Chitungwiza adopts 5 policies

Lovemore Meya Herald Correspondent
Chitungwiza Municipality has adopted five policies aimed at ensuring that service delivery improves through clear guidelines on how its workers ought to perform.

The policies include waste management, credit control and debt collection, Information Communication Technology (ICT), internal audit charter and audit committee charter. Each policy was proposed at departmental level and has a framework on how council business should be run.

All the policies were approved on Thursday last week during a 7th caretaker council meeting. Presenting a report on health, acting director of health services, Mr Herbert Chirowodza sought consent from the commission running the affairs of Chitungwiza to adopt the waste management policy.

“We have one recommendation which we are requesting council to adopt,” said Mr Chirowodza. “The recommendation is that council adopts the waste management policy. It has become necessary that the municipality develops a waste management policy to guide it in ensuring that we have a litter free town.

“The policy will provide a framework which ensures that the management of waste complies with all regulatory and statutory requirements and that the best practice guidelines are developed, implemented and maintained as much as is reasonably practical.”

Mr Chirowodza said the policy outlined the systems of work that would enable the organisation and its individuals to ensure that all waste was disposed of correctly, without endangering human health and using processes or methods which could harm the environment.

“The aim of this policy is to provide instructions on the classification, management, training and audit with respect to waste management,” he said. The caretaker commission led by chairperson Mr Madzudzo Pawadyira adopted the policy. This was followed by the adoption of four more policies.

The ICT policy will ensure that the infrastructure and capacity in that area are utilised effectively and are in alignment with the municipality’s strategic objectives. Credit control and debt collection policy will ensure that all the money due and payable to the municipality in respect of rates, service charges, interest and other charges, which accrued on any amounts due and payable, were collected efficiently and promptly.

The internal audit charter and the audit committee charter act as prescription for the auditors and are there as a point of reference, spelling out the power of auditors, where they report and how they operate.