During the financial year 2021/2022, the Kavango East Region was allocated an amount of N.dollars 160 million for developmental purposes, the region’s governor, Bonny Wakudumo, said.

Wakudumo said this when he gave an account of how the regional government performed during the above-mentioned financial year in his State of the Region Address delivered on Wednesday.

He said from the provision, the Kavango East Regional Council spent an amount of N.dollars 600 000 on income-generating projects in all six constituencies of the region.

Although the projects are not listed, 77 people benefited from this initiative, he said.

In the Ndiyona Constituency, the regional government spent close to N.dollars 2.5 million on the fifth phase of the electrification programme, as well as on the construction of roads there.

“Understand the rural sanitation program, 20 ventilated pit latrines were constructed in five constituencies at a cost of N.dollars 480 000,” Wakudumo said.

He further explained that during the period under review, 21 schools in the region benefited from the construction of ablution facilities at a cost of N.dollars 13 million.

Fourteen classrooms were also constructed at Rebecca Kambundu Primary School and Sarasungu Junior Primary School at a cost of N.dollars 6 million, he added.

According to him, 153 schools benefited from the country’s school feeding programme at an amount of N.dollars 13 million.

Meanwhile, Wakudumo pointed out that the University of Namibia’s Rundu Campus is in dire need of a 21st-century library facility to enable effective learning through 24-hour-study services for both undergraduate and postgraduate students.

The establishment of such a library will require collective efforts to raise funds of about N.dollars 150 million, he said.

Source: The Namibian Press Agency