WALVIS Bay mayor Trevino Forbes and members of the municipal council addressed the city’s yard tenants on land allocation plans on Wednesday.
The tenants have been informed the municipality would embark on a two-week registration strategy of yard tenants, to begin in April.
The goal is to find out the variety of yard tenants who’re in want of land when the officers go to houses within the Kuisebmond and Narraville areas.
“The method will likely be divided into totally different sectors. The officers will write down home numbers and decide how many individuals are renting shacks at each home. We’ll give land pretty. We won’t have a state of affairs the place teams are all from the identical location or all members are kin. We don’t need to hear tales about totally different lists. It’s as much as the council and central authorities to supply all the essential wants. We should work collectively,” mentioned Forbes.
The primary 50 residents will likely be moved to farm 37 exterior Walvis quickly, and residents have been asking why solely that variety of folks have been chosen.
Forbes mentioned members of the group have been already issued occupation certificates by the central authorities in 2020, on the identical time 50 residents of the Otweya casual settlement obtained their certificates.
“We discovered that group on the system after we entered workplace. When they’re settled, the council may have a mannequin of proceed with the following teams. We’ll then see what we nonetheless want. Any mission must be approached with warning.
“There are solely fundamental providers at farm 37, however extra will come regularly. We’ll do issues in an orderly method. It’s going to trigger issues if we transfer in a giant group now, however we are going to repeatedly transfer folks. Don’t be fearful. There’s sufficient land. We’ll talk frequently.”
Tenants who attended the assembly mentioned that they have been happy with the data obtained.
“It’s good that we’re knowledgeable. It makes issues simpler, as a result of with out data, we won’t know what is occurring and we are going to proceed having demonstrations. I had questions in regards to the first 50 folks to be relocated, however now I additionally perceive,” mentioned tenant Ehafo Ndengu.
“We’re eagerly ready to be registered. Some folks have been dwelling in backyards for years, and others are simply coming and getting homes. We actually want to learn from this plan,” mentioned one other tenant, Ndamono Magano.
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