The Mzuzu City Council has said it needs about K20 million to renovate the official residence of the city\u2019s Mayor which is currently in dilapidated state.<\/p>\n
Since being elected to the mayoral post, William Mkandawire has been living in a rented house for which the council pays monthly rentals of K200,000.<\/p>\n
Speaking in an interview on Tuesday Chief Executive Officer, Macloud Kadam\u2019manja, said the Mayor\u2019s official house which was once sold in dubious circumstances\u2014needs serious renovations before it can be occupied.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe do not have a befitting house for him. We managed to fight for the house in court after we realised it was wrongly sold,\u201d Kadam\u2019manja said.<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cNow we have paid back the money to the one who bought it and we are only waiting for a full council meeting to decide whether to demolish and build another structure or carry out maintenance.\u201d<\/p>\n
During the full council meeting on Monday, the house was a subject of debate between councillors and secretariat because the latter allowed a tenant to occupy the house.<\/p>\n
\u201cI do not see any reason why we should be lenient with the tenant. He took us to court and claimed a lot of money because we wanted our house back\u201d queried Leonard Njikho, Member of Parliament for Mzuzu City.<\/p>\n
The councillors also pressured the secretariat to speed up the process of establishing the by-laws before their term ends in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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