GCC spends millions servicing private land

Gaborone City Council (GCC) has been servicing privately-owned land with taxpayers' money that could run into multi-millions of Pula, Mmegi has learnt.

GCC was taken to task last week by councillor Seabelo Thekiso who wanted to know under what authority the council was maintaining privately owned infrastructure. In effect the civic leader was asking why GCC was using public funds to service infrastructure such as sewer lines, road networks, open spaces and street lighting in freehold land at Phakalane Estates and Gaborone North.

Thekiso also wanted to know whether these services had been legally transferred to GCC. The GCC is said to have prepared a structure plan for Gaborone North to guide orderly developments in that area to avoid haphazard subdivision, which would have made infrastructure reticulation a nightmare.

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