BULAWAYO City Council is set to roll out mid-year budget reviews and consultative meetings across the city beginning next week.
Bulawayo Progressive Residents Association co-ordinator Permanent Ngoma encouraged residents to attend the meetings.
“We are eager to participate in budget review meetings,” she said.
“We have already started to encourage residents in all the wards to participate.”
Ngoma said they expected council to allocate a bigger part of budgets to address the water crisis.
“One major issue we want to see council attending to is the issue of water. We want to see a big chunk of the budget going towards addressing the water crisis,” she said
Bulawayo United Residents Association chairperson Winos Dube said addressing the water crisis should top the agenda of the budget consultations.
“We will challenge if we find out that some of the issues in the budget are not in sync with the residents.”
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Bulawayo is facing the worst water crisis in years.
Government has, however, refused to declare the city a water crisis area to enable the local authority to mobilise outside support to finance various interventions.
