Residents of the four wards who will be voting their preferred candidates on December 18, 2021, hope that may be their cry will be heard better if they have a councillor. Some of the wards have not had representatives for over a year. Therefore, they had no one to take their greviances to the council and they were forced to rely only on their Members of Parliament (MPs), which was not easy as the MPs cover the whole constituency. Even though vacancies for council seats are supposed to be held within three months, the vacancies for the 11 council seats could not be filled or elections held due to the lockdown and stringent COVID-19 measures.
The Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) aspirant candidate, Gomolemo Gouwe complained about bad internal roads which he said worsen especially during the rainy season with some people ending up failing to access their homes or yards. “Internal roads for this ward need to be paved so that residents could have better access roads. Even the wastewater drainage system is poor. Boseja South ward has a high population and that is one of the reasons why it has a high unemployment rate. Another issue that is troubling our residents is the long distance that some students travel to school. That is the reason why we need a third primary school,” Gouwe lamented.
