Govt must get tough over shoddy work

While much effort and time seem to be spent on the conception and mobilisation of projects, it appears little or nothing is done to ensure the agreed projects are successfully implemented. In many sessions in Parliament, members have complained about poor project implementation.

President Festus Mogae has also in the past devoted his State-of-the-nation address to this cancerous problem. It would seem that his efforts to appoint his deputy as governments coordinator of the various projects have not borne much fruit.
A case in point is a 10km access road that connects Moremi to Lesenepole villages in the Tswapong North Constituency. According to media reports, a company that had failed to construct the road has mysteriously been paid P8 million. The company had been paid even though council representatives and the consultants who had inspected the road found it to have shown clear signs of shoddy workmanship.