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Mugabe's nephew vows to keep ghost workers in govt
09 Oct 2015 at 08:58hrs | Views
Youth, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment minister Patrick Zhuwao has vowed to protect youth brigades under his ministry who constitute a significant number of the 75,000 ghost workers on the government payroll.
The ministry employees at least five youth officers in each of the country's 1200 wards who gobble up about $2.5 million in salaries every month.
The youth officers have no job description although they are known to mobile on behalf of Zanu-PF during election.
Meanwhile, knives are out for Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa over his arrears clearance strategy presented to three multilateral creditors in Lima, Peru, yesterday in which government committed itself to paying off the staggering $1.8 billion overdue obligations by April next year.
Chinamasa outlined the arrears clearance strategy, developing a new Comprehensive Financing Programme supported by the AfDB, IMF, and the World Bank that attracts long term financing to promote growth and debt sustainability.
However Zanu-PF insiders say some hardliners in Zanu-PF are opposing the Chinamasa's debt strategy saying the proposed raft of reforms which include the measures to reduce the public sector wage bill could backfire for President Robert Mugabe and the ruling party in the next election.
The ministry employees at least five youth officers in each of the country's 1200 wards who gobble up about $2.5 million in salaries every month.
The youth officers have no job description although they are known to mobile on behalf of Zanu-PF during election.
Meanwhile, knives are out for Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa over his arrears clearance strategy presented to three multilateral creditors in Lima, Peru, yesterday in which government committed itself to paying off the staggering $1.8 billion overdue obligations by April next year.
Chinamasa outlined the arrears clearance strategy, developing a new Comprehensive Financing Programme supported by the AfDB, IMF, and the World Bank that attracts long term financing to promote growth and debt sustainability.
However Zanu-PF insiders say some hardliners in Zanu-PF are opposing the Chinamasa's debt strategy saying the proposed raft of reforms which include the measures to reduce the public sector wage bill could backfire for President Robert Mugabe and the ruling party in the next election.
Source - Zim Ind
