NTFONJENI – Done and dusted.
Despite the recent sporadic protests that had threatened to delay ongoing community projects, government has successfully completed the construction of an E1.2 million veterinary office at Ntfonjeni. In this regard, residents here will no longer have to travel to far places in order to access veterinary services for their animals.
In fact, services including livestock movement permits (Emapasi), livestock information updates, and veterinary doctors will now be accessible in this new center.
Eswatini Positive News had previously reported that prior, the residents were forced to travel to either Mayiwane or Pigg’s Peak in order to access vet services and that came with extra costs.
The constituency has a record of over 2 000 farmers and 19 dip tanks. The farmers each contributed E70, raising around E140 000 for the construction of the new structure.
In a recent interview, Banele Shabangu, an Animal Health Inspector employed by the Ministry of Agriculture and was based in the constituency, said the construction of the vet office was one of government’s decentralization programs seeking to help farmers. He said the project was necessitated by the fact that farmers up north were faced with challenges each time they wanted to access vet services. He said these challenges included traveling costs and a poor network sometimes.
“Following these challenges, the farmers agreed to contribute E70 each to raise the 10 percent required for project funding. Luckily, E140 000 was raised and the project got approved. Microproject estimated that the construction of the vet office would cost E1.2 million,” he said. Meanwhile, Ntfonjeni Member of Parliament Sifiso Sompisi Magagula said, “As the constituency council, we celebrate each time a project is successful because we record development. The residents are happy and we are ready for the offices to be complete so that we can start benefiting,”
