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Battling Mujuru turns to party members for funding
23 May 2017 at 10:16hrs | Views
Battling with its finances and racing against time to hold its inaugural congress, the Joyce Mujuru led National People's Party is considering turning to its party leaders across the country to raise money to finance the congress.
In a proposal by the party's finance committee leaked to Bulawayo24 News, the cash strapped party is considering getting contributions for the congress from all it's members recently elected into leadership positions at national and provincial levels.
According to the proposal each of the members of the party recently elected into the top six positions will be required to each contribute $5 000 towards the hosting of the congress. The six are President Mujuru and her two deputies Ambassador John Mvundura and Samuel Sipepa Nkomo, National Chairman Dzikamai Mavhaire, Treasurer General Engineer Wilbert Mubaiwa and Secretary General Gift Nyandoro.
Further down the line the 170 members (17 from each province) who were elected into the National Executive and the top six members of each Provincial Executive Committee will be required to contribute $200 each.
Other thirty eight members of the provincial executive committee in each province might have to part with $50 each to contribute towards the congress if the proposal goes through.
According to the proposal, the congress has a budget of almost $100 000 much of which will be directed into transporting the 4 000 delegates for the one day congress expected to be held at the end of this month.
The members' proposed contributions will only cater for half of the expected cost of the congress from which the finance committee will seek well wishers for the balance of the budget.
The party's congress has been postponed nearly on a monthly basis since July last year when it was initially set to be held. The reasons for the postponements have always been varied but it has since emerged that the stumbling block has always been the financing.
At the last scheduled date, April 28, party members from Matabeleland North threatened to boycott the congress after they had been ordered to fund their own means to transport themselves to Bulawayo where buses were going to transport them to and from Harare. The members wanted the buses to depart from their respective constituencies instead of Bulawayo.
In a proposal by the party's finance committee leaked to Bulawayo24 News, the cash strapped party is considering getting contributions for the congress from all it's members recently elected into leadership positions at national and provincial levels.
According to the proposal each of the members of the party recently elected into the top six positions will be required to each contribute $5 000 towards the hosting of the congress. The six are President Mujuru and her two deputies Ambassador John Mvundura and Samuel Sipepa Nkomo, National Chairman Dzikamai Mavhaire, Treasurer General Engineer Wilbert Mubaiwa and Secretary General Gift Nyandoro.
Further down the line the 170 members (17 from each province) who were elected into the National Executive and the top six members of each Provincial Executive Committee will be required to contribute $200 each.
Other thirty eight members of the provincial executive committee in each province might have to part with $50 each to contribute towards the congress if the proposal goes through.
According to the proposal, the congress has a budget of almost $100 000 much of which will be directed into transporting the 4 000 delegates for the one day congress expected to be held at the end of this month.
The members' proposed contributions will only cater for half of the expected cost of the congress from which the finance committee will seek well wishers for the balance of the budget.
The party's congress has been postponed nearly on a monthly basis since July last year when it was initially set to be held. The reasons for the postponements have always been varied but it has since emerged that the stumbling block has always been the financing.
At the last scheduled date, April 28, party members from Matabeleland North threatened to boycott the congress after they had been ordered to fund their own means to transport themselves to Bulawayo where buses were going to transport them to and from Harare. The members wanted the buses to depart from their respective constituencies instead of Bulawayo.
Source - Byo24News
