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Executive
Mayor faces yet another hurdle
Combined
Harare Residents Association (CHRA)
The Resident
Issue 34
April 13, 2004
If the terms of reference
for the Harare Executive Mayor include staying out of office for a long
time, then Eng. Elias Mudzuri should be given props for doing his job.
Unfortunately, it is not of his making. Just three months into his elected
position, state media and the Ministry of Local Government, Public Works
and National Housing began a calculated attack on his office. This culminated
in the suspension of the Executive Mayor in April 2003.
28 April will mark
the anniversary of the Mayor's suspension. To date, two commissions have
been mooted to investigate the Mayor with no tangible results. The first
commission was disbanded before it even started work; the second commission,
exuding zeal for work cried for an extension of their tenure by six months,
blessed with $50,000.00 a day each from the residents' pockets. They have
nothing to show for their effort however, literally because a report that
they produced has not been made public, and the Mayor continues to stay
out of his office.
Eng. Elias Mudzuri
faces yet another hurdle this time in the form of the Tomana investigating
team. The Independent reports that the current investigation
might just be a formality. It is a forgone conclusion that the investigating
team's recommendations will not be in the Mayor's favour. Despite the
fact that the Mayor protested the composition of the investigating team
and the process with which the investigation was being conducted, the
team has gone ahead and will make its recommendations public very, very
soon.
Residents can only
afford to be spectators in this exercise. What can we do, considering
that the Ministry has chosen to sideline the interests of residents throughout
the fiasco. The Resident feels that residents need to
make a stand and demand a speedy resolve to the issue of the Mayor. We
cannot afford to keep looking on whilst our democratic right is being
trounced in broad daylight.
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