Illegal fencing a problem at Mankumpi

The Mankumpi constituency in the Kavango west region is faced with a challenge of illegal fences being erected in the constituency, mostly overnight, its councillor Lukas Muha has said.

Muha while presenting his accountability report explained that the constituency has designated land earmarked and demarcated for commercial farming, however, the problem still persists.

“All of this land was demarcated and given to farmers. However, people are still erecting illegal fences within the community unofficially,” he said.

He stressed that in most cases when following up with the traditional authority, they too are unaware of such activities.

Muha noted that there are processes that need to be followed for people to put up fences.

“As we speak, we have made submissions to different offices for central government to chip in and help as to how we can remove these illegal fences,” he said.

Two illegal fences are currently being investigated by the traditional authority in addition to another 28 that have also been submitted for attention to the central government, he stated.

Challenges

The councillor further said another challenge the region is faced with is that of roads, which makes it difficult for the inhabitants to access essential services.

He said the constituency office, for instance, is based at Satotwa village but it is hard for the inhabitants to access the office as the road that leads there is very sandy.

Many construction projects are also not completed because of the state of the roads in the constituency.

Muha said he has been engaging the Roads Authority to see how they can at least prioritise the Charlie Cutline road by upgrading it as it runs through farms in six constituencies. – Nampa