The Road Fund Administration has increased its budget for road infrastructure for local authorities from N$160 million to N$430 million in this financial year.

Speaking during a ground-breaking ceremony on the Auas Road in Windhoek , the Chief Executive Officer of the Road Fund Administration, Ali Ipinge, explained why they increased the funding. 

"This year, funding was increased and reinforced to about N$430 million, starting in financial, and this is really to assist our local authorities to maintain their roads, to decongest, particularly the key arterial roads. And I believe this is the value that the RFA and certainly those that are contributing to the Road Fund, that is, the road users will find it prudent or find it that the money has been prudently spent and invested in the key sections."

With a number of road upgrade projects currently underway in the country, the Minister of Works and Transport, John Mutorwa, emphasised the importance of administrators expediting paperwork to avoid congestion and unnecessary delays in finishing road construction.

"Therefore, my plea, which I reiterating here, is for the administrators, the planners, the funders, and those that deal with procurement, when you do the procurement, do the procurement, having in mind that we need to move faster without ignoring any law. They are also available. But what I'm saying is that our plans in the offices must correspond to the reality that we must address if the reality demands that we move faster to avoid more problems that can come. We must do so—not business as usual, just looking at the papers. I will do it tomorrow. I'm glad that at least we are attending to this one, because very soon that whole stretch up will be open, and I don't want people to get bogged with the four kilometres here."