Beverly Bizeki
Zanu PF Masvingo North ward 10 candidate Sengerayi Manyanga is confident of a clean sweep in the August 23 election saying he is the people’s favorite candidate claiming that he facilitated for a number of developments including drilling boreholes and establishing a mobile clinic.
Manyanga (36) is running for a second term in office and is hopeful that he will win the elections where he will be contesting against Citizens’ Coalition for Change (CCC) candidate Alan Moyo.
Manyanga has said in his second term he wants to facilitate for the construction of a primary and secondary school in his ward saying the population had increased and there was no council schools in the area.
“When I get in office, I have realized that there is no primary school in our area so I want to lobby for council schools, a primary and secondary school, to serve ward 9 and 10,”
“We want to bring development to the low density areas too like what is being done in the high density areas,” said Manyanga.
Manyanga also said he intends to facilitate for improvement of road network in Eastvale and clean water for the residents.
“We want a good road network system in our ward since it is a low density area. I need to make sure that residents get uninterrupted water supply and to compliment council efforts I will make sure that we have more boreholes in the area,” said Manyanga.
Manyanga also said he will lobby for the construction of a safe market for the women in his ward which he said was one of the key missing things.
“There is no fruit and vegetable safe market for women to conduct business so we want to see to it that a market is constructed in the area.
“We also want to establish shopping malls in Eastvale land is available at Amina Shoping center. There are only beer halls and we have to buy bread in town so I will have that problem fixed,” said Manyanga.
“There have been water challenges in the ward since it is peri urban I am aware because I grew up in that area and we would travel for about 7 kilometers to fetch water in town which was burdensome.
“We have drilled two boreholes at 4’1 infantry brigade using ward development funds whereby one is electrified and the other one has a bush pump since we were starting to have electricity challenges.
“We have also drilled two boreholes at 4 Brigade and one at Zimuto camp we drilled another borehole with funding from the presidential borehole scheme and ZINWA did the work.
“There is another one drilled at the ministry of transport complex with input from ZINWA and I chipped in with 200 litres of fuel,” said Manyanga.
Using the same ward development fund, Manyanga said he has also facilitated for the construction of a fish pond at 4 brigade.
“We have also constructed a 20 x 20 fish pond at 4 brigade using ward development fund and as we speak we are harvesting fish that we got from Zimbabwe parks and wildlife department,”
“Soon we will be constructing another fish pond at 4:1 using the remainder of the ward development fund,” said Manyanga.
Manyanga has also said he was responsible for the establishment of a mobile clinic in Eastvale.
“There is no clinic in Eastvale since 1980 so we have come up with a mobile clinic where we took a container that came from Germany and turned it into a mobile clinic. People relied on the provincial hospital which is a bit far. Now people have access to health facilities from Monday to Saturday,” said Manyanga.
He said people had confidence in him as he has been available during his tenure and assisted people from all walks of life which he did without looking at one’s political affiliation.
“I believe people will vote for me because of the projects that I have done despite political affiliations,”
“I have also been popular for coming up with a ward development committee because I cannot do it all alone without the help of technocrats in planning and executing ward development projects,” said Manyanga.
