adminWar of words erupts over water shedding
Chronicle Reporter
A war of words has erupted over the Bulawayo City Council’s water shedding programme between the city’s Mayor, Councillor Thaba Moyo, and Bulawayo United Residents Association (Bura) chairperson, Mr Winos Dube.
The local authority announced that with effect from Friday, it would be embarking on a tight water shedding schedule that would see residential areas going without water for 24 hours, twice a week.
In a story carried in yesterday’s Chronicle, Mr Dube verbally roasted the city’s councillors, saying their leadership credentials were questionable.
He said their failure to carry out conti-ngency measures like keeping the bore-holes at Nyamandlovu Aquifer running and duplicating the Insiza pipeline had led to the crisis that necessitated shedding.
He attacked the council, after Minister of Finance, Tendai Biti, in his Mid-Term Budget Review, said the local authority had failed to use about $6 million availed by Treasury to rehabilitate water infrastruc-ture, until the money was sent back.
Clr Moyo responded to the tongue lash-ing yesterday with a verbal salvo of his own.
“Mr Dube must go to hell many times over. He is speaking from a position of ignorance. Instead of fighting with council, why does he not push the Ministry of Water Resources, Management and Development to complete the National Matabeleland Zambezi Water Project (NMZWP) or the Mtshabezi pipe-link that has actually led to this state of affairs?” asked Clr Moyo.
He said the views in the story were those of a person who had contributed nothing to the development of the city in his entire life.
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