Tanyaradzwa Tizora
Masvingo Urban Constituency’s 2024 Constituency Development Fund (CDF) will be directed towards water provision in the city through drilling of boreholes and aiding council’s for water augmentation project.
This was revealed during a strategic meeting by the CDF committee, that was established in October this year, held at Downtown Harvest House Church building where a number of projects were proposed for funding through CDF.
The committee noted that CDF was supposed to be used for borehole drilling projects, council water augmentation, bigger toilets and market stalls at Chitima market and a community hall for ward 4 and the MP advocate Martin Mureri said the fund was not allowed to be used for income generating projects.
“In Masvingo Urban, we shall embark on borehole drilling projects, we shall do the costing and determine the number of boreholes to be sunk per ward before we embark on the second project. We need to construct bigger toilets and market stalls and we also need to renovate Mucheke Old People’s Home.
“The fund has a clear task and it falls within the auspices of development of the constituency. Income generating projects are no longer allowed under the CDF act,” said Mureri.
Other critical areas that were noted for consideration were street lights, renovations at critical areas the charity homes.
The committee also noted that there was need for the construction of classroom blocks at Rujeko secondary school in ward 7 and Hillside Primary School in ward 6.
The constituency development committee comprises of teachers unions, SDC, Churches, Health ,Music and Arts, Disabled and disadvantaged, Senior Citizens, Alderman cluster, Students , Youths, Women, Informal traders, Business persons, Resident associations, Civic society, Mayor and the Deputy Mayor.
