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MPs who owe Zesa should be barred from parliament - MDC MP
23 Mar 2012 at 13:45hrs | Views
An uproar erupted in Parliament yesterday following suggestions by Bikita West MP Heya Shoko that MPs who owed Zesa thousands of dollars in unpaid bills should be barred from Parliament.
Shoko who was debating the Presidential speech said "President Mugabe said agriculture was the backbone of our economy, but these land grabbers are not paying their electricity bills to Zesa."
After Shoko labelled Zanu-PF MPs land grabbers, Zanu-PF MP for Uzumba Simbaneuta Mudarikwa called for a point of order with the Speaker of the House of Assembly, Lovemore Moyo.
Moyo said the call for a point of order was not warranted, and Shoko continued to name and shame Zanu PF MPs allegedly implicated in the Zesa scam.
It is high time we named and shamed these people because this country is not moving forward and we want to build (power) generation plants, yet we have MPs who are not paying bills and they attend Parliament dressed in expensive suits," Shoko said.
Shoko fingered Mwenezi East MP Kudakwashe Bhasikiti, whom he said owed $77 000, Chivi Central MP Munyaradzi Paul Mangwana ($74 000), Masvingo provincial governor Titus Maluleke($16 000), Manicaland provincial governor Christopher Mushohwe, whom he described as the chief of electricity defaulters with a bill of $367 000, and Home Affairs co-minister Kembo Mohadi with a bill of $44 000.
Meanwhile, parliament is probing the distribution of inputs for the 2011/2012 agricultural season as it emerged Police Commissioner General Augustine Chihuri accessed 80 tonnes of fertiliser from the GMB depot in Shamva for use at his Inyika Farm while the majority of small scale farmers failed to get even a single bag. Indigenisation minister Saviour Kasukuwere accessed 24 tonnes for his Cornucopia Farm from the Concession depot while Brigadier General Hebert Chingono got 21 tonnes for use at Pentland Farm.
Mashonaland West governor got 60 tonnes from Banket depot among other named big wigs.
Shoko who was debating the Presidential speech said "President Mugabe said agriculture was the backbone of our economy, but these land grabbers are not paying their electricity bills to Zesa."
After Shoko labelled Zanu-PF MPs land grabbers, Zanu-PF MP for Uzumba Simbaneuta Mudarikwa called for a point of order with the Speaker of the House of Assembly, Lovemore Moyo.
Moyo said the call for a point of order was not warranted, and Shoko continued to name and shame Zanu PF MPs allegedly implicated in the Zesa scam.
It is high time we named and shamed these people because this country is not moving forward and we want to build (power) generation plants, yet we have MPs who are not paying bills and they attend Parliament dressed in expensive suits," Shoko said.
Shoko fingered Mwenezi East MP Kudakwashe Bhasikiti, whom he said owed $77 000, Chivi Central MP Munyaradzi Paul Mangwana ($74 000), Masvingo provincial governor Titus Maluleke($16 000), Manicaland provincial governor Christopher Mushohwe, whom he described as the chief of electricity defaulters with a bill of $367 000, and Home Affairs co-minister Kembo Mohadi with a bill of $44 000.
Meanwhile, parliament is probing the distribution of inputs for the 2011/2012 agricultural season as it emerged Police Commissioner General Augustine Chihuri accessed 80 tonnes of fertiliser from the GMB depot in Shamva for use at his Inyika Farm while the majority of small scale farmers failed to get even a single bag. Indigenisation minister Saviour Kasukuwere accessed 24 tonnes for his Cornucopia Farm from the Concession depot while Brigadier General Hebert Chingono got 21 tonnes for use at Pentland Farm.
Mashonaland West governor got 60 tonnes from Banket depot among other named big wigs.
Source - Byo24News
