07/11/2023
DEVELOPMENT MANAGER MODEL TO EXPEDITE PROJECT DELIVERY
Government has adopted the Development Manager model, to accelerate the investment agenda.
The model is expected to expedite delivery of quality projects and reduce financial and economic risk to government, President Dr Mokgweetsi Masisi said yesterday when delivering State-of-the Nation Address in Gaborone.
He said projects covered under the model included construction of roads, schools, hospitals and clinics across the length and breadth of the country and financing was to be sourced from the Domestic Development Fund.
With its strategic geographical location at the centre of Southern Africa, President Masisi said, Botswana continued to invest significantly in strategic infrastructure, to support growth and competitiveness of the country.
Dr Masisi said substantial investments in transport tinfrastructure were being made to connect communities and production areas as well as link Botswana with countries in the region, through air transport, rail link and the road network.
He said to realise the benefits, there was a need to consciously accept responsibility to preserve investment in existing infrastructure through continual maintenance, thus maximizing return on such investment.
President Masisi also said, the opening of the three interchanges along the Western Bypass improved traffic flow in and out of the capital city and added that government would continue investing in such types of projects, to improve evacuation routes in and out of major centers, especially in times of emergencies.
He said a number of roads were under construction, among others, Tshesebe-Mosojane and Masunga road and its access roads to Masukwane, Kgari and Pole, Mulambakwena and other villages.
The President said Francistown- Nata road, Nata-Pandamatenga road, Nata-Gweta and Maun-Sehithwa roads were being reconstructed.
He further said that as government reconstructed and maintained roads, there was also a commitment to develop new link roads. Dr Masisi said road linkages in the Good Hope District measuring 58 kilometres among others, Good Hope-Kgoro-Gathwane, covering Rakhuna-Ngwatsau-Sheepfarm-Malokaganyane were being designed and construction was expected to commence next year November.
He said plans were underway to seek private sector participation in dualing the remainder of the Ramatlabama-Ramokgwebana (A1) road.
Expression of interest is to be floated before the end of the current financial year, President Masisi said.
He said roads to be constructed through the Development Manager Model included Modipane-Mabalane road, Molepolole Bypass, Tloaneng-Mmankgodi, Mmathethe-Bray-Werda, three Grade Separated interchanges at Molapo Crossing, Block 8 traffic circle and Airport Junction.
Dr Masisi said that in order to preserve some of the national strategic roads, Jwaneng- Sekoma, Mahalapye-Radisele and Machaneng-Ramokgonami roads would undergo periodic maintenance in the form of asphalt overlaying. The projects, he said, were expected to commence this financial year and were to be completed in the next financial year. (BOPA)
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