ZIMBABWE - HARARE - Cholera is reportedly claiming an average of ten lives daily in Budiriro amid reports that the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (ZINWA) has run out of water treating chemicals a development that threatens to worsen the already erratic situation there.

 

The revelations have come at a time the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has reportedly “erroneously” released a fleet of twenty-eight BT50 trucks instead of funds to procure water-treating chemicals by the water authority.

 

Unofficial sources say Cholera has so far claimed more than four hundred lives against  official confirmations in the government press that the death toll is way below a hundred lives.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A ZINWA official who spoke to this publication from Budiriro poly-clinic where hapless bodies were literally dumped on the hospital grounds confirmed the central bank had released BT50 trucks instead of the much needed water treating chemicals.

 

The public relations directorate of the central bank has since dismissed the accusations saying that the water authority has been for a long time failing to manage financial resources allocated to it to manage its operations adding that the RBZ was just coming in as a Good 'Samaritan'.

 

At the time of going to print, Morton Jeffery Waterworks has virtually run out of chemicals amid fears that the Cholera situation might spread even beyond Budiriro to neighbouring suburbs as the government has practically run out of ideas.

 

A ministerial portfolio committee that comprises Webster Shamu the minister for the defunct Policy Implementation portfolio, Munacho Mutezo the ex-minister for water resources and sanitation among others has reportedly registered their hatred for any sentiments that the water authority has run out of water treating chemicals as they fear such outbursts might further harm the government’s already obliterated image.

 

Munacho Mutezo was recently booed by angry residents of Budiriro that also stoned a ZINWA vehicle. Reports say ZINWA has been barred from operating in Budiriro.

 

UNESCO a non-governmental organisation has been supplying water to Budiriro to alleviate the erratic situation.

 

Meanwhile, Beitbridge has also been hit by the Cholera epidemic with reports that thirty-six lives have been claimed.

 

An official from the City of Harare has since said that they are far from containing the scourge as the residents in Budiriro are not heeding calls to observe better hygienic standards. It is reported that most of them continue to trade unprotected food products on road sides at a time the reaction team is fighting nail-biting battles to eradicate the disease.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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