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Ivan Zhakata and Takawira Photoveteran Dapi
IRATE residents of Glen Norah are pleading to Zanu PF and President Mnangagwa to rescue them from the opposition-led council, which is allocating residential stands in the middle of tarred roads in the neighbourhood.
The CCC-led council has pegged residential stands along Marange Crescent in the Chitubu area near Anglican church much to the anger of the residents.
The disgruntled residents have since pleaded with Zanu PF to liberate them from what they said was a foreign-formed, funded and steered political council meant to cause disorder in the city.
“President Mnangagwa and Zanu PF must come back to practically change the council,” said a local resident.
“How can a councillor who was renting in a kitchen be voted in and within three years get a residential stand, finish building?
“We are told that he also built a house in his village in Masvingo, put in electricity and hired a bus for people to go and officially open his rural home.
“If the council is saying that it does not have money and is failing to collect garbage and provide safe clean water continuously, where are they getting the money which they are using to acquire residential stands?
We are pleading with President Mnangagwa to help us before the situation gets worse.”
Another irate resident Ms Chiedza Chimutai had no kind words to the CCC-led council and said demanded for the stands be removed.
“We want to know why is the council removing tar and putting residential stands in a street. As residents we were never consulted about the development and these stands should be removed,” she said.
Ward 28 Councillor Runyowa Chihoma professed ignorance over the issue and said he needed time to find out.
“I am out of Harare and I need time to find out,” he said.
Some of the streets in Glen Norah have not been spared from the disaster as they have been converted into stands regardless of the outcry by residents condemning the continual sprouting of illegal structures in the suburb.
In December last year, a house was under construction in the middle of Mabanda Crescent opposite house number 664 in Glen Norah A.
There were two other cottages already completed and waiting for final touches in the middle of Narira Crescent in the same neighbourhood.
Another completed structure built next to house number 1486 close to Narira Street around Glen Norah flats was also erected in the middle of the road.
Online Reporter