Harare procures 48 service delivery vehicles

Bridget Mabanda

The City of Harare has procured a total of 48 service delivery vehicles in an effort to improve its service delivery.

Commissioned at Town House were 20 Nissan NP200 trucks, two Navara single cab trucks, one front-end loader, one excavator, four tractors and 20 motorcycles.

Speaking at the commissioning ceremony, Harare mayor Jacob Mafume said council has adopted the back-to-basics mantra and is trying everything to restore a smart city by end of 2022.

He said the development is the fulfilment of what he said in his State of the City address.

“I stated that we are going back to the basics on service delivery and in the budget, we stated that we have gone back to basics. We need to do the simple things right,” he said.

Mafume also said it is high time council acts rather than make promises.

“We can no longer be promising people a better life in years to come. Every time, we are telling them that things will be better in 2025, 2030, 2040 and so on when people want their lives to be better now.

“They want garbage removed now, they want water given to them now, they want roads repaired now, they want a quality of life which is better now,” he said.

Mafume said the vehicle purchases was funded from the council’s own pocket.

“We used our resources as the council, it’s not central government, not from devolution funds …,” he said.

The Harare mayor said the city was supposed to get ZWL2.3 billion from government but it was delayed.

He also promised that the vehicles will be distributed fairly.

Mafume promised more service delivery vehicles and continued effort to restore sanity in the city.