The Tendai Biti led People’s Democratic Party says “tired” Zanu PF officials in Mashonaland East are failing to improve service delivery to the electorate.
“We have not seen anything tangible they have done for the people since they were elected into office and what we are seeing is the deterioration of service delivery, for example Marondera, Mrewa and Macheke which awarded town status people are living in squalid conditions in these towns which were once growth points,” the party’s Mashonaland East provincial chairman Langton Matuku Matuku told ZimEye.com in an interview.
“If you go to Mrewa centre people are given under serviced piece of land to build houses where at the same portion they are digging shallow wells for drinking water and some few meters on the same land they are digging holes and constructing pit latrines”.
“This is poor service delivery dangerous to the people’s health which we are condemning and believe it needs to be greatly improved,” he said.
Matuku said this is caused by the aging Zanu PF leadership which the party is imposing on the electorate.
“For example in Mrewa north’s ward 16 there is a 78 year old Zanu PF councillor who was recently imposed on the people by Zanu PF after the party had sacked the seating councillor on allegations of siding with the Joice Mujuru camp and this has greatly affected service delivery,”said Matuku.
PDP could not field any candidate because of the “No Reforms No Election” campaign they adopted soon after the 2013 elections.