City of Harare Commends ZINARA

The City of Harare Mayor Jacob Mafume has finally commended Zimbabwe National Road Administration (ZINARA), after a long scuffle between the two parties over the disbursement of road rehabilitation funds.

Speaking during the engagement meeting yesterday, Mafume highlighted that ZINARA agreed to relook at the formula used to disburse funds which was done in the 2000s.

“I just had a very good and fruitful meeting with ZINARA a beginning of an engagement, as you know we have been engaging publicly and sometimes privately on how we can advance of the road users and come up with a formula or a way to make sure that at least we revamp the roads of Harare where I preside.

Mafume further requested for an urgent stakeholders meeting within a month to deliberate on the formula used to disburse road funds.

He added that, “We are asking the public to bear with us as we work out these modalities on urgent basis, we know that the road network is not what it should be. We should do better for the motoring public, there is no excuse for what the public is experiencing on a daily basis.

“We must depoliticise issues to do with roads because they do not ask for political affiliation, religious affiliation or any other.

“The ZINARA that is before us is a new ZINARA, different from the ZINARA I was talking about of massages and I do hope with a new chairperson live up to their word.”

 ZINARA also highlighted that they had a fruitful meeting with the Harare Mayor on their social media platform Twitter.

“We had a fruitful engagement with Harare Mayor yesterday on how we can work together to rehabilitate the City’s roads. We agreed to convene an all stakeholder meeting to review the current disbursement formula,” said ZINARA.