Sophia Shaningwa in August 2015 posed a challenge to the municipality as no resident was allocated land in 2017.
The moratorium was placed on the sale of unserviced land due to irregular land transactions by the town’s local authority, and it would only be lifted once an audit was done and the findings and recommendations finalised.
However, the council plans to service 331 erven in the Veddersdal residential area next year, while waiting for the moratorium to be lifted.
Sophia Upite was also re-elected deputy mayor.
Other members of the seven-member council are Helmi Maruru; Gideon !Uwu-Khaeb; Sylvia Karuuambe; Frederick Shimanda and Hileni Iita.
– Nampa
