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Power
struggles at Town House destroying Harare
Combined Harare
Residents Association (CHRA)
February 17, 2006
THE
Combined Harare Residents Association remains worried with the nature
of governance at Town House. Factions allegedly aligned to the dismissed
‘city turn around strategist’ Chester Mhende and controversial Town
Clerk Nomutsa Chideya, have engaged in a war of words and consolidation
of power, instead of attending to the immediate needs of residents.
The
illegitimate commission chaired by Sekesai Makwawarara has failed
to run Harare. They ignored the objections raised by residents before
the 2006 budget could be implemented. Residents are living in abject
poverty and under risky health conditions because money meant for
key projects to turn around the city is going towards paying these
illegal commissioners.
These
factions have contributed to the destruction of roads, to the neglect
of burst sewer pipes, to the treatment of our water and to the repair
of malfunctioning street lights. Instead Makwawarara wants to renovate
the mayoral mansion she is least qualified to dwell in. She is thinking
of buying curtains to furnish that mansion when over 700 000 people
were left homeless and without any livelihood during Operation Murambatsvina.
They
do not have anywhere to live; neither do they have any ‘legal’ sources
of income.
CHRA
demands that Karimanzira and Chombo should immediately act on the
power struggles at town house before residents take the law into
their own hands.
Elections
to choose our legitimate representatives should be held soonest
if the disasters unfolding in the capital are to be averted. We
need a mayor to run Harare. We need councillors to represent our
interests.
Visit the CHRA
fact sheet
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