Harare Mayor Councillor Jacob Mafume said : “What is the
update on the Roadport? The Roadport is another agreement that we are going to
cancel. We have benefited absolutely nothing. When the Roadport was built, they
forgot that it was the property of the City of Harare.”
He appeared before the Parliament’s Public Accounts
Committee where he was responding to issues raised in the Auditor-General’s
report for 2021.
The Herald reports that Roadport is built on part of Raylton Sports Club land
leased from Harare City Council many years ago to provide sports and recreation
facilities for club members who were almost all railway workers.
Apart from the Roadport deal, Clr Mafume said Harare City
will also demolish tuckshops that were built at Raylton Sports Club as that was
done against the terms of the lease agreement with the National Railways of
Zimbabwe.
Roadport started operations in the late 1990s and serves
travellers going to destinations in SADC and some parts of East Africa by bus.
“In fact, the whole Raylton Club, which we leased out to
the NRZ, instead of building bullet trains, they are building tuckshops. We are
going to demolish the tuckshops. We are going to demolish the structure that is
there on account that we have not benefited anything as a city and the
residents have not benefited anything,” he said.
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