CHITUNGWIZA residents have demanded a seat on the selection panel for candidates eyeing the posts of chamber secretary and housing director to ensure transparency in the selection process.
BY PAIDAMOYO MUZULU
The call came after Chitungwiza Municipality recently invited applications for the two posts.
Chitungwiza Residents’ Trust (Chitrest) director Marvelous Khumalo confirmed the residents’ demands.
“We are currently in the process of initiating discussion with town clerk, George Makunde, so that we become part of the process in selecting senior employees,” he said.
“This is the second time the council is doing this process after the Local Government Board rejected the names of the persons who had been forwarded for appointment, saying they had no local government experience.”
Chitungwiza has, over the last decade, hogged the limelight for all the wrong reasons because of maladministration and unethical conduct of its councillors, some of them implicated in illegal sales of residential stands.
Former town clerk Godfrey Tanyanyiwa is currently serving time in jail for corruption.
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The local authority has been struggling to provide uninterrupted water supplies and refuse collection and currently owes its workers 13 months’ salaries.
