Mutare City Council, which has embarked on a road rehabilitation exercise, completes refurbishment of a kilometer stretch of First Street for a whooping US$2,5 million.
Mutiwi said the local municipality needs at least US$30million to refurbish 500 kilometer stretch of roads in the city, under its broad objectives of establishing a Smart City Status.
"City of Mutare has completed the resealing of First Street, covering the distance of 1.1 kilometers as the local authority engages in over drive to refurbish the road network.
"Periodic road maintenance is still in progress, the local authority plays the supervisory role and we continue to role out routine maintenance programme engaging in pothole patching, the new road network has already renewed the confidence of business motorists who operate along the street," he said.
"The local authority is very much determined to change the poor road network and establish modern road infrastructure that befits of a City Status," he said.
