MMEWR employees urged to work hard
Ivy Matlho | Wednesday February 24, 2016 13:12
Kgomotso Abi, the ministry’s permanent secretary, said during an open day at Bobonong recently that challenges included the supply of water and electricity.
Abi said the employees should not use these challenges as an excuse not to deliver quality service to Batswana. He asked employees to understand that they were serving people of different characters, which required patience.
He said that it was important for the employees to ensure that the people they served were satisfied. “We understand that we are faced with many challenges as the ministry but that should not stop us from delivering our services to people as promised,” he said. “We will try by all means to overcome the challenges we are facing. People should not lose hope in us because the situation we are facing will soon end.” Abi also asked Batswana not to lose hope in the ministry as it was working hard to ensure that the community was satisfied. He said the ministry’s challenges should not destroy its relationship with the people it served.
Bobirwa Sub Council chairperson, Nathaniel Moribame, said that it was important for the ministries to engage the community they served to share ideas on how developments can be done.
Moribame said the council appreciated efforts to engage the community, as it was the first time in Bobonong to have an open day event where community members were taught about services offered by different departments under the ministry. He said organising such events was important as it created a positive relationship between the ministry and its clients. A representative of Department of Geological Survey, Omphemetse Lekula, said manufactured sand could be used as an alternative to river sand. Lekula said illegal sand mining negatively affected rivers in Botswana, hence the need to use manufactured sand. He said that through the adoption of manufactured sand the ecosystem would have enough time to recover and the beauty of the land reinstated.
“We have assessed manufactured sand to see if it is effective and the results were positive,” he said. “Even the bricks made from manufactured sand were harder than those made using river sand.”