Perpetua Murungweni
Masvingo National Constitutional Assembly (NCA), Masvingo urban ward 1 aspiring candidate Vengai Hove says he wants to take up the stand in the council because both Zanu PF and then MDC failed the ward as they have been taking turns to represent it.
Speaking to TellZim News Hove said ward 1 needs someone who comes from a poor background like him because he understands people’s problems more.
“I have decided to contest as a councilor because I feel there is misrepresentation of the ward because all previous councilors represented those in their classes leaving us the poor out,”
“If given a chance I intend to push for the completion of the main sewer system project that started in 2002 and has since been since abandoned. The population is increasing and sewer pipes burst every day,” said Hove.
Hove said as a youth who has been involved in sport, he knows the importance of recreational facilities to other youths so he was going to advocate for renovations of these facilities.
“I am going advocate for the renovation of recreational facilities such as Mamutse, Mucheke stadiums, Mucheke Hall swimming pool and many others. I don’t see any reason why the swimming pool is not working, the pool was abandoned, it does not take much money to maintain but the council is failing,” said Hove.
He also says if elected he is going to make efforts to address the issue of water meters because the meters are old and need to be replaced,”
“Most of the water meters in ward 1 are old and are no longer working properly and because of this council now use estimates which results in residents being overcharged,” Hove said.
He promised to push for roads in ward 1 to be repaired and tarred since most of them are gravel in bad shape.
“If elected, I am also going towards rehabilitation of dust roads especially roads here in ward 1 most of them are not tarred and this affects refuse collection because refuse trucks will be avoiding them,” said Hove.
Hove is contesting against five other candidates namely Sabina Chikwangwani of CCC, Nabioth Magwizi of Zanu, Edmond Maruta who is independent, Justen Paradza of Democratic Union of Zimbabwe (DUZ), Pf and Regis Matafini contesting on Zvido Zvevanhu People’s Party (ZZPP) ticket.
