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Furious citizens burst on budget consultative meeting
15 Sep 2016 at 12:56hrs | Views
Residents of Mvurwi Mashonaland Central province went hey wire in a budget consultative meeting held at Mvurwi community hall this morning.
The meeting which was being chaired by Gokwe Legislature Dorothy Mangami in company of other legislatures Killen Sibanda, Felise Tapiwa, Jaison Marange, Godfrey Maremaure and Tapiwa Mashakada ended up being a political gathering.
A fair attendance of 102 residents out of which ten people spoke and the rest were mere audience waiting to be dismissed.
Speakers spoke more on healthy, education and bond notes to be looked at with an eagle's eye.
A member of Mvurwi Resident Association Wardlove Kamuzonde bemoaned the huge number of the executive who are just blowing government funds.
"My plea is that you must submit our suggestions to the house of assembly and assist the general population and not to spend government resources roaming around globe.
I suggest the government to cut the number of executive members because there are too many and most of them are corrupt," explained Kamuzonde
Additionally, another concerned citizen Tonderai Samhu had no kind words for Finance Minister Patrick Antony Chinamasa and government for the pending decision to introduce bond notes in the budget.
The delegation here present please go and tell the minister to keep the bond notes for him self we do not need them at all in the budget,rather they should look for the missing US$15 Billion and assist the elderly and youths who are languishing in poverty," fumed Samhu.
Emmanuel Nkambala had no soft words for the Ministry of Defence that is being emphasized and suggested the government to take note of agriculture and education sector.
"The government should not just concentrate on the Ministry of Defence instead they should put more money into agriculture and based on pre season calculations by Agritex for example at the Grain Marketing Board farmers deliver their maize there and are not paid but Agritex would have done statics of the yield expected. Government should therefore inject money to the GMB based on the expected yield so that farmers can get their payments timeously, Money should be disbursed on priorities that benefit the entire nation not on the grounds of powerful ministries (security sector).
Primary education should be free and excelling students should be offered study grants and government should pay the Basic Education Assistance Model in time to students who qualify," lamented Nkambala
However, Onward Tembure sympathised with the government and called for every Zimbabwean to understand the crippling economy.
"Let us all remember that the country is under sanctions hence the government is broke like any other person here present, looking at this team facilitating this program they came with a bus if they had money they should have come with their own cars but government is broke so let us continue to pray that things will normalise, said Tembure.
Meanwhile, another budget consultative meeting will be held in the Bindura today, 1400hr to 1600hr at Tendai hall.
The meeting which was being chaired by Gokwe Legislature Dorothy Mangami in company of other legislatures Killen Sibanda, Felise Tapiwa, Jaison Marange, Godfrey Maremaure and Tapiwa Mashakada ended up being a political gathering.
A fair attendance of 102 residents out of which ten people spoke and the rest were mere audience waiting to be dismissed.
Speakers spoke more on healthy, education and bond notes to be looked at with an eagle's eye.
A member of Mvurwi Resident Association Wardlove Kamuzonde bemoaned the huge number of the executive who are just blowing government funds.
"My plea is that you must submit our suggestions to the house of assembly and assist the general population and not to spend government resources roaming around globe.
I suggest the government to cut the number of executive members because there are too many and most of them are corrupt," explained Kamuzonde
Additionally, another concerned citizen Tonderai Samhu had no kind words for Finance Minister Patrick Antony Chinamasa and government for the pending decision to introduce bond notes in the budget.
The delegation here present please go and tell the minister to keep the bond notes for him self we do not need them at all in the budget,rather they should look for the missing US$15 Billion and assist the elderly and youths who are languishing in poverty," fumed Samhu.
Emmanuel Nkambala had no soft words for the Ministry of Defence that is being emphasized and suggested the government to take note of agriculture and education sector.
"The government should not just concentrate on the Ministry of Defence instead they should put more money into agriculture and based on pre season calculations by Agritex for example at the Grain Marketing Board farmers deliver their maize there and are not paid but Agritex would have done statics of the yield expected. Government should therefore inject money to the GMB based on the expected yield so that farmers can get their payments timeously, Money should be disbursed on priorities that benefit the entire nation not on the grounds of powerful ministries (security sector).
Primary education should be free and excelling students should be offered study grants and government should pay the Basic Education Assistance Model in time to students who qualify," lamented Nkambala
However, Onward Tembure sympathised with the government and called for every Zimbabwean to understand the crippling economy.
"Let us all remember that the country is under sanctions hence the government is broke like any other person here present, looking at this team facilitating this program they came with a bus if they had money they should have come with their own cars but government is broke so let us continue to pray that things will normalise, said Tembure.
Meanwhile, another budget consultative meeting will be held in the Bindura today, 1400hr to 1600hr at Tendai hall.
Source - Byo24News
