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Tsvangirai's shadow cabinet meets
13 Feb 2014 at 15:29hrs | Views
Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai today chaired the third MDC-T shadow cabinet meeting of 2014 which discussed various issues affecting the economy and the people of Zimbabwe.
Among the major issues discussed in the five-hour meeting of today's MDC-T shadow cabinet were corruption, floods in Masvingo and the low pass rate as reflected by the Ordinary Level results.
On corruption, the shadow cabinet noted that this had become cancerous and has now seriously affected all sectors of the economy. The shadow cabinet was directed with coming up with a corruption index, to which every Shadow Minister was tasked to present a report at the next meeting on how this scourge had affected all the sectors and areas under their purview.
The meeting also noted that parastatals were an avenue for Zanu-PF to finance their electoral campaigns and factional wars and there was no way the same party would have truly embraced the corporate governance framework for the country's public entities.
The MDC-T resolved that the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission must be capacitated to adequately execute its Constitutional mandate without undue influence as happened when it was stopped from investigating three Zanu-PF Ministers. Instead, it was the ZACC commissioners themselves who were arrested by the police.
The MDC-T called for the immediate arrest of all those who have been implicated so far. It called for the setting up of a Commission of Inquiry, led by a retired judge, to investigate this dangerous scourge that has negatively undermined economic development in the country. The MDC-T noted that there was endemic corruption in the country beyond the issue of obscene perks and salaries to the extent that it needed further and deeper investigation by a Commission of Inquiry.
On the floods that have displaced thousands of people in Masvingo, the MDC-T said the government had a responsibility to make sure that all Zimbabweans affected got proper accommodation and compensation in the case of all those who had lost property due to the floods.
On education, it noted the low pass rate of around 20 percent in the 2013 Ordinary Level examinations.
It was resolved that government had to investigate and address all the factors that continue to cause the low national pass rate. These factors include the pathetic working conditions of teachers who are among the civil servants that government has only this month failed to pay the salaries agreed in January with their representative unions.
The MDC-T shadow cabinet meets on Thursday after every two weeks.
Among the major issues discussed in the five-hour meeting of today's MDC-T shadow cabinet were corruption, floods in Masvingo and the low pass rate as reflected by the Ordinary Level results.
On corruption, the shadow cabinet noted that this had become cancerous and has now seriously affected all sectors of the economy. The shadow cabinet was directed with coming up with a corruption index, to which every Shadow Minister was tasked to present a report at the next meeting on how this scourge had affected all the sectors and areas under their purview.
The meeting also noted that parastatals were an avenue for Zanu-PF to finance their electoral campaigns and factional wars and there was no way the same party would have truly embraced the corporate governance framework for the country's public entities.
The MDC-T resolved that the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission must be capacitated to adequately execute its Constitutional mandate without undue influence as happened when it was stopped from investigating three Zanu-PF Ministers. Instead, it was the ZACC commissioners themselves who were arrested by the police.
On the floods that have displaced thousands of people in Masvingo, the MDC-T said the government had a responsibility to make sure that all Zimbabweans affected got proper accommodation and compensation in the case of all those who had lost property due to the floods.
On education, it noted the low pass rate of around 20 percent in the 2013 Ordinary Level examinations.
It was resolved that government had to investigate and address all the factors that continue to cause the low national pass rate. These factors include the pathetic working conditions of teachers who are among the civil servants that government has only this month failed to pay the salaries agreed in January with their representative unions.
The MDC-T shadow cabinet meets on Thursday after every two weeks.
Source - Bo24news
