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Zanu-PF staff salaries up to date, says Khaya Moyo
27 Nov 2015 at 05:12hrs | Views
Zanu-PF secretary for Information and Publicity Simon Khaya Moyo yesterday dismissed as false claims by the Financial Gazette that workers for the ruling party had not been paid in the last six months.
Khaya Moyo said salary payments for staff of the revolutionary party were up to date and warned newspapers against peddling falsehoods.
"I have confirmed with the secretary for Administration (Ignatius Chombo) and he said there is nothing like that. We are up to date with payments for all our staff. Whoever told them that people are not being paid has total mischief."
Khaya Moyo is also Minister of Policy Coordination and Promotion of Socio Economic Ventures in the President's Office. "The bigger point is that we want to put it on record that the running of our party has nothing to do with the media, we do not run our party through the media," he said.
Khaya Moyo said the penchant to peddle falsehoods by the private media was the reason why he issued a warning against them during a Press conference soon after a Zanu-PF Politburo meeting on Wednesday. "I did appeal to the media that we must refrain from peddling falsehoods," he said. "We are not going to spend our energy focusing on falsehoods and mischief.
"Our focus is on the annual people's conference to be held in Victoria Falls next month, which focuses on the implementation on our economic blue-print Zim-Asset. We cannot be diverted by people who believe in unsubstantiated information."
Financial Gazette claimed in its issue yesterday that Zanu-PF was in the throes of financial woes, resulting in failure to pay scores of its employees for the last six months. It claimed that so thin was the party's financial base that it had been forced to dismiss some of its workers without paying them any exit packages.
It was also claimed that most of the workers were are now surviving on the goodwill of well-wishers, while others have turned to moon lighting. The newspaper claimed that investments that were ideally meant to feed income into party coffers are also in a crisis of their own, while some have all together collapsed.
It quoted nameless people it claimed were from party headquarters, saying they last received salaries in April.
Khaya Moyo said salary payments for staff of the revolutionary party were up to date and warned newspapers against peddling falsehoods.
"I have confirmed with the secretary for Administration (Ignatius Chombo) and he said there is nothing like that. We are up to date with payments for all our staff. Whoever told them that people are not being paid has total mischief."
Khaya Moyo is also Minister of Policy Coordination and Promotion of Socio Economic Ventures in the President's Office. "The bigger point is that we want to put it on record that the running of our party has nothing to do with the media, we do not run our party through the media," he said.
Khaya Moyo said the penchant to peddle falsehoods by the private media was the reason why he issued a warning against them during a Press conference soon after a Zanu-PF Politburo meeting on Wednesday. "I did appeal to the media that we must refrain from peddling falsehoods," he said. "We are not going to spend our energy focusing on falsehoods and mischief.
"Our focus is on the annual people's conference to be held in Victoria Falls next month, which focuses on the implementation on our economic blue-print Zim-Asset. We cannot be diverted by people who believe in unsubstantiated information."
Financial Gazette claimed in its issue yesterday that Zanu-PF was in the throes of financial woes, resulting in failure to pay scores of its employees for the last six months. It claimed that so thin was the party's financial base that it had been forced to dismiss some of its workers without paying them any exit packages.
It was also claimed that most of the workers were are now surviving on the goodwill of well-wishers, while others have turned to moon lighting. The newspaper claimed that investments that were ideally meant to feed income into party coffers are also in a crisis of their own, while some have all together collapsed.
It quoted nameless people it claimed were from party headquarters, saying they last received salaries in April.
Source - the herald
