ONGWEDIVA - The road running between the two malls next to the B1 main road in Ongwediva is finally being reconstructed.

The road, which has been full of potholes for more than a year, has been under construction for the past few months. The reconstruction project is expected to be completed by November.

Ongwediva mayor Taarah Shalyefu highlighted during his budget speech in May that the council reserved N$4.5 million to rehabilitate this road.

“Before the reconstruction, we had been receiving complaints from citizens about the condition of the road. The contractor started some time back in July, and we are hopeful that by the end of November, they will be done with the road,” he said recently. Shalyefu maintained that the contractor will finish work before the end of the year. His office also awarded a tender for the construction of streetlights at the Hifikepunye Pohamba campus, while other streetlights were erected from the Valombola Vocational Training Centre up to the Unam Engineering campus.

The mayor thus urged members of the public to respect all road signs, and for taxi drivers to use the detour road to the malls to avoid traffic congestion.

“Citizens are violating road signs by writing on them, and these signs are very expensive,” complained Shalyefu.