Source: Mayor ordered to surrender $63k car – DailyNews Live
Jeffrey Muvundusi 31 May 2017
BULAWAYO – The Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC has ordered the council here to
immediately put on sale one of the two recently purchased mayoral
vehicles, with the proceeds to be channelled towards service delivery.
The city’s mayor Martin Moyo recently took delivery of a $118 000 Mercedes
Benz GLE 250, hardly three months after the local authority had bought him
a $63 000 Chevrolet Trailblazer.
Following public outcry, the council summoned the mayor and his
councillors to a May 25 meeting in which provincial spokesperson Felix
Mafa yesterday said as a party, they were forced to come up with the
resolution regarding the contentious matter.
“Because there was an outcry of two expensive mayoral cars, the MDC
provincial executive committee came up with a resolution that the council
must let the mayor use the Benz as part of his working conditions but park
the Trailblazer forthwith so that it can be sold and its proceeds used for
service provision,” Mafa said.
“It was thought to be very expensive for the poor council to spend $118
000 on the Benz GLE 250 and the $63 000 for the Trailblazer. If need be,
the town clerk must use the BT50 model until his car of choice is
delivered by September 2017,” he said.
According to Mafa, council was forced to acquire the Trailblazer after a
delay in delivery of the Benz, which had been ordered from Germany.
The provincial spokesperson said living a luxurious life at the expense of
the suffering masses was not part of the MDC’s DNA.
“We therefore decided that therefore we are social democratic party which
should not live luxuriously and exuberantly at the expense of the
residents.
“As a result, we have ordered our councillors to go and make a resolution
that will see the Trailblazer be parked immediately and advertised for
resale so that the proceeds go and alleviate service delivery to the
people of Bulawayo,” he said.
In an earlier interview with the Daily News, Moyo saw no problem with the
acquisition of expensive vehicles.
“Council buys tens of cars in any year. The mayoral Benz is just one car
in a large fleet of cars. At $118 000, that is what it cost. It is in fact
in the lower range. The car is not Martin Moyo’s. I’ll leave it behind for
my successor in 12 months,” Moyo said.
COMMENTS
This kind of carelessness & insensitivity, which one would only associate with zanu pf, really casts the MDC band in very bad light. I guess these are clearly the fruits of MDC_ZANU PF co-habitation during so-called GNU era. Surely, corruption, like any disease or bad habit, is contagious. Ukaroora kana kuroorwa nemuroyi unogoguma wadya nyama yemhunhu ukaita muroyi chete. Kana kunoti: Ukaziya moto wembavha newe unotoita mbavha. This is what happened with most MDC cadres – seriously contaminated by zanu pf viruses. So, most of those MDC people who once co-habited with zanu pf criminals surely need some serious cleansing. This is the truth.
T.I.A. This is Africa. So called Politicians, I call them thieving thugs are all the same, they’re in it for the wealth. That’s the reason Morgan & his MDC shared power with ZANU PF. Mdara offered them the benz & the mansion & that was it.
The mayor has given a very plausible reason why he has ended up with two mayoral cars moreover he has voiced no objection to having one of the vehicles sold. Why the overthe top criticism?
Be fair guys!