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MPs want diplomatic passports
16 May 2015 at 11:25hrs | Views
MEMBERS of Parliament have said they want diplomatic passports to enable them to efficiently carry out their duties when outside the country on official business.Diplomatic passports are issued to officials who travel internationally on State business.
The demand came up during a Zanu-PF caucus meeting in Harare on Wednesady where the party's MPs also said Parliament must buy them fuel from government dealers and not from the private sector.
In the past, MPs used to fuel at CMED depots.
Zanu-PF Chief Whip Joram Gumbo said: "MPs raised concern that it was only Zimbabwean legislators in the whole of Africa who don't have diplomatic passports.
"They requested that the Minister of Foreign Affairs facilitates that they get diplomatic passports so that when they travel out of the country on official business they may do so efficiently without facing challenges. I told them that the Standing Rules and Orders Committee was already seized with the matter. The request has already been forwarded to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs."
Gumbo said MPs also urged Parliament to buy fuel for legislators from Petrotrade, a government company.
The demand came up during a Zanu-PF caucus meeting in Harare on Wednesady where the party's MPs also said Parliament must buy them fuel from government dealers and not from the private sector.
In the past, MPs used to fuel at CMED depots.
"They requested that the Minister of Foreign Affairs facilitates that they get diplomatic passports so that when they travel out of the country on official business they may do so efficiently without facing challenges. I told them that the Standing Rules and Orders Committee was already seized with the matter. The request has already been forwarded to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs."
Gumbo said MPs also urged Parliament to buy fuel for legislators from Petrotrade, a government company.
Source - chronicle
