Zanu-PF pushes forward MPs report submissions

Senior minister in President Robert Mugabe's office Simon Khaya Moyo says first the quarterly reports on the performance of Members of Parliament are expected at the end of May 2014.

Government had initially stated that the reports would be ready by the end of April, but Moyo said it was felt that members needed time to attend to their crops and other agricultural activities as it was the rainy season.

Khaya Moyo made the announcement, when he visited a local paint manufacturing company which has partnered Buhera South legislator Joseph Chinotimba in the painting of disadvantaged schools.

The reports, according to Khaya Moyo, were expected to outline what the concerned legislator did in mass mobilisation, meetings with chiefs and various leaders including opinion leaders and attending cell, district and provincial meetings.

In development, the legislators would be expected to tell the party their performance in terms of roads, bridges, dams, rural electrification programmes, hospitals/clinics, schools, water and sanitation among other infrastructural projects.

On the social front, legislators would have to spell out the performance in terms of child-headed families, orphans, the elderly, people living with disabilities, food supply, registration of children failing to raise fees and registration and documentation.

The legislators would have to spell out their operations on the economic front especially in agriculture, mining, industry and housing.

On agriculture, they would have to explain their performance around the issue of inputs, irrigation schemes, projects, land redistribution and mechanisation while in mining they would cover big projects and types of resources.

They are expected to inform the party of what they would have done in industry especially small to medium enterprises for youth and women.

The MPs would also be expected to tell the party of what they would have done in housing, for instance, the number of people on housing lists, land available for housing, application of the building brigade model and peri-urban land for agriculture.

They would also be expected to cover community share ownership schemes, youth games, women's programmes and cooperatives.