Exclusive Picture: Chinotimba gets laptop

Headlines, News, Pictures — By admin on September 2, 2011 8:35 pm

Nelson Chamisa, Zimbabwe’s youthful Minister of Information Communication Technology (ICT), sent tongues wagging after giving a laptop to the notorious leader of the war veterans association Joseph Chinotimba. The laptop was part of a much praised e–government computer programme Chamisa initiated.

In this exclusive picture by Nehanda Radio.com Chinotimba can be seen gratefully accepting his laptop. Asked what he would use it for Chinotimba said “what do you use laptops for? It is a government exercise for people and I want to write down all the farms we took under the land reform programme, and also to have names of the remaining farms so that we take them and give people like you.”

Chamisa sourced over 300 laptops and printers and donated part of the consignment to the inclusive government. “After we had given laptops to ministers, permanent secretaries and principal directors, Cde Chinotimba came to our offices with a group of other war veterans. They said as farmers they wanted laptops to use in their farming activities, and that fits very well with our programme. We want farmers to use internet to enhance productivity,” he said.

“We said look, to the extent that there is appetite from Cde Chinotimba, we will satisfy that appetite. So it happened that Cde Chinotimba’s hands were happy recipients of the goodness of this ministry.  We are a government for everyone, we represent across the spectrum from the high end of society to the low end. Cde Chinotimba represents our being as a country, these are our war veterans we have to make sure that we empower them,” Chamisa said.

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