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George Maponga in Masvingo
Masvingo City is slowly marching towards attaining its goal of becoming an industrialised metropolitan city by 2030 thanks to the devolution programme that has enabled the country’s oldest municipality to beef up its firefighting vehicles fleet, refuse collection trucks and procure service vehicles for strategic personnel.
The city, which is now home to over 100 000 residents, now boasts a fleet of five fire tenders after Government facilitated the delivery of three new firefighting vehicles to the local authority under the Belarus facility.
The expansion of the firefighting fleet means the local authority can now adequately deal with emergencies within its growing municipal boundaries and across the entire province as Masvingo city is the provincial capital.
The fleet will also cater for emergencies along the upgraded Harare-Masvingo-Beitbridge highway.
Town Clerk Engineer Edward Mukaratirwa recently revealed that the ancient city was going to recruit 10 more firefighters to beef up its emergency preparedness team following the procurement of new firefighters.
Masvingo also procured one more refuse collection truck, bringing to five the number of refuse trucks servicing the city.
Speaking during the commissioning of the new fire tenders, the refuse collection truck and five service vehicles procured by the local authority for US$2,1 million mostly using funds from the devolution programme, Masvingo Minister of State for Provincial Affairs and Devolution, Ezra Chadzamira, hailed the devolution initiative for facilitating localised development.
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