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Mafume defends cooperation with Mnangagwa's govt
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The opposition-led Harare City Council has declared it will make "no apology" for working collaboratively with the central government, signalling a new pragmatic approach focused on improving service delivery for residents.
Speaking yesterday at the official handover of 16 service vehicles for the rollout of prepaid water meters at Town House, Harare Mayor Councillor Jacob Mafume said councillors were elected to deliver results, not to engage in endless political confrontation.
The vehicles - six double-cab and ten single-cab trucks - were presented by Helcraw Electrical, the company managing the rollout of 600,000 prepaid water meters across five cities under a Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) agreement. The project involves collaboration between the Government, City of Harare, Helcraw Electrical, and Hangzhou Liaison Technology Company.
"We make no apology for working with the central government," said Mayor Mafume. "When the electorate elected us, it was aware that a situation could arise where the city would be run by one party and the central government by another. We were not elected to oppose the Government for the sake of it."
He emphasised that cooperation between political actors was necessary to fulfil the public mandate:
"We were elected to work together with the Government to deliver services to the people. As different parties, we all promised to help Zimbabweans - and that is exactly what we are doing."
The Mayor also called for unity of purpose across the political divide, saying service delivery transcends partisanship.
"Sewage smells just as bad to an opposition person. Water tastes as good to a Zanu-PF person as it does to someone in the opposition," Mafume remarked. "A road does not ask for your party card before it damages your car. We must focus on providing seamless, standard, and world-class services for our people."
Speaking yesterday at the official handover of 16 service vehicles for the rollout of prepaid water meters at Town House, Harare Mayor Councillor Jacob Mafume said councillors were elected to deliver results, not to engage in endless political confrontation.
The vehicles - six double-cab and ten single-cab trucks - were presented by Helcraw Electrical, the company managing the rollout of 600,000 prepaid water meters across five cities under a Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) agreement. The project involves collaboration between the Government, City of Harare, Helcraw Electrical, and Hangzhou Liaison Technology Company.
"We make no apology for working with the central government," said Mayor Mafume. "When the electorate elected us, it was aware that a situation could arise where the city would be run by one party and the central government by another. We were not elected to oppose the Government for the sake of it."
"We were elected to work together with the Government to deliver services to the people. As different parties, we all promised to help Zimbabweans - and that is exactly what we are doing."
The Mayor also called for unity of purpose across the political divide, saying service delivery transcends partisanship.
"Sewage smells just as bad to an opposition person. Water tastes as good to a Zanu-PF person as it does to someone in the opposition," Mafume remarked. "A road does not ask for your party card before it damages your car. We must focus on providing seamless, standard, and world-class services for our people."
Source - The Herald
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