Cowdray Park resembles a rural area, says Zanu-PF MP

LUVEVE MP Ntandoyenkosi Mlilo (Zanu PF) has said Cowdray Park resembles a rural set-up and needs modernisation due to lack of necessary amenities such as toilets, electricity and clinics among others.

"Ward 28 is more of a rural set-up in an urban environment. This is characterised by Blair toilets, no electricity, no access roads and communal taps for water.

"I am happy to say that I have met and sat down with the Minister of Local Government (Saviour Kasukuwere) and plans are already under way to avert a looming health disaster.

"As we speak, the ministry is in consultation with the Bulawayo City Council to come up with a roadmap for eradicating de-urbanisation in Cowdray Park," Mlilo told Parliament in his maiden speech on Tuesday.

"Ward 28 has a small four- roomed house which is being used as a clinic.

"This house came as a donation from a building contractor but it is failing to service the continuously growing community.

"I therefore would like to appeal to the Ministry of Health and Child Care to make plans to build and commission a referral hospital as the current population in this ward cannot be adequately serviced by a clinic," he said.

Bulawayo has suffered the brunt of the economic collapse of the last decade and in 2013 President Robert Mugabe described the city as a scrapyard.