Ipelegeng employs 9,000 Gaborone youth � Mayor
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe | Wednesday March 30, 2016 18:00
He also revealed that the allocated budget for the programme in Gaborone for 2016/17 had declined by three percent to P19 million.
Thutlwe said the reduction implies that the city will focus mainly on labour intensive projects unlike in the past when they had a number of projects. On poverty eradication programme, the mayor said the reason why they had given people equipment and materials with incomplete packages was due to financial constraints. “We had 110 people who had incomplete packages, 73 people thus been provided with complete packages to start their projects. Procurement is ongoing and is expected to have been completed by end of this quarter for the remaining beneficiaries,” he said.
On issue of clinical waste collection, the council has been rendering the service at no cost to the generators since clinics had relocated to the Ministry of Health, he said, they would restructure the service such that the clinic waste generators are responsible for the waste they generate.
“We have so far informed clinical waste clients to start budgeting for the collection, transportation and disposal of their waste. Such budgets will put clinical waste clients in a better position to outsource clinic waste services as and when the need arises.
We incur huge expenses in collecting and transporting clinical waste from the clinics and health facilities.”