Rutendo Chirume
Chiredzi Town Council has encouraged residents and rate payers to clear their outstanding debts which stood at ZWL103 000 000 as at October 31, 2021.
Council chairperson Cllr Gibson Hwende announced the debt earlier last year (2021) when he urged residents to settle their dues so that council can be in a better position to work towards growth and development of the town.
“The councils’ debt stands at ZWL103 000 000 as of October 2021. While council is engaged in coming up with the strategies that can be employed to recover the amounts due to the local authority, we urge the residents and rate payers to be forth coming in settling their dues. The growth, development and performance of council are hinged on its ability to collect revenue and apply it to service delivery that the community requires. Let us work together to extinguish this outstanding debt and see the vision of our town,” said Hwende.
He also confirmed the carrying out of the systems audit on October 11 and 12 by the parent ministry of local government which he said went on smoothly.
“We received officials from Ministry on the 11th and 12th of October for system audit. This is an exercise done by our parent Ministry to ascertain whether our processes and operations are in sync with expectations from the Ministry,” said Hwende.
