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Municipal Reporter
Chaotic CCC-led Harare City Council yet again failed to convene a full council meeting yesterday, which was cancelled at the last minute despite having a full quorum.
A full council should be held every month with councilors expected to resolve critical decisions for the city but the local authority is yet to conduct the meeting for June.
The meeting was initially scheduled for Tuesday last week but moved to yesterday at 11 am and rescheduled again for noon before it was eventually cancelled.
As infighting and divisions continue to reign supreme among the opposition councillors some could be heard fuming over the cancellation of the meeting at the eleventh hour blaming the mayor for being incompetent.
However, Harare Mayor Jacob Mafume said the decision to cancel the meeting was necessitated by the need to make the Finance Committee sit and deliberate on inflation volatility.
“Instead of doing a special meeting to tackle issues of finance separately we thought it prudent to just let the finance committee sit first and we then convene the full council meeting,” he said.
Mayor Mafume said some city suppliers were hinting on possible failure to deliver goods due to the volatility of the local currency. A councillor who spoke on condition of anonymity to this publication fumed over the decision to cancel the meeting.
“The mayor is taking us for a ride. Surely how can we fail to have a full council meeting yet it is supposed to be convened monthly.
“We are not full-time employees here but just policy makers who have other things to do in life than for us to come here and be told that the meeting is cancelled,” said the councillor.
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