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Chinamasa, Biti fight over poll funds
28 May 2013 at 11:57hrs | Views
Finance minister Tendai Biti and his Justice counterpart Patrick Chinamasa are at loggerheads over the raising of funds to bankroll the ongoing voter registration exercise and elections later this year, amid concerns that the tiff might worsen relations in the inclusive government and further delay the polls.
Chinamasa at the weekend claimed that he has raised $25 million locally to finance the mandatory 30-day voter registration exercise following the signing into law of the new constitution by President Mugabe last Wednesday.
He claimed that he had previously raised $40 million for the referendum and $8 million for the mobile voter registration money he averred was not disbursed in full to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission and the Registrar of Voters.
But Biti denies assertions that some of the funds were diverted adding that Chinamasa had no mandate to secure funding for voter registration and elections.
Chinamasa at the weekend claimed that he has raised $25 million locally to finance the mandatory 30-day voter registration exercise following the signing into law of the new constitution by President Mugabe last Wednesday.
He claimed that he had previously raised $40 million for the referendum and $8 million for the mobile voter registration money he averred was not disbursed in full to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission and the Registrar of Voters.
But Biti denies assertions that some of the funds were diverted adding that Chinamasa had no mandate to secure funding for voter registration and elections.
Source - newsday
