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<\/p>\nPRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has threatened to come hard on civil servants who yesterday snubbed the national clean-up campaign, saying they would find themselves out of jobs.<\/p>\n
Addressing Chitungwiza residents, Mnangagwa said some of his staffers did not participate in the national clean-up programme and opted to stay put in their offices.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs I was leaving office, I saw some civil servants seated in their offices as if they did not know we have this programme. I said, okay, let me go since I want cleanliness and these people (act as if they) do not know that I had declared this day as a national day. But let me say this; we shall see. They will find themselves in their rural areas. I don\u2019t know how they will live there since they will also find people there busy with the cleanliness programme,\u201d Mnangagwa said.<\/p>\n
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Government last year announced that every first Friday of the month should be a national clean-up day as a way of promoting clean cities for tourism and economic growth.<\/p>\n
Mnangagwa has religiously led the event.<\/p>\n
He said since the launch of the programme in November, Harare central business district had changed its outlook and this he attributed to the support being given by residents.<\/p>\n
Mnangagwa came face-to-face with the water situation in Chitungwiza.<\/p>\n
He was told by the new town mayor Lovemore Maiko that the dormitory town was receiving water supplies from Harare at least twice a week, a feat the President said should be corrected.<\/p>\n
He invited the new mayor to his office so they could share the town\u2019s problems and see how government could assist.<\/p>\n
\u201cMayor, when you find time, may you pay a visit to my office so that you tell me all your problems and we find out how we can help each other,\u201d Mnangagwa said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf there are problems that we can solve, we solve them and if they are problems that we cannot solve, we will put them aside.\u201d<\/p>\n
Maiko said he was prepared to engage Mnangagwa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has threatened to come hard on civil servants who yesterday snubbed the national clean-up campaign, saying they would find themselves out of jobs. Addressing Chitungwiza residents, Mnangagwa said some of his staffers did not participate in the national clean-up programme and opted to stay put in their offices. \u201cAs I was leaving […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,12],"tags":[42,612,258,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-8319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-head-lines","9":"category-policy","10":"tag-ed-mnangagwa","11":"tag-chitungwiza","12":"tag-civil-servants","13":"tag-government"},"yoast_head":"\n