NCDC looks at investments

THE National Capital District Commission (NCDC) is considering going into investments to help boost its revenue, says Governor Powes Parkop.
“We now have no business investment in the city to generate revenue and provide more services to the people. All provincial governments have investments, except us,” he added.
“Our annual budget now is below K300 million and is mostly generated from the Goods and Services Tax’s (GST) through the Internal Revenue Commission. We also have other revenues like the land rates and garbage collections. However, 90 per cent of our revenue is from GST,” Parkop said.
He said: “The city’s population is believed to be about one million as the last census conducted about 10 years ago was about 500,000 (or half a million).
“My other concern is car parks. Our board has passed a resolution to implement car parking tolls and charges. I don’t know how far the board has gone on this, but it is absolutely the challenge for the future to build more car parks.”
Parkop said that the new Gordon’s Market would open soon and that “we have tendered for the market management and tender closed on March 22”.
“So we will soon appoint the market management, he said.
“I am also concerned about the makeshift market outside the Gordon police barracks which is unhygienic due to the overflow of sewage. I have raised it so many times with Eda Ranu. They fix it but it gets clogged again, and again.”
Parkop also said the NCDC could not relocate the Closed Circuit TV security surveillance system that had been been blocked by the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation billboard. “Those CCTVs have not been allocated to us yet. And I don’t know who is responsible for them,” he added.