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Sikhumbuzo Moyo
A Total of 600 security guards will be needed to adequately provide security at the Nyamandlovu Aquifer borehole sites, Bulawayo town clerk Mr Christopher Dube has said.
Mr Dube was responding to an inquiry by City Deputy Mayor Councillor Edwin Ndlovu who had asked if Council was deploying security guards at Nyamandlovu Aquifer. He asked how vandalism was taking place in the presence of Council security guards. Cllr Ndlovu emphasised that the Council as a beneficiary, should take measures to increase the security of the boreholes.
Mr Dube said boreholes should have new water pumping technology and that all the stakeholders, Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa), Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa) and BCC should provide security.
“If Council was to guard the whole of , 600 guards would be required which was beyond Council’s financial capacity,” said Mr Dube, according to the latest council minutes.
Council Chamber Secretary, Mrs Sikhangele Zhou said at the moment there were only five council security guards and one supervisor who did not have the capacity to guard all the 77 boreholes since they were dotted around the Aquifer.
“ZINWA and ZESA are expected to add on to security to safeguard the pumps and transformers at the Aquifer. The infrastructure at the aquifer belonged to ZINWA and the Council was complementing ZINWA security. Farmers benefiting from the boreholes were requested to provide security on a voluntary basis. Out of the 77 boreholes, only 25 were operational and BCC guards were only stationed at five posts of the operational boreholes,” said Mrs Zhou. (@The Chronicle)
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