NDP5 draft due this month The logistics sector is putting the final touches to its contribution to the fifth National Development Plan. This is according to the director of transport regulation in the Ministry of Works and Transport, Cedric Limbo.The transport sector''s importance is coming under review yet again in the fifth National Development Plan.
“Under NDP4, the idea was that the transport sector would have a key impact on other sectors not mentioned in the development plan. NDP5 will behave in the same way,” Limbo says.
“Some sectors did not really fully participate in realising the goals of the fourth National Development Plan. There will be deliberate action to force you to participate. This is a national development plan, we need to adhere to it.
“The government will take a deliberate action to tell you to look at our corridor routes,” he adds, suggesting that transport corridors are under-utilised.
“We are already in the fifth National Development Plan. We will adopt the same approach we had with the fourth development plan. There will be bold and aggressive decisions taken. We want to increase the implementation rate [of our projects].”
According to him, Namibia needs to look at alternatives to road transport.
“If we do not look at rail, it will have a knock-on effect on our roads,” he says.
Limbo says President Hage Geingob wants to have the development plan ready by March 2017.
“The final draft is due in November. The president wants to do the launch by March 2017. Come hell or high water, we need to finish it.”
OGONE TLHAGE