Council seized with road rehabilitation ahead of rain season
By Lovemore Chazingwa in Kadoma
City of Kadoma has indicated that it is now seized with road rehabilitation ahead of the onset of the rain season.
This was revealed by council officials during a 2025 Mid-Term Budget Review meeting held at a city venue recently.
During deliberations, directors, Faustina Zhou (finance) and Blessing Musasira (engineering) said they were working on modalities to improve storm water drainage and rid the city of perennial road network infrastructure and household flooding.
Flooding has affected infrastructure and homes in low lying areas of suburbs especially in Rimuka, Munhumutapa, Pixie Combi, Destiny, Waverly and Ingezi.
“The city has targeted to spend a significant chunk of its budget on road rehabilitation. We expect to deploy at least US$1 million on major roads that we think will improve the challenges posed by poor drainage. We will be working closely with the engineering department to ensure that we get our job done,” said Zhou.
Eng. Musasira told the house that council is procuring equipment which enables it to clear silt material and dump it away from the drainage system such that it will not recollect in the drains, causing blockage hence flooding.
“We have come up with a plan to procure suitable equipment to enable us to collect silt material from the drainage system and dump it elsewhere. We will dispose of it to avoid accumulation once it starts raining.”
Adding: “We have started clearing gravel which was meant to rehabilitate roads but, had remained as mounds, like was the case on the road connecting Ajida and Morris Streets in Rimuka.We’ve also started on the intersection of Munhumutapa and Destiny which runs to AFIC Ministry main complex on drain clearing. We will be deploying staff and equipment to such other roads requiring urgent attention. We’re moving to ensure that we complete this task before the onset of the rain season. The roads rehabilitation processes include gravelling, grading, patching and drain clearance.”
The engineering director was quick to point out that there is limitation on those roads they can rehabilitate as others are still under the authority of contractors through Zinara. They cannot do any work on those roads until they get clearance from the national roads authority.
Finance said council has so far not received devolution funds for this round of votes and are using internal sources to fund operations.
