Zimbabwean Parliamentary Portfolio Committee Chairpersons have requested the Treasury to provide them with new vehicles, arguing that the ones issued to them just a few months ago have become worn out from extensive use.
This request was made by Marondera Central MP Caston Matewu (CCC) during a review of the national budget for 2025.
Matewu said the existing vehicles have deteriorated, making it difficult for them to carry out their duties effectively. He said (via OpenParly):
All the parliamentary portfolio committee chairpersons agree with me that we are constantly on the move every week.
Currently, if you look at the distance covered by our vehicles, mine has already reached 40,000 kilometres because we are always travelling as chairpersons.
So, we were requesting that in the 2025 budget, you allocate funds for us to purchase second vehicles, but not expensive ones, so that we can efficiently perform our parliamentary duties as outlined in our Standing Orders.”
The current members of parliament were elected in August 2023 and received their vehicles at the beginning of this year.
In a post on X, Matewu said that he was merely conveying resolutions from a recent Chairpersons’ meeting. Said Matewu:
Just to make it clear, I was simply reading out resolutions from Chairpersons meeting who had requested a low cost vehicle for traveling across the country weekly in executing their duties, NOT giving my personal views; Personally I had already expressed my feelings.
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Corruptmore Looto · 3 months ago
What do you expect with the terrible road infrastructure in the country especially in the rural areas. Another thing, these guys don't handle those vehicles with care, a phenomenon which is also pretty rife among government employees. To fix this mess, AVM should be supported in investing in assembling bakkies, they should just import engines and the gearboxes but everything else should be made here just like they did with them buses in the 90s, using real steel and making the cars as tough as possible so as to withstand the terrible road conditions and bad car handling among the drivers, no more Fords and Isuzus for them Mps since they cannot handle those cars. The vehicles should just be simple, no modern trinkets just basic stuff, our industry would also benefit from such an initiative but as usual this government will not do that they will rather choose to continue importing vehicles than support local jobs just to make sure they drive the latest models using tax payer funds.
· 3 months ago
Allow me to quote one American actor who has become a great American
president: «The government does not solve our problems. The government
is our problem.»
I do not understand our government that only shrugs and says: «There is
nothing we can do.» Not true. You can. You can take a sheet of paper and
a pen and free your seats for those who think about the next generations
and not about the next election! Do it and people will appreciate that.
Your applause is pretty light…I guess not everyone likes what I’m saying?
Too bad, since it’s not me, but the people who are saying that. our citizens are tired of the experienced, pompous
system politicians who over the 28 years, have created a country of
opportunities — the opportunities to bribe, steal and pluck the resources.
We will build the country of other opportunities — the one where all are
equal before the law and where all the rules are honest and transparent,
the same for everyone. And for that, we need people in power who will
serve the people. This is why I really do not want the president pictures in your
offices, for the President is not an icon, an idol or a portrait. Hang your
kids' photos instead, and look at them each time you are making a
decision.
Except · 3 months ago
To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is
now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who
fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and
dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the
people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish…
Soldiers! don’t give yourselves to brutes - men who despise you -
enslave you - who regiment your lives - tell you what to do - what to
think and what to feel! Who drill you - diet you - treat you like cattle, use
you as cannon fodder. Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men -
machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not
machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of
humanity in your hearts! You don’t hate! Only the unloved hate - the
unloved and the unnatural! Soldiers! Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for
liberty!
In the 17th Chapter of St Luke it is written: “the Kingdom of God is
within man” - not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you!
You, the people have the power - the power to create machines. The
power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make
this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.
Then - in the name of democracy - let us use that power - let us all
unite. Let us fight for a new world - a decent world that will give men a
chance to work - that will give youth a future and old age a security. By
the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie!
They do not fulfil that promise. They never will!
Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people! Now let us fight
to fulfil that promise! Let us fight to free the world - to do away with
national barriers - to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let
us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will
lead to all men’s happiness. Soldiers! in the name of democracy, let us
all unite!
Mudhibhisi
· 3 months ago
Hameni