Solomon Tembo, who was born in Kadoma, will contest against
two other candidates, a Cuban and a Spaniard in the mayoral election slated for
November 2.
The City of Allentown is home to 127 000 people, mainly
whites, followed by Hispanics and then blacks.
Tembo is promising the electorate bountiful opportunities
and shared prosperity for all through economic growth, job creation, service
delivery as well as empowered communities and neighbourhoods.
“The city needs someone who can make the unequivocal pledge
and commitment to create good-paying jobs while attracting new investment
capital into the city for its development and revitalisation,” he told NewsDay
Weekend from his base.
He said he would work to make housing more affordable and
improve service delivery while rehabilitating the city’s crumbling
infrastructure.
He said the poor would be protected by ensuring that
taxpayers’ money is spent responsibly and ensuring that the city’s savings were
used to provide services for the most vulnerable groups.
“We will employ stringent debt management and vigorous
financial oversight to create savings to advance our progressive agenda to
strengthen education, health care and environmental protection,” he said.
Tembo also promised to crack down on corruption, crime and
drug addiction as well as maintain law and order as a way of providing security
to the community.
The justice system, he said, would be reformed to make it
fair and balanced.
Tembo was born in Kadoma to Solomon Evaristo Tembo, the
first black councillor in the then Gatooma in 1978.
The aspiring mayor worked at Gateway International Exchange
before moving to the United States in 1994 to pursue further studies. He went
to Kutztown University of Pennsylvania where he studied business.
He worked as a hotel manager for Sheraton, Hilton and Crown
Plaza before starting his own business empire which includes a tax consulting
office, a transport company and a home care centre which he runs with two other
partners. Newsday
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