Citizens Blast Mayor Mafume Over City Parking
Citizens allege that Mayor Mafume only responded after prominent banker Nigel Chanakira's car got clamped.
Harare Mayor Jacob Mafume has come under fire after ordinary citizens felt he ignored their concerns on clamping by City Parking.
A lawyer, Thabani is elated that the mayor did not respond to his concerns for 5 days.
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Citizens allege that the mayor Mafume only got to respond to the City Parking issue after prominent banker Nigel Chanakira got clamped whilst in a meeting in the CBD.
Clamped in Harare whilst in a meeting after I failed to see the parking attended to pay & I was stuck for a solid 2 hours sorting this out City Parking asked for US$130. The fine is totally disproportionate to the offense. I’m perplexed that we can have such unjust city bylaws. pic.twitter.com/yPPJbN0FYw
— Nigel MK Chanakira (@nigelchanakira) March 8, 2023
Mayor Jacob Mafume responded to Mr Nigel Chanakira's tweet about the clamping and said the City Fathers would sit down with management of City Parking and then hold a press conference.
We have noted concerns of the public on this issue .We will be calling a Press Conference tomorrow together with city parking to announce the recommendations we have received from the public .We have to strike a balance between the fines and what people can afford @Cde_Ostallos https://t.co/McKT68tCHW
— Mayor of Harare, Jacob Mafume (@JMafume) March 8, 2023
Samkeliso Tshuma called out the mayor for not responding to tweets of “ordinary citizens” who were expressing their frustrations at the behaviour of City Parking agents.
It really took Nigel Chanakira to tweet about this to get the Mayor to respond. I had seen tweets of "ordinary citizens" before Nigel tweeted, tagging the Mayor expressing their frustrations, they were ignored. Musadaro shuwa. https://t.co/OqMK7udWxE
— Samkeliso Tshuma (@samkebusiness) March 9, 2023
Local Government minister, July Moyo has since set up a committee to look into the affairs of City Parking.
Local government minister July Moyo is intervening in Harare's parking crisis where motorists are being clamped and made to pay US$132 to get their vehicles released for parking infringements. Harare mayor Jacob Mafume, meanwhile, has called a news conference Thursday on matter pic.twitter.com/C9glAqWFOj
— ZimLive (@zimlive) March 8, 2023
