By Christopher Makaza

Zvimba North Constituency House of Assembly member, Cde Marian Chombo (ZANU PF) is targeting to transform the Constituency focusing on employment creation, road rehabilitation, and rehabilitation of educational and healthy facilities among other critical areas.

Cde Chombo succeeded his former husband, Dr Ignatius Chombo and is among the three female politicians from the ruling party ZANU-PF who won National Assembly seat in the province.

In an interview with the Harare Post, Cde Chombo said most roads in her Constituency needed urgent attention as they were in a critical state due to heavy rains received last rain season which also affected roofs of school classroom blocks and that of clinics.

 “We have already started working on some parts of Banket-Raffingora road. That is our main and busy road. It connects us to Guruve in Mashonaland Central that’s why it was on top of our priorities.

“I hope to engage and work with all the key stakeholders in road rehabilitation including villagers who can chip in with labour,” she said.

Cde Chombo said poor state of roads had affected access to clinics and other service centres especially in the rainy season.

 “On our priority list, we also have schools, with shortage of classrooms. I want to make sure that children from my constituency have decent classrooms and enough textbooks just like any other developed schools.

 “I am also prioritising access to clean water. It has remained a cause for concern in the constituency. I am happy that I assisted in the drilling of close to eight boreholes in the constituency in 2011 and 2012 prior to 2013 election. We are also doing poultry projects around the constituency where we are assisting mainly women.

“I also hope to establish more clinics in the remotest parts of the constituency so that people have easy access to health care facilities,” she said.