BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has refused to cancel a $737 Fire Brigade debt for a 25-year-old Old Lobengula widow which arose out of an accident that claimed her husband’s life along Gwanda Road in February last year.
STAFF REPORTER
According to the latest council minutes, Senelisiwe Siziba wrote to the local authority requesting that her $737,15 debt be cancelled because her “prospects of raising this charge are next to nothing” considering her circumstances.
However, the local authority resolved that “the application by (Senelisiwe) Siziba requesting for a waiver on the Fire Brigade charges ($737,15) for service rendered and debited to House number 56827/2 Old Lobengula be not acceded to, instead applicant make arrangements with the finance director for staggered payments.”
Siziba wrote to the local authority, whose excerpts were contained in the report, that the charge arose after a fire tender was summoned to attend to a road accident that claimed the life of her husband who was the breadwinner.
“My concern is that since this accident that claimed my husband’s life was due to negligence of the other driver who encroached on to his lane and rammed into his car, I, therefore, ask that the charge be directed to the other driver who has since been prosecuted and found guilty by the court of law case number G217/12,” she said.
