‘Bring back executive mayors’

THE opposition MDC Alliance has called for the return of executive mayors in local authorities to address service delivery issues affecting most urban councils.

MDC Alliance secretary-general Chalton Hwende told NewsDay that executive mayors would help drive government’s devolution programme because they would be working full-time.

Last year, residents’ associations also called for the return of executive mayors, arguing that town clerks, chamber secretaries and other top managers in local authorities had become more powerful than ceremonial mayors.

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