City of Harare extravagance – SMS responses
In recent weeks, there has been a lot of muttering on the streets about the US $152,000 Mercedes Benz recently acquired by Harare Mayor Muchadeyi Masunda.
Now, it turns out, the City of Harare has also bought two Prados, valued at as much as US $190,000 together.
According to a statement from the Combined Harare Residents Association, the money spent on these three vehicles would be enough “to procure water treatment chemicals that can supply the entire city of Harare with clean water for almost half a year.”
We asked our SMS subscribers what they thought about the Mayoral Benz. We received over 50 replies from across Zimbabwe. A few subscribers were supportive of the new vehicle, but overall the responses were quite condemning. We share some of these responses below:
A pity he already forgets we have no water. Our robots don’t work. Our roads are bad. Shame on him.
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You’re just jealous. He deserves it.
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That’s shit. These high profile people are not concerned about the masses.
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Why r we not surprised! They will never change there bad habits, Never!
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This is madness and lack of direction when City is losing lot of treated water
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It simply confirms that Zanu Pf and the MDC are one and the same. They are all after riches and nothing else. We are alone in the struggle against poverty!
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Residence should boycott paying rates and water bills till the services improves
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Water first be4 luxuries
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It is very bad. People in Kuwadzana are taking ten hours in a queue to fetch water from a borehole.
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Lets all refuse to pay for bills charged by parastatals and local authorities coz the money is going to pay for luxuries and hefty salaries and no services.
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This is quite pathetic. How cum that they use such an amt for nothing yet they sey the gvt is bankrupt & fail to pay civil servants & leave our cities in a poor state.