The government has commissioned some utility service vehicles for Gweru City Council, in a move set to enhance service delivery in line with the Call-to-Action blueprint.
The acquisition of the utility service vehicles is part of the broader plan by the local authority to bolster operations as the City of Progress angles to attain a smart city status.
“The trucks will improve our efficiency as we will be able to attend to faults and other issues related to service delivery. We are on a journey towards delivering excellent services. These will make our service delivery easy as we intend to make Gweru achieve a smart city status,” Gweru City Council Mayor, Councillor Martin Chivhoko said.
The government commended the Gweru city fathers for responding to the Second Republic’s call for action in line with the dictates of the local authorities’ Call to Action blueprint.
“I urge other local authorities to ensure efficient and prudent use of public resources, exhibit unfettered accountability, transparency, as well as timely, impartial and equitable services to residents guided by the Second Republic’s value systems of commitment, hard honest work, patriotism and the development mantra of leaving no one and no place behind.
“Local authorities must complement devolution funds with well-structured, widely consulted and transparent, technology-driven revenue generation systems as well as promotion of Public Private Partnerships to stimulate development in areas under their jurisdiction,” Midlands Minister of State for Provincial Affairs and Devolution, Owen Ncube said.
Local authorities are currently on a drive to adopt the smart city concept with the government availing devolution funds as the Second Republic continues to push for urban renewal in its development matrix.
