By Luke Tamborinyoka
Today, I woke up to find The Herald informing me that I am a civil servant, a status I know nothing about. In 2010, I joined the Prime Minister’s Office from Harvest House, where I had worked for six years as its Director of Information and Publicity.
Upon joining the PM’s Office, I was never attested into the civil service ostensibly because they said I was a party activist, only to read in today’s newspaper that I am a civil servant.
Zimbabweans know The Herald as the home of fiction, but today they beat their own record by telling me of my civil servant status which I am not aware of.
For the record, I have never been attested into government service, don’t have an EC number and have never received any salary from my purported employer. If this fiction is anything to go by, then this government owes me a salary for three full years!
My so-called civil servant status is one that apart from myself, neither my boss nor the former chief secretary in the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers, Ian Makone, is aware of this status.
It is a status that only Tendai Mugabe and George Charamba know about and not me, the purported civil servant. The two should tell and show the world any evidence they have that I am a civil servant including any documents and/or contracts that I signed when I joined the civil service.
I am a proud MDC cadre and cannot be bound by regulations of a civil service that I’m not part of. If it is now in vogue to ask people to resign from institutions that they have never joined, then Charamba should resign from the MDC.
I see that The Herald has even gone on to create a fictitious date of August 2011 as the date on which I was attested into the civil service.
I would be happy to see the evidence!
Luke Tamborinyoka
Spokesperson to MDC President, Morgan Tsvangirai
