Incoming National Council members have been urged to revisit the regional constituency development fund bill aimed at uplifting rural and urban development in various regions.
This was said by outgoing National Council chairperson Lukas Muha on Wednesday during a farewell dinner in Windhoek.
The council’s five-year term will conclude next week Monday, ahead of the upcoming regional council and local authority elections slated for 26 November.
“The regional constituency development fund will take our communities out of the situation they are in. As incoming members, you must revisit this important bill which seems to have gone quiet,” he said.
Muha stated that the fund must become a law.
The bill motion was tabled in 2023 by independent candidate parliamentarian Paulus Mbangu and again tabled in the National Assembly last year by the former urban and rural development minister Erastus Uutoni.
However, the bill has since gone under the radar.
During the state of national address earlier this year, president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah announced that the bill will be tabled this year after it lapsed last year, but this has not happened, Mbangu said.
He wants the bill to be treated as a matter of urgency.
“People do not want big things, they want immediate action such as a direct pipeline connecting them to water.”
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