Tell Reporter
The people in Masvingo are living in perpetual fear of a serious disease outbreak! It has become an open secret that the Masvingo city council is failing to provide sanitary facilities at critical areas dotted around the city.
Whenever we talk about health issues in the city, places such as the popular Chitima market, Garikai/Hlalani Kuhle area, Exor Service station, Mucheke bus terminus and Runyararo West suburbs easily come to mind. These places need an urgent attention of the responsible authorities especially now when we are approaching the rainy season.
As it is today, one is tempted to think that the municipality does not have a health department. I want to believe that the council has since abolished a health department and therefore, there is need to plead with the responsible authority to urgently set up a department that deals with health issues in Masvingo. I don’t want to think that such a department exist at our council because that would be a big scandal downplayed. Why would someone get paid to keep Masvingo dirty?
If someone insist that there is health department at our council then I will be persuaded to think that whoever heads the department is sleeping on duty. This article should therefore come as a wakeup call to the responsible authorities to intervene and provide sanitary facilities at public places in Masvingo.
Uncollected garbage now an eyesore in Masvingo
It is disturbing to realize that there are no public toilets at Chitima flea market and yet the responsible authorities collect money from vendors at the said flea market on daily basis. I think its atrocious to collect money for nearly a decade now and ignore the concerns of the affected vendors? I am informed that the municipality collect money from the flea market on daily basis and I dont want to think that they are collecting over US$ 1000 from desperate vendors every day. Lets learn to do the right thing so that we remain respected. Can someone tell me that the council is failing to raise some money to erect even a blair toilet at Chitima.
The council is putting the health of both vendors and their clients at risk. Thousands of people flock to this market everyday but some people have decided to leave the place to operate without sanitary facilities. We just need to be more serious and make sure that we don’t take the people’s lives for granted.
Just recently, the outspoken Masvingo Residents Trust (MRT) chairperson Prosper Tiringindi urged the council to consider changing its rubbish dumping site. I want to thank Tiringindi for fighting for the people’s rights.
The council should not wait for Tiringindi to cry for them to take action. The people in Runyararo West and Victoria Ranch are sitting on a health time bomb. There are flies all over due to the rubbish being dumped a few meters away from their houses.
We don’t want to wait for either MRT or Masvingo United Residents and Ratepayers Association (MURRA) to hold a demonstration over lack of sanitary facilities at the EXOR fuel service station for the council to take action. We must have a responsible council which can take action before pressure groups complain over certain issues.
I have just pointed at a few critical points that need urgent intervention but as I see it ladies and gentlemen, we just need the council with its publics at heart. Let’s keep Masvingo clean to avoid Cholera outbreak. As it is today, Masvingo is sitting on health time bomb!!Local
