Marondera Central MP

MARONDERA: Informal traders in the Mashonaland East town are up in arms after the council hired Zanu PF aligned vendors to help municipal police drive out their colleagues from the CBD. Marondera council, which is failing to raise money to retrench over 200 employees, has increased its bloated workforce by employing some vendors as security police officers. The new recruits are mandated to bar fellow vendors from trading at undesignated places. Affected vendors feel betrayed…