Okakarara can become a logistics hub: Kandorozu
Development projects will hopefully help with rampant unemployment in the Okakarara Constituency.
The town of Okakarara in the Otjozondjupa Region has the potential to be transformed into a logistics hub, should all important roads leading to it be tarred.
This was said by Okakarara constituency councillor Vetaruhe Kandorozu in an interview with Nampa on Monday.
“That is why we want the road from Okondjatu to Okakarara to be upgraded to bitumen standard because our idea is to set up a location for warehouses where the deliveries of goods will be done as well as a pick-up point for the coastal line, northern and southern parts of Namibia, Angola including other parts of Southern Africa,” he said.
He revealed that after a financially draining 2018, his office is engaging foreign investors who want to set up a solar manufacturing plant at a very small scale first to test the market.
Should it go their way, the solar manufacturing plant would create employment for the inhabitants of the town, he said. He added that Okakarara needs a shopping mall and called on businesses to invest in the town.
Other prospects that could create employment are road works that are to start in the constituency, such as the road between Okondjatu and Okakarara and the one between Okahandja and Okondjatu.
“We are also waiting for the Namibia Training Authority, which has allocated N$100 million for the construction of a hospitality centre in Okakarara. So maybe, if some of these projects get started, they will serve as a turbine to turn around the belt for other activities to come on board,” Kandorozu said.
Like in the rest of the country, access to housing and land remains a contentious issue in the constituency, as there is no money to service plots.
Kandorozu added that a businessman was allocated three hectares at Okondjatu last year for the construction of an accommodation facility and a service station. -Nampa
This was said by Okakarara constituency councillor Vetaruhe Kandorozu in an interview with Nampa on Monday.
“That is why we want the road from Okondjatu to Okakarara to be upgraded to bitumen standard because our idea is to set up a location for warehouses where the deliveries of goods will be done as well as a pick-up point for the coastal line, northern and southern parts of Namibia, Angola including other parts of Southern Africa,” he said.
He revealed that after a financially draining 2018, his office is engaging foreign investors who want to set up a solar manufacturing plant at a very small scale first to test the market.
Should it go their way, the solar manufacturing plant would create employment for the inhabitants of the town, he said. He added that Okakarara needs a shopping mall and called on businesses to invest in the town.
Other prospects that could create employment are road works that are to start in the constituency, such as the road between Okondjatu and Okakarara and the one between Okahandja and Okondjatu.
“We are also waiting for the Namibia Training Authority, which has allocated N$100 million for the construction of a hospitality centre in Okakarara. So maybe, if some of these projects get started, they will serve as a turbine to turn around the belt for other activities to come on board,” Kandorozu said.
Like in the rest of the country, access to housing and land remains a contentious issue in the constituency, as there is no money to service plots.
Kandorozu added that a businessman was allocated three hectares at Okondjatu last year for the construction of an accommodation facility and a service station. -Nampa
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