MINISTRY of Local Government and Rural Development Technical Services Permanent Secretary Nicholas Phiri says his ministry and local authorities have for some time been perceived to be corrupt, incompetent and inefficient but the new dawn government is on track in terms of rewriting this narrative. Speaking during the launch and handover of the Service Charter to the local authorities, last Friday, Phiri said the implementation of the charter would help the ministry and local authorities stay on the right track. “There was a point in this country that the moment you said the word council, the mental images that came in people’s minds were incompetence, inefficiency, corruption, delayed response time and all sorts of catalogues you could put and the...