Drainage, security concerns affecting city residents will be addressed -President Ali

The Head of State also told the residents of plans to roll out a number of programmes across the country next year which will benefit every community.

“…I have already committed that we are going to start a programme to light every post across the country. Every single community, every single street because I know how significant it is in solving crime and preventing crime,” President Ali stated.

“We are also going to have every community on the Safe Country Programme…In every community we will have the expansion of the camera system to be integrated with the national camera network,” he said.

The visit is the first of a series which President Ali said he will be conducting in communities across the country as part of his commitment made during the Local Government elections campaign.

“…One of the things about development is the macro things at the macro level are transformational in a sense that they create the type of shift in the economy and opportunities at the macro level but sometimes at the community level you need to do a lot of work also to enhance the living conditions and the standards at the community level,” the President explained.

The President was accompanied by newly elected constituency representative, Alfonso De Armas and a team from the Ministry of Public Works headed by Minister Deodat Indar.