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Chiefs are being greedy - Chigwedere
12 Mar 2012 at 10:47hrs | Views
Zanu-PF last week clashed with their strategic ally traditional chiefs with Vice-President John Nkomo shooting down their demands to be part of community share ownership schemes with miners and Mash East governor Aeneas Chigwedere accusing them of being greedy.
Officially closing the Chiefs Council annual conference in Bulawayo Friday, Nkomo advised chiefs to concentrate on their core roles of leading their communities instead of spreading their tentacles to business.
On Wednesday, the chiefs made a list of demands to government including to be provided with guns, diplomatic passports, farms, new cars and part of the proceeds from the governments community share ownership scheme under the indigenisation programme as part of their benefits, saying this was in tandem with their royal status.
On Thursday, Chigwedere, who is a Zanu-PF central committee member also regarded as an authority in traditional matters, was the first to take a shot at the traditional leaders.
He accused them of over-demanding in claiming better conditions of service at the expense of community welfare, saying this had the effect of reducing the Chiefs Council to a trade union.
Meanwhile, government has not made any funding available for chiefs to buy all-terrain vehicles this year, Local Government minister Ignatius Chombo has said
Officially closing the Chiefs Council annual conference in Bulawayo Friday, Nkomo advised chiefs to concentrate on their core roles of leading their communities instead of spreading their tentacles to business.
On Wednesday, the chiefs made a list of demands to government including to be provided with guns, diplomatic passports, farms, new cars and part of the proceeds from the governments community share ownership scheme under the indigenisation programme as part of their benefits, saying this was in tandem with their royal status.
On Thursday, Chigwedere, who is a Zanu-PF central committee member also regarded as an authority in traditional matters, was the first to take a shot at the traditional leaders.
He accused them of over-demanding in claiming better conditions of service at the expense of community welfare, saying this had the effect of reducing the Chiefs Council to a trade union.
Meanwhile, government has not made any funding available for chiefs to buy all-terrain vehicles this year, Local Government minister Ignatius Chombo has said
Source - NewsDay
