Harare City Council offices shut doors

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By Zimbabwe Observer reporter

Harare City Council has closed down offices after coronavirus swept through four of the local authorities building.

This was announced by the Harare Acting Mayor, Enock Mupamawonde.

“We have taken precautionary measures to ensure that our offices and buildings remain safe for both our staff members and the general public. We are therefore temporarily closing the following buildings to allow for fumigation: Town House, Rowan Martin, Cleveland House and Remembrance Drives offices. The offices open for business on Monday, 3 August, 2020,” said Mupamawonde in a statement released today.

Harare City Council establishments like any other facilities in the city have not been spared the scourge of Covid-19.

“Some of our staff members have contracted the virus, mostly in the health sector,” said Mupamawonde.

The Acting Mayor added that his council was continuing with mandatory testing of our employees as guided by the Ministry of Health and Childcare and World Health Organisation to ensure the protection of staff members and stakeholders.

Mupamawonde also announced that all committee and management meetings will be minimized adding that some staffers have already started working from home.

He added that health personnel, waste management and water staffers will move around workstations as their work cannot be done from Home.

The City father appealed to residents and ratepayers to continue paying their municipal bills as a way of empowering council to deal with service delivery and strengthen its fight against Covid-19.

Mupamawonde is standing in for the detained Harare City council Mayor Hebert Gomba who is facing charges of corruptly allocating stands to his party bosses and comrades.