Residents Demand Responses From Kadoma Council Authorities
By Lloyd Mwale in Kadoma
A City of Kadoma residents association, Greater Kadoma Residents and Ratepayers Association, (GKRRA) has written to the City authorities demanding responses to a plethora of problems being faced by residents in accessing service delivery.
In a letter in our possession, GKRRA wrote a letter in August, 2024 bringing attention to the City’s Town Clerk Malvern Dondo, over erratic water supply, a flawed budget process and collapse of sewer system, among other issue affecting the residents.
GKRRA secretary Bvunza Bope, said they had written to the City authorities after residents had been short -changed for long time by the council.
“Yes, we have written a letter to the city authorities demanding answers to why the council is short-changing us, the residents and ratepayers. We have gone for a long time without water in our taps forcing residents to access water from unsafe sources,” said Bope.
“We also need a response on the collapse of the Rimuka Sewage Treatment Plant as to why it is not working, and also on what the council is doing on the recent Auditor General’s report which exposed how our city is being run. We also need answers on why it has become as the normal at all council’s cemeteries that there are no tools to be used by residents when laying to rest their beloved one, forcing residents to hire tools mainly from some council employees yet the city authorities must provide that as service delivery.
“We solicit the intervention of the Ministry of Local Govt if counci does not proffer convincing explanations to issued raised,” said Bope, GKRRA secretary.
Greater Kadoma Residents and Ratepayers Association Chairperson, Lameck Madziba, weighed in saying that the city authorities’ level of supervision is very low showing incompetence in some of the directors.
“City of Kadoma lacks effective supervision and this has brought about incompetence in them,” he said.
“Recently one of its employee lost his life, but if there was proper supervision that life would not have been lost. This shows a high level of incompetence.
“Some council officials, councillors incuded, are also milking the city through workshops at the expenses of service delivery,” said GKRRA chairperson Madziba.
City of Kadoma Town Clerk, Malvern Dondo confirmed recieving the letter from GKRRA but had not responded in time due pressing government and council business.
“Yes, I can confirm that we recieved the letter from GKRRA but had not responded in time,” he said.
“We have not met as council to deliberate on the date to engage with the said residents association as we had some pressing government and council business but I assure them that we have taken note of all of their concerns and we will be meeting them in the coming few days to deliberate on some of their concerns,” said the City of Kadoma Town Clerk.
City of Kadoma residents from across the board have taken to social media platforms to blast council management and councillors for incompetence in running council business, with some calling for a commission to come and run the city’s affairs.
The perenial power outages coupled with vandalism and old infrastructures has exposed the City of Kadoma, making it very difficulty for the authorities to offer service delivery.
