GCC councillors accuse City Clerk of sabotage
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe | Tuesday January 12, 2016 11:50
During the Gaborone City Council (GCC) meeting yesterday, the disappointed councillors accused the city clerk’s office of failing to implement council resolutions.
“The reason why councillors complain or repeat the same things every day is because there is no resolution committee. I think the time has come for us as councillors to have our own resolution committee to take the council administrative arm to task. We should have at least three councillors who will take notes of full council proceedings,” nominated councillor Kagiso Ntime said.
He said when council resumes, it is important that council resolutions be read so that the status of resolutions is known to the House – those that were implemented and those which were not implemented.
Ntime said the council attorney was also shocked when he realised that GCC has no resolution committee.
“The councillors resolution committee will make sure that the council administrative arm will be accountable. When the councillors feel that the administration is not implementing any of their resolutions then they must stand up,” he said.
Ntime said councillors had long requested that the council should explain why its financial books were not audited and how it responded to some questions that the Auditor General asked them.
“It is more than four to six months since councillors demanded answers, but nothing has been done. We have capable councillors and some staff members. I believe there is someone who is failing them,” Ntime said.
Ntime further advised the council to go to the National Strategy Office to get a booklet on which council is expected to write some of their priorities so that those things may be included in the Economic Stimulus Package.
“Other councils have done so and we are the ones who are lagging behind,” he said.
However, councillor for Diphetogo ward in Bonnington North, Tshepho Moloko said streetlights have for a long time been dysfunctional in his area, but there is no indication that they will be repaired anytime soon.
“The issue of failing to do maintenance for street lights should be taken seriously. People are now thinking that councillors are failing to perform when in fact nothing is being done here,” Moloko said.
Moloko complained that the council should do something on classroom shortages to reduce overcrowding in primary schools.