BULAWAYO, Feb 10 (NewsDayLive) - The Bulawayo Progressive Residents Association (BPRA) has called on councillors to handle residents' concerns with honesty and transparency.
Speaking during a council water utility meeting last week, BPRA chairperson Stephen Nkomo expressed frustration over councillors' failure to disseminate accurate information in their respective wards, leading to widespread misinformation and disinformation among residents.
"The main problem why residents are not informed by council developments comes from within wards. Councillors do not tell residents the truth. They were chosen by people to represent them, hence they should,” said Nkomo.
"Residents rely on rumours, and these rumours cause them to lose trust on councillors.
"We have been moving around all wards doing consultations with residents and we noticed that there is a very big division between residents and their councillors. Some councillors are not honest.”
The residents have of late been complaining of not bein properly informed about the water utility development.
"Everything that happens in this city has to start from the residents because they are the owners of this city," Nkomo added.
The city council says the establishment of a corporate water utility company is critical in unlocking and ring-fencing the necessary funding to finance the upgrading of obsolete water and sewerage infrastructure, which requires between US$600 million and US$1 billion.
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