Zimbabwe: Council Bosses Must Justify Their Keep

14 November 2016

THE findings, contained in an audit report on Harare City Council that was instigated by the Ministry of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing, have without doubt showed that city directors are totally disinterested in ensuring service delivery and are only concerned with serving their selfish interests.The city directors have ignored Government directive to reduce salaries and allowances and continued to earn mega salaries. As if that was not enough, they continued to receive their huge holiday allowances at a time the workforce had gone for months without salaries. The directors do not inspire confidence in the residents at all as their actions paint the picture of greedy and selfish people whose major interest in council is to line up their pockets.

It is always about them; their welfare, their salaries and allowances and never about service delivery and workers' welfare. Their primary concern is to ensure that they get their fat salaries and allowances at whatever cost even if it means workers go for months without salaries and service delivery is left unattended. We doubt very much if these are the right people to take our city, Harare, back to its Sunshine status.

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