Councils’ rot must be stopped

IN yesterday’s edition of NewsDay, we carried a story on urban and rural councils officials who were hectored by their mother body to attend a cooking competition co-organised by First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa.

This came after a letter from the Urban Council Association of Zimbabwe (Ucaz) invited town clerks, secretaries, mayors and chairpersons to the cook-out competition and nhanga/gota programme and the ground-breaking ceremony which was held from July 26 to 28 in Victoria Falls.

Most local authorities have been under the spotlight for poor service delivery at a time when officials have gained notoriety for attending endless meetings to pick up allowances.

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