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President Emmerson Mnangagwa has summoned Members of Parliament to an Extraordinary Sitting to go through the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) Preliminary Delimitation Report on Friday, 6th January 2023.
Embattled opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) MPs have seemingly defied their leader Nelson Chamisa again and justified the controversial US$40 000 loan forwarded to them by President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration. The opposition MPs are being blasted by critics for conniving with Zanu-PF legislators to accept a loan facility that is viewed as a bribe from Mnangagwa ahead of 2023 elections.
Norton legislator Temba Mliswa has defended the decision by President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration to pay each MP US$40,000 one off payments, totalling US$14 million for 350 members using taxpayers money a few months before elections.
In a move that seemingly exposes the unwillingness of both Zanu-PF and opposition MPs to resolve the economic challenges facing Zimbabwe, the legislators have controversially agreed to be paid US$40,000 one off payments, totalling US$14 million for 350 members, funded by taxpayers.
“Today at the Post Office, it was just like they are tanked cattle. It was an eyesore seeing people crowded at the bank. All those elderly we are seeing are getting USD5 per month. Are we serious that someone is getting USD5 per month? Cooking oil on its own is USD6 without sugar. Some of them stay in the rural areas and they get on an omnibus to get USD5.” Zanu-PF Bindura South legislator Remigious Matangira
Members of Parliament are still demanding that the National Assembly build them offices in their respective constituencies.
On Tuesday, the matter was brought to light by MDC-T legislator David Tekeshe who reminded the speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda that three years had gone by while the promise to build constituency offices for parliamentarians had not been fulfilled.
It’s two weeks after his demise and subsequent burial, but Zimdancehall chanter and liberation hero Soul Jah Love — born Soul Muzavazi Musaka — continues to make waves from the grave.
Opposition MDC-T youth leader Alfred Dzirutwe has accused the Thokozani Khupe led party of lacking strategy, adding that the party’s use of “vindictive recalls” was “worrisome.”
Parliament will not discriminate between Members of Parliament who hold positions in the august House and those who do not, in the allocation of resources meant for their car scheme.
As Treasury prepares to splurge millions of scarce United States dollars on luxury utility vehicles (SUVs) for legislators serving in the ninth Parliament, MDC representatives and their leader Nelson Chamisa, are in a quandary as to what to do — after their Zanu PF counterparts recently decided not to take up the vehicles.