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Coltart lash-out at insensitive Govt
15 Dec 2015 at 14:34hrs | Views
FORMER Education minister David Coltart has vent his anger on insensitive Government over the plight of thousands of pensioners who are still access their pay-outs.
A vast majority are resorted to sleep outside banking halls in queues.
They are still to access November hand-outs and government is tight lipped on the matter.
On Tuesday afternoon, Coltart took to his official twitter account to attack the Zanu PF led administration.
He wrote :
"Only an utterly callous government would hold a lavish conference in Victoria Falls and yet not pay its pensioners their due.
"Chinamasa has remained silent about civil servants' bonuses and now has his lipped sealed re the non-payment yet of November pensions.
"ZANU PF think they can just ignore the plight of pensioners by keeping quiet about when they are going to be paid
"Zimbabweans deserve a better government than the chaotic ZANU PF sham. Shameful foreign trips galore & Benzes at the expense of pensioners.
"It is utterly bizarre that its almost Christmas and yet the ZANU PF government remains silent about its non payment of November pensions.
"Imagine what would happen in any democracy if pensioners were not paid on due date never mind half way thru the following month."
Public Service minister Prisca Mupfumira is quoted as saying that the uniformed forces who were scheduled to start receiving their bonuses last month had not been paid their dues because of a lack of funds.
She also said that she was not sure when the money for bonuses was going to be made available by the fiscus - although she reiterated the government's commitment to fulfil Mugabe's promise.
"We are going with what the president said that government workers will get bonuses. Unfortunately, our cash inflows have not improved and so we could not pay the money in November.
"As it is, I am not in a position to answer the when part of your question because we have not received information from Treasury that cash inflows have improved. So, the best person to answer that is the Finance minister," Mupfumira said.
In April this year, Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa - whose pragmatic approach to his work has won him wide praise - announced that the government had suspended civil servants' bonuses until 2017, owing to the country's shrinking tax base.
A vast majority are resorted to sleep outside banking halls in queues.
They are still to access November hand-outs and government is tight lipped on the matter.
On Tuesday afternoon, Coltart took to his official twitter account to attack the Zanu PF led administration.
He wrote :
"Only an utterly callous government would hold a lavish conference in Victoria Falls and yet not pay its pensioners their due.
"Chinamasa has remained silent about civil servants' bonuses and now has his lipped sealed re the non-payment yet of November pensions.
"ZANU PF think they can just ignore the plight of pensioners by keeping quiet about when they are going to be paid
"Zimbabweans deserve a better government than the chaotic ZANU PF sham. Shameful foreign trips galore & Benzes at the expense of pensioners.
"It is utterly bizarre that its almost Christmas and yet the ZANU PF government remains silent about its non payment of November pensions.
"Imagine what would happen in any democracy if pensioners were not paid on due date never mind half way thru the following month."
Public Service minister Prisca Mupfumira is quoted as saying that the uniformed forces who were scheduled to start receiving their bonuses last month had not been paid their dues because of a lack of funds.
She also said that she was not sure when the money for bonuses was going to be made available by the fiscus - although she reiterated the government's commitment to fulfil Mugabe's promise.
"We are going with what the president said that government workers will get bonuses. Unfortunately, our cash inflows have not improved and so we could not pay the money in November.
"As it is, I am not in a position to answer the when part of your question because we have not received information from Treasury that cash inflows have improved. So, the best person to answer that is the Finance minister," Mupfumira said.
In April this year, Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa - whose pragmatic approach to his work has won him wide praise - announced that the government had suspended civil servants' bonuses until 2017, owing to the country's shrinking tax base.
Source - Byo24News
