Someone should answer for P34M Boatle-Gaborone road wastage

Yesterday, Mmegi carried a story on the government spending P34 million resurfacing the Boatle-Gaborone road only to destroy it two years later for a new dual carriage-way that is under construction. The P1.7 Billion carriage-way road is done under the Economic Stimulus Project (ESP) conceived in 2015.

The carriage-way is a welcome development because the road is one of the busiest, especially during peak hours. But spending millions on a project only to destroy it two years later makes no sense at all. Infact, it should be a crime to waste taxpayers’ money just like that. With the Boatle-Gaborone road relatively new, the P1.7 billion could have been channeled elsewhere.

The country is faced with many needs, and road infrastructure is not at its best. There are many bad roads all over the country. The much talked about Francistown-Mathangwane road, for an example, is in a very bad state, as is the Nata-Gweta one. These pot-holed roads have become death traps and have high accidents level with many lives lost in the process.

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