IRINGA Municipal Council (IMC) plans to raise the revenue collection from 2.5 billion shillings to reach seven billion shillings during the 2016/2017 financial year in order to improve and provide key social services for people, hence economic development.
Iringa Urban Municipal Mayor Alex Kimbe made the statement in his New Year message when he was addressing a public meeting organized by Chama cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (CHADEMA) meant to thank Iringa residents for voting them into power in which they won the parliamentary seat and 14 seats for ward councilors.
The mayor who is ward councilor for Isakalilo Ward (CHADEMA) in his new year message during public rally held at Mwembetogwa grounds said he thanked the Iringa urban residents for trusting them by giving them a landslide victory during the October 25, 2015 general elections in which the won a parliamentary seat and 14 out 18 wards.
Iringa urban Constituency Member of Parliament Rev. Peter Msigwa (CHADEMA) said together with the full council members in collaboration council experts they have planned to improve the town council to become a city in the near future and urged the municipal authority to survey as many plots as possible so that they can avoid squatter houses.
Rev. Msigwa said the problem of squatting in Iringa town is due to lack of demarcated plots which forced people build houses in unlawful areas which later on demolished by the government for not following the procedures of town council by-laws.
He said there should be no urban farming to be conducted within the municipal council area but such farming practice should be done outside the urban area.
He said that there some people with financial power possessing large areas of land in town and was practicing commercial farming instead doing such kind of farming outside the urban center, adding that all those people with bigger lands, their lands should be re-demarcated and give land to people who don’t have land.
During the meeting, attended also by special seats members of parliament Suzan Mgonokulima (CHADEMA) and Grace Tendega (CHADEMA), Mayor of the Municipality of Iringa Alex Kimbe and all councilors of the party, Rev. Msigwa said apart from the traders, the municipal council councilors will cross-check with the statements of payment taxes, especially the buildings of Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCM) in Iringa which he claimed that they were tax invaders.
"There are allegations that puts CCM here Iringa not paying taxes on his various buildings. These buildings including Samora memorial stadium, CCM Regional office building and also some business stalls popularly known as ‘Vibanda vya CCM’, "Rev. Msigwa said.
MP Msigwa said they will do the verification in all these buildings to make sure there is legitimacy of the government which enables them to collect taxes from various projects paid the required taxes.
On her part, CHADEMA Regional Party Secretary Suzan Mgonokulima has asked Iringa residents not to doubt their performance of elected opposition party leaders but should trust them they will undertake the development that was true for the municipality and his people.
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