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Masvingo Provincial Affairs Minister Ezra Chadzamira has warned lazy provincial councillors that they risk being booted for failing to push the province’s development agenda in line with Government’s devolution programme.
He challenged the councillors to fully embrace devolution and help steer Masvingo’s socio-economic development and help grow the province’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to make Zimbabwe an upper middle income economy by 2030.
Addressing stakeholders here during a district interface meeting recently, Minister Chadzamira said Government will closely monitor programmes to make sure all councils had their hands on the deck.
Government, he added, will measure the performance provincial councillors on a regular basis.
His warning come in the wake of reports that some councillors in the province were lazy and sleeping on the wheel.
“We are receiving reports of some councillors who are not working with communities and listening to their concerns. Such people will surely be booted out because we have no room for lazy people.’’
“Our President Cde ED Mnangagwa is a listening leader and as such, councillors who are tasked with steering development should do their job as directed because the President wants issues of community development to be attended to and taken seriously,’’ he said.
Dereliction of duty, said Minister Chadzamira, had no place under the Second Republic.
“Laziness and divisions were found in the old political dispensation. The Second Republic demands and priorities are different. Hard work and unity of purpose is our motto.’’
‘‘It is high time we work to empower the people of Masvingo particularly our women and youths. We should focus on growing our GDP and put politics aside so that we put our energy on development,’’ he said.
He also warned Government at district level, particularly district administrators, council chief executives among others that they will not be spared the boot for stymieing implementation of developmental projects.
“For instance, the issue of human-wild life conflict in this district (Bikita) because of a weak perimeter fence around Save Valley Conservancy requires that, heads of departments, community leaders and the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management (ZimParks) they sit down and urgently find a solution to the perennial problem.’’
Masvingo has big potential to meet its developmental goals in line with Vision 2030 thanks to the province’s vast natural resources base, a skilled workforce coupled with the highest dam density in Zimbabwe which can be exploited through irrigation.
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