In a recent interview, Nhamarare said Mutare City Council had only received $55,000 from Zinara for 2015. “The money from Zinara for road maintenance is too little compared to the revenue we used to get when councils collected the licence fees for motor vehicles,” he said.
“We are now asking for intervention from the new resident Minister (Mandi Chimene) and other authorities because roads in the city are in a terrible state. Council’s coffers are empty. We need a lot of money for road maintenance in Mutare. As a result we end up borrowing money for road maintenance, and using money meant for wages among other important council business,” said Nhamarare.
Zinara management came under attack last week after Transport minister Obert Mpofu directed the board to take over the day-to-day management to stamp out the rot in the debt-ridden parastatal.
Zinara is responsible for collecting the licence fees for motor vehicles and in 2013 took over from Zimbabwe Revenue Authority to control all the country’s tollgates.
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