SIXTEEN Bindura Municipality incoming councillors sworn into office last Thursday
have been implored to serve their purpose during their five-year tenure leading their
respective wards.
The call was made by the Bindura District Development Co-ordinator Richard
Chipfuwa as he congratulated them after being sworn in, at the municipality
chamber.
The councillors all inherit an ailing Bindura with a plethora of problems from the lack
of street and traffic lights in the central business district to a shortage of water across
all locations.
They are also coming in to serve a community with a shortage of schools, health
facilities and a poor road network.
Edward Nyekete, (Zanu PF) Ward 12 councillor, said the most pressing issue in his
ward, is that of water and he vowed that it would be resolved before end of his term.
Some parts of the ward have gone for nearly a year without accessing tap water.
“Had it not been that Honourable Musanhi (returning Bindura North Member of
Parliament) used part of his Constituency Development Funds to drill some
boreholes in the ward, we could have been swimming in a cholera outbreak.
“I hope l will be able to resolve the water issue in the ward, that’s the most pressing
issue in my ward,” he said.
Brian Kembo (CCC), who retained his Ward 1 seat, said he will push for the
establishment of a primary and secondary school as well as a clinic in Ward 1.
Ward 1 covers the new low-density suburbs of Cleverhill and Greenhill to the north of
Bindura Hospital.
The ward still has gravel roads, no public shopping centre and no schools.
Pupils of school-going age from this community travel at least eight kilometers daily
to school, some by bus and others on foot depending on one’s parents’ financial
muscle.
Kembo said: “Resources permitting, l also look forward to the roads being re
gravelled and even being tarred.”
Talent Dhiyo (Zanu PF), who was elected into council under the women’s quota said
she will work on the sanitisation of Chipadze.
She indicated that she will fight for the improvement of water supplies to high-
density suburbs