…urges supporters not to vote for incompetent leaders
TellZim reporter
Citizens Coalition for Changer leader Nelson Chamisa has warned elected councillors to desist from corrupt activities to fatten their pockets and improve own lives at the expense of rate payers.
Chamisa made the call during a Thank You rally at Mucheke stadium on August 14 where he was thanking supporters for the party’s resounding victory in March 26 by-elections in which they scooped all the four wards that were vacant in Masvingo urban.
Chamisa called the three councillors namely Rocky Kamuzonda of ward 3, Alec Tabe of ward 4, and Richard Musekiwa of ward 7, who were present with the fourth one being Daniel Mberikunashe of ward 5 who was not at the rally before telling them to desist from corrupt activities at council.
“You must not go to council to fill your stomachs or to be allocated stands for your personal benefit. You must make sure you deliver to the people who elected you into office.
“As CCC, we urge the electorate to recall all those elected individuals who pursue personal gains at the expense of rate payers. If an elected representative does not come back to the people who elected him/her, then just recall that person. We do not want a situation whereby one is elected; vanishes only to resurface during election time. I urge you to rebuke those leaders who appear in their constituencies or wards once a year like Christmas holiday,” urged Chamisa.
The call by Chamisa comes at a time tongues are waging in Masvingo with corrupt tendencies being alleged towards some of the political outfit’s new councillors whose life styles dramatically changed for the better barely five months after their coming into office.
Wards 3 and 4 councillors Rocky Kamuzonda and Aleck Tabe are now driving Isuzu double cab and Toyota D4D Hilux single cab respectively though the two dismissed any corruption allegations saying they had own hustles that enabled them to purchase such vehicles.
The two councillors denied having been involved in any shoddy deal but sources claimed that the two were given residential stands in the leafy suburb of Rhodene though local authority statutes say they should get stands in their wards.
Tabe’s wife is alleged to have gone to the Town Clerk with a marriage certificate querying how council gave her husband a stand without her knowledge.
