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Senator Coltart slams inclusive government
23 Jun 2012 at 13:52hrs | Views
Education, Sports, Arts and Culture Minister David Coltart has attacked Zimbabwe's ruling elite for squandering on foreign travels what he says was three times more than his ministry's 2012 budgetary allocation.
Coltart told guests at a United States Achievers Programme (USAP) graduation ceremony in Harare on Friday, he was frustrated with the continued lack of commitment by the country's government to prioritise education.
"Our priorities are wrong. We are not valuing education sufficiently," Coltart said, "I have complained about this last year in the context of the disproportionate amounts being spent on foreign travel in relation to education and tragically it continues this year. We have spent three times more on foreign travels than we have spent this year on non salary education matters."
Coltart did not reveal how much this was.
The MDC-N senator for Bulawayo South lamented what he said was even the international community's propensity to spend more on defence as opposed to education.
Coltart told guests at a United States Achievers Programme (USAP) graduation ceremony in Harare on Friday, he was frustrated with the continued lack of commitment by the country's government to prioritise education.
"Our priorities are wrong. We are not valuing education sufficiently," Coltart said, "I have complained about this last year in the context of the disproportionate amounts being spent on foreign travel in relation to education and tragically it continues this year. We have spent three times more on foreign travels than we have spent this year on non salary education matters."
Coltart did not reveal how much this was.
The MDC-N senator for Bulawayo South lamented what he said was even the international community's propensity to spend more on defence as opposed to education.
Source - radiovop
