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Africa-Press<\/a> – Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>By Kenneth Matimaire<\/b> –<\/p>\n

THE City of Mutare (CoM) has repaired 516 street lights and 11 tower lights as the eastern border city embarks on an exercise to restore its public lighting system.<\/p>\n

The development is meant to promote night tourism as well as improve the safety of residents and stakeholders at night.<\/p>\n

Theft and housebreak-in cases had become rampant across the city with criminals targeting areas with non functional public lights, according to the provincial police public relations department.<\/p>\n

Similar concerns were also reiterated by residents and their associations.<\/p>\n

CoM underscored that it was taking an aggressive drive to restore the public lighting system following the acquisition of its new aerial work platform.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have so far made tremendous progress in repairing non functioning street lights city wide to improve public light system. So far a total of 516 street lights have been repaired and brought to functionality,\u201d said CoM spokesperson Spren Mutiwi.<\/p>\n

Mutare has over 1,900 street lights.<\/p>\n

Information gathered indicates that the repaired street lights are situated in Greenside, Chaminuka, Darlington and Murambi suburbs including Josiah Tongogara, Robert Mugabe, and Park Road.<\/p>\n

Mutiwi said they are currently repairing street lights along Aerodrome Road, which had also become a hotspot for theft and assault cases.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are attending to underground fault cables and other repairs there (Aerodrome Road),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

In terms of tower lights, Mutiwi said they have repaired five in Dangamvura and six in Chikanga.<\/p>\n

This has seen a total of 16 functional tower lights in Dangamvura, 40 in Chikanga and three in Sakubva out of the 78 tower lights in the entire city.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have removed 15 tower lights that had outlived their lifespan and they could not be repaired anymore and were becoming a danger to the residents. Our thrust, is to push for the restoration of functioning public light and improve the safety of our residents and stakeholders at night.<\/p>\n

\u201cMore so, we are pushing for the night tourism development and that objective can only be realised when we have a functioning public light,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mutiwi said though the repairs were financed by the street light levy paid by residents, the funds were still meagre to meet the demand of repairs.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur major challenge is that the collection ratio visa vie the demand of the infrastructure which need to be required there is a lot of mismatch.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur collections can not meet the demand for repairs of street lights and more so considering that it is only 41 per month per property.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf revenue inflows improve, we definitely make greater impact but important to say we are slowly moving in the right direction,\u201d said Mutiwi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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