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"Learn From Ours", Gweru & Harare Warn Bulawayo Against 'Commissions-Run' Councils

4 years agoTue, 30 Jul 2019 07:50:05 GMT
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"Learn From Ours", Gweru & Harare Warn Bulawayo Against 'Commissions-Run' Councils

Residents from Gweru and Harare have warned Bulawayo residents and those lobbying for commissions to run the council affairs that they are inviting danger.

Their warning comes at a time when some Bulawayo residents are calling for the suspension of sitting councillors so that the local authority’s affairs can be run by a commission.

The Ministry of Local Government has revealed that a commission would be instituted to run the city if councillors, who are currently under investigation, are convicted of corruption charges raised against them.

Gweru Residents and Ratepayers Association chairperson, Cornelius Selipiwe, said that it was difficult to make commissions accountable. Selipiwe said:

In Gweru, immediately after appointment the commission took money and bought laptops. They then went to Holiday Inn in Bulawayo where they were booked for several days being trained on how to use computers.

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This was almost US$30 000 spent. That money could have bought at least two refuse collection trucks for the people to benefit from.

These commissions are not answerable to the residents. They don’t reside in our communities hence they can never understand our plight.

Combined Harare Residents Association programmes officer, Rueben Akili, conceded that commissions were essential where there are misunderstandings between residents and the local authority as the case is with Bulawayo right now.

He, however, warned that it was difficult to get rid of them even when they would have accomplished their missions saying it took Harare seven court cases to boot them out.

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