Power struggle, the story of the Livingstone City Council

Ikuka Muleta
Youth Leadership Activist- Livingstone writes…..

Power struggle, the story of the Livingstone City Council.

It is a well known fact that when two senior officials in the local authority are not in good standing, are pulling and darking in different directions for own gains, service delivery suffers.

Livingstone City Council

Today, this is the similar situation that Livingstone City Council finds itself into. ….Why and how?? Only the administrative incharge and civic incharge have answers to such questions.
What is more clear and undisputable is that when the Mayor makes a pronounced through his elective powers as a city father, such pronouncements are never executed by management through the Town Clerk and team.
In the same way, decisions made by the Town Clerk and team are always short of a blessing from the City Father.
Now, where is the problem…….?
Rightfully, there is a big problem within the Livingstone City Council that needs to be addressed before more misery and sufferings are inflicted more on residents and our poor traders who are earning their living on the little they make from the daily sales they make.
What is happening in the Livingstone City Council concerning the welfare of the traders leaves much to be desired and it must be known that the local authority has lamentably failed to find alternative trading places for people who were displaced at the then Comesa Market within the Central Business District.
Both the Mayor and Town Clerk agrees to this fact. As though that is not enough, the Council agreed in one of it’s sitting that the affected traders be allowed to conduct business in identified places such as the Kapondo Street, Victoria Hall and Senga road.
But surprisingly, traders woke up to a rude shock on Wednesday after learning of the decision that was made by Council management to kick them out from those identified places.
Now, we are learning of people being arrested, taken to fast track courts, fined K 2,000 for offences caused by bad, failure and unreliable leadership within the local authority.
One is left to wonder as to whether the two senior officials and their directors have failed to understand the Local Government Act.
As City, let us fight for a leadership that is caring, faithful, hardworking above all a leadership that is patriotic if our plights as citizens are to be heard.

Good evening fellow citizens
Ikuka Muleta
Youth Leadership Activist- Livingstone.

Ikuka Muleta
Youth Leadership Activist- Livingstone.

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