Opinion / Columnist
ZESA and City Council tools for 2018 vote rigging
27 Aug 2016 at 13:30hrs | Views
Besides state army and the police being tools of brutalising poor Zimbabweans by Zanu-PF the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) and City Council is also being used to mount pressure on the Zimbabwean impoverished population by Zanu-PF before they slash bills for 2018 polls fate analysis revealed .
The power distribution company handed over some of its defaulting customers owing $572 million to lawyers as it intensifies efforts to recover money owed by users a move which is said to have been backed by Zanu-PF for torturing Zimbabweans with poverty and at a later stage before the forth coming elections are due cut and try to regain confidence from the people.
Speculation has it that the Company's Directors received an instruction from top Zanu-PF officials to handover defaulters to debt collectors.
Zesa spokesperson Fullard Gwasira said the company have USD 1 billion in debts but surprisingly only USD 572 million is being chased for.
It is still unknown that the Zanu-PF-led government will not, as it did in 2013, write-off residents' rates arrears as a vote-buying gimmick ahead of the 2018 elections.
According to the Herald at least 350 residents have already lost vehicles and property to the City Council for failing to pay bills.
This move is by no means a bid to recover money but inflict pain.
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Panashe Makufa <panashemakufa@gmail.com
Source - Panashe Makufa
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