Bulawayo City Council budget to get Ministerial nod today

Sikhumbuzo Moyo

THE Minister of Local Government and Public Works Daniel Garwe has said his Ministry will approve the Bulawayo City Council budget today.

Addressing members of the media after marathon meetings with members of the Bulawayo business community represented by the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (Matabeleland Chapter) and Bulawayo councillors and management, Minister Garwe said he tasked a three-member committee made of his ministry’s chief finance director, a finance expert from the CZI and the local authority’s director of finance, to immediately start working on the grey areas raised by the two parties and present a position today.

“As we speak right now, this committee has already started working on the grey areas and once they are done, which must be today by the way, we will approve the city’s budget,” said Minister Garwe who was in the company of his Deputy Albert Mavhunga, Deputy Minister of Industry and Commerce Raj Modi as well as the Local Government and Public Works chief director Ms Khonzani Ncube.