Farai Dziva|The monthly clean up exercise introduced by Emmerson Mnangagwa is part of his strategy to win the hearts of the urban electorate, MDC A official Jeffryson Chitando has said.

See Chitando’s argument below:

Mnangagwa must concentrate on the economic crisis in the country rather than trying to divert the people’s attention by embarking in these useless clean up campaigns.

His government needs a clean up more than the streets of our cities.

Firstly, it is the foreign currency parallel market.As long as the city councils are unable to access foreign currency and resort to the blackmarket with distorted foreign currency exchange rates, the clean up campaigns are a waste of time .

Secondly, the government institutions namely army ,police and schools must pay their debts.

The government is the biggest debtor to city councils. The government debts to city councils are running into millions of dollars.

If the government does not pay its debts how are councils expected to maintain clean environment or streets?

Thirdly the government must solve the fuel crisis. If the city councils are finding it difficult like any other institutions to access fuel then it’s pointless to blame them for the failure to collect garbage.

It is very good to embark on clean up campaigns but Mnangagwa is prescribing the wrong “medication to the patient.”

Mr Mnangagwa’s clean up campaigns are in actual fact rallies political rallies .After Zanu PF’s failure to penetrate the urban areas, it wants to use the exercise to its advantage.