Contractors working on the Eneas Peter Nanyemba road project said they are facing challenges that are delaying their completion of the road renovation programme. 

 A site agent for Welwitchia Construction cc, Sam Angula, told NBC News that vendors keep operating in the working area of the constructed road that is being cleared, making it difficult for them to do their work and progress on the project. 

"We find that our tools are being stolen from the site, the reinforcement steel is being stolen, and other things we use are being stolen overnight. We are also facing the challenge with people living within the work area who need to be relocated to a new location that is allocated to them; we still have people who are in the pipeline who are going to Ongos, so we are unable to proceed with the work at the speed we intend." 

Angula added that they continuously have to clean the road as vendors leave rubbish on the construction area.

Some local mechanics have started repairing vehicles on the road, and unsightly oil spillages are observed on the new tarmac.  
A local vendor, Martha Julius, explained why they've resorted to throwing rubbish on the road. 

"There was a dustbin here, but they took it away. People are now putting the waste there because there is no dustbin. We don't know where to put the rubbish, unless there should be a truck to come pick up the waste and dump it."

Julius rejected suggestions for the vendors to move to Ongos, saying there are no customers there. 
He added that they were promised construction of an open market, which has to date seen no progress. 
Julia Mungodjo serves on the committee for the Havana Fourway Vendors. 

"We have a problem, and we have already signed the papers. The residents with the houses behind here were told to move to Ongos, but they refused, and they were given time until the 31st of November 2025 so that we can move where they are and give space for contractors to work. Where are we going now? How are we going to buy our kids dictionaries if this is the only way we survive?"

Despite contractors' efforts to block off the road to allow for unhindered construction, locals still find ways to access it – even removing obstructions put up. 

The project is set in two phases, the first of which kicked off in 2021 and progressed to phase two in 2023.
It was to be completed in 2024 but is delayed.