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Commission
continues to loot from unsuspecting residents
Combined Harare
Residents Association (CHRA)
November 06, 2007
Municipal tariffs
are set for a major increase by the end of this month. This follows
government's decision to allow local authorities to increase
tariffs as planned in their budgets for the year 2007. This means
that residents must brace for up to 3000 percent increases as government
backtracks on its price control mechanism. The increases are effective
end of October and backdated to September.
In an apparent
policy reversal, Partson Mbiriri, the Secretary for the Ministry
of Local Government, Public Works and Urban Development, recently
wrote to all provincial administrators informing them that all councils
had been allowed to effect tariff increases proposed in their budgets
for this year. One of the parastatals ZINWA has already increased
tariffs leading to residents receiving ballooned bills of between
$4 million and $25 million. School fees and other basic commodity
prices have been allowed to increases as the prices and incomes
commission eats a humble pie.
CHRA advises
all residents to be on the alert for the upcoming tariffs increases
in all Urban Municipal areas. During these increases, unsuspecting
residents are usually overcharged by District offices. In the City
of Harare the tariff increases remain illegal as the budget that
proposed them was unlawfully formulated. Residents are urged to
boycott payments as the increases are illegal.
Visit the CHRA
fact
sheet
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