The City of Windhoek’s (CoW) acting chief executive officer, George Mayumbelo, has said the City cannot control the influx of about 10 000 people, who move to the city every year for better opportunities. Mayumbelo made these remarks here on Monday during the approved annual budget presentation for the 2021/22 financial year while addressing the media on the land grabbing problems CoW is facing. The budget was presented to the public after being approved by the Ministry of Urban and Rural Development. Mayumbelo said the land problems, especially in the informal settlements, is caused by the influx of people migrating from other towns and rural areas to the city every year to seek better opportunities like education, jobs, and businesses because the capital offers those opportunities better than any other town in the country. Therefore, if other towns can offer the same opportunities then the pressure on Windhoek would be less. “There is a high influx to Windhoek because of our performance, which is good. What we are doing helps businesses to thrive, if what is happening here was happening elsewhere, where people see opportunities for example like Walvis Bay then they would stay there. I don’t want to embarrass other towns, but there are towns in the country where people are only living and they don’t see anything else,” said Mayumbelo. He added that the City is capable of addressing the land issue, but resources are scarce. Therefore, other towns should step up and create opportunities for their residents which will, in turn, ease the pressure on the city because people will not move to Windhoek in search of the same services they can get in their own towns. CoW Strategic Executive for Finance and Customer Service, Jenny Comalie presented the approved budget of over N.dollars 500 million, which will be divided among various departments in the CoW, and N.dollars 55 million of the budget will go towards the Informal Settlement Upgrading of Affordable Housing Pilot Project which includes land servicing.