Andrew
Conrad Mupesa
Mashonaland West Bureau
VOTERS should resoundingly elect Zanu-PF candidates in the forthcoming by-elections as the revolutionary party is committed to sustain the economic and infrastructure development progress being fostered by the Second Republic, the ruling party’s national chairperson, Cde Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri, has said.
Addressing multitudes of Zanu-PF supporters at a star rally to drum up support for the party’s candidates in the forthcoming parliamentary and local authority by-elections on March 26 at Chikangwe Stadium in Karoi yesterday, Cde Muchinguri-Kashiri said Zanu-PF is a people-centred party.
“Zanu PF is the only party with a roadmap that tracks our history, where we are and plans for our future. Our President has introduced various key economic development projects and through his leadership, there is massive roads infrastructure development that we are witnessing countrywide. This is not only improving the road network system but creating employment.”
Cde Muchinguri-Kashiri, who is also the Defence and War Veterans Affairs Minister, encouraged Zimbabweans to make the most out of the economic independence that the country enjoys. On housing ownership, she guaranteed residents of Karoi town that they will also benefit from the programme to issue title deeds to homeowners that do not have the documents.
“Our listening President has made it a point that all urban householders should have title deeds. This is also aimed at protecting your legacies for generations to come,” Cde Muchinguri-Kashiri said.
She chided the opposition parties for running down urban councils as evidenced by poor service delivery in most of the country’s cities and towns.
“You should vote out the opposition parties for improved service delivery and because we are a people-centred party. After hearing of the water woes in this Ward, we drilled a borehole to provide you with clean water, which the opposition party has failed to do.”
Prior to the star rally, Cde Muchinguri Kashiri accompanied by Mashonaland West Minister of State for Provincial Affairs and Devolution, Cde Mary Mliswa-Chikoka, as well as Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services deputy Minister, Cde Kindness Paradza, commissioned a borehole in the town’s Ward 4.
She also brought food hampers that were provided by President Mnangagwa for the underprivileged and the elderly.
All the 17 aspiring parliamentary and local authority candidates from the province, who were paraded to the supporters, received thousands of primary school textbooks sourced by the party to be supplied to schools in their wards.
Various Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) defectors including the brother of the late Karoi Ward 4 MDC-A councillor, Lavender Chiwaya, joined the ruling party yesterday.
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