The Outjo municipality will on Saturday inaugurate its satellite service centre that will provide basic social services to residents of the town’s informal areas.
The municipality’s Strategic Executive Officer for Corporate Services, Bartholomeus !Aibeb in an interview with Nampa on Thursday said the Outjo Legacy Centre, to be officially inaugurated by President Hage Geingob, is situated in the centre of the seven informal settlements.
The centre comprises a municipality satellite office equipped with prepaid water and electricity selling points, a mini police station with holding cells, a library fully resourced with computers and reading materials, a clinic, community hall and ablution facilities.
The construction of the centre commenced in February 2016 under the supervision of the then Outjo mayor, Marius Sheya, !Aibeb said.
The Outjo Legacy Centre will serve over 3 000 inhabitants of the informal areas.
“It will also reduce their costs of travelling to town as many of our residents in the informal settlements of Soweto, Ehangano, Sevende Laan, Camp Four, Camp Five, Camp 60 and Kap en Bou travel a lot to town to access basic services,” he said.
Source: The Namibia Press Agency