Church denominations, Minister Dokora agrees to discuss concerns around the pledge

The leader of the church denominations Shingi Munyeza has said the church and the Minister of Primary and Secondary education Lazarus Dokora have met and agreed to discuss on the concerns raised concerning the National pledge.

"Many of us have been confused, angered and alarmed by the Sunday Mail article which had the headline "Scripture Union Barred From Schools". I would like to put clarity to this confusion," Munyeza said.

"We had a very progressive and amicable meeting with Hon Minister Dokora, The Minister of Primary and Secondary Education on 15 April 2016. We met under the auspices of Zimbabwe Heads of Christian Denomination and I chaired the meeting on behalf of our Chairman, Bishop Mukuwanda."

He said in this meeting we agreed with the Minister on that the church and Ministry discuss the concerns around the pledge, the church and Ministry come up with an MOU that will formalize the involvement of Scripture Union in public schools, this process is going on well and we hope to finalize this with the ministry soon and  the Ministry needs 2056 new schools and the church committed build as many schools as it can to meet this demand and mitigate the shortage.

"This again will be structured between the Ministry and the church. I therefore urge us to pray for everyone involved that there be wisdom and unity as we build the nation together in the education sector," he said.