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Botswana: No New Traffic Enumerators, Sello

Monkagedi Gaotlhobogwe

15 September 2008

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Acting director of roads, Jacob Sello, says his department has not hired new traffic enumerators to replace the 45 they recently laid off.

Sello's comment comes at a time when traffic enumerators have been posted at Gaborone traffic circles as well as in Lobatse and other parts of the country.

In Gaborone, the enumerators can be spotted in the morning hours around the traffic circles. The presence of the manual traffic enumerators on the roads have angered the road's department workers who were in July stripped of this responsibility when the department announced that computers can do the job better.

Concerned workers on Friday complained that the visibility of traffic enumerators on the roads could be an indication that the department has hired consultants for a job they found unnecessary.

The acting director said they have nothing to do with the presence of traffic enumerators on the roads. He said as far as he was aware, consultants have been engaged for the design of several roads in the country, adding that those consultants have been hired by local and central government.

Sello said his staff also does manual counting of cars on the road.

"We have not appointed anyone directly to do manual counting of traffic for the roads department. The people you are referring to are not doing the job for us. Our manual traffic counting remains halted. At the moment we are still determining, ministry level, how we can re-designate the workers to new responsibilities," the acting director of roads said.

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