By Itai Muzondo
The Masvingo City Council (MCC) has ammended its five year strategic plan in order to incorporate some Zim Asset clusters, Tell Zimbabwe has learnt.
According to the documents seen by this publication, a week-long workshop was held in Beitbridge – about 300 kilometers south of Masvingo last week with city fathers, council officials and some residents discussing on how they can come up with a strategic plan from 2015 – 2019 which aligns to the Zim Asset.
Masvingo Residents Trust (MRT) chairperson, Prosper Tiringindi who attended the workshop in Beitbridge however, welcomed the move by the council to involve residents on issues that affect them.
“This is a positive step by our council to work with the community as stakeholder participation is critical and as M.R.T we welcome the development and will work towards implementation of such projects”, said Tiringindi.
Part of Masvingo city’s CBD
The plan emphasis on service delivery by council. Specific areas that needed improvement include water supply from 24 to 60 mega liters, road networks from 10% to 15% and accessibility of maternity services from 34% to 99% by year ending 2019.
The City Mayor Hubert Fidze told Tell Zimbabwe that the council will work hard to implement the strategic plan. He however, said financial problems remained a major threat challenge.
“We promise residence that we will work hard to meet these goals though financial problems continue to haunt us”, said Fidze.
The strategic meeting came amid challenges that 90% of residents experience water rationing for 12 hours per day, 80% of the roads are potholed and there has been a delay in implementation of prepaid parking in C.B.D to curb congestion whereas 67% of expecting mothers do not have access to maternity services in their neighbourhood as there is lack of maternity services in new neighbourhoods.
Masvingo United Residents and Ratepayer’s Association coordinator Anoziva Muguti was not available for comment.Local
