Executive Mayor Eugene Johnson kicks off service delivery roadshow
Published: February 10, 2022<< BACK TO NEWS
On Wednesday, 09 February, 2022 the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality Executive Mayor, Councillor Eugene Johnson started her Service Delevery and Soca Development outreach programme in Kariega.
The programme seeks to unlock service delivery challenges in relation to water leaks, sewage blockages, potholes, electricity outages as well as road safety and by law enforcement.
The programme will also focus on support and partnerships with NGOs that care for the vulnerable, like elderly and children.
As part of this programme today, February 10, 2022 the Executive Mayor will be working in Motherwell. In all these visits to different areas across the City, she will be accompanied by relevant MMCs and municipal, depending the challenges and profiling of the area to be visited.
The Executive Mayor will take a rapid response approach where officials will be instructed to solve service delivery at the quickest turnaround time.
"We can not pretend that the situation of our people is normal. The conditions they live in are a shame on us. This is a critical part of my 100 days programme. Water leaks must be fixed quickly, our people must not leave with raw sewage running down the streets, our roads must be fixed. This is what we committed to and we must delivery without fail," Executive Mayor Johnson said.
Part of 100 days focus area was consolidating relations and partnerships with business with the intention to grow the economy and create jobs. On Tuesday, the Executive Mayor and the Nelson Mandela Business Chamber went on a industrial area service delivery oversight in Dealparty. The oversight visit was meant to identify infrastructural challenges faced faced by the businesses operating in the Dealparty industrial zone.
"For a City to work, business to thrive and for its people to prosper, we need a wholistic coordinated approach. We are encouraged that business is committed to such an approach. We now have to do our part, for us to recover from the COVID-19 economic melt down," added Executive Mayor Johnson.
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