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Zimbabwean legislators are proposing a raise in allowances for councillors, arguing that they are currently living in poverty and are unable to afford basic necessities like a funeral policy. Mberengwa West MP Tafanana Zhou supported the motion, citing the example of a councillor in his constituency who could not afford a funeral policy despite working for 15 years.
CHIREDZI – In another move that is going to be a litmus test to the independence of the Parliament of Zimbabwe, a Chiredzi man is set to petition Parliament over the recent recalls of 23 members of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC). He called for Parliament to enact a law that includes the public in the process.
Opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislators who were elected to enter the 10th Parliament have seemingly disregarded any idea of having a new harmonised general election following their decision to take the oath of office on Thursday.
Clerk of Parliament Kennedy Chokuda who was recently arrested for criminal abuse of office after he allegedly corruptly awarded tenders to shadowy company Blinart Investments to supply laptops to the National Assembly at USD$9200 each is still coming to work.
The Zimbabwe Anti-corruption Commission (ZACC) has arrested Clerk of Parliament Kennedy Mugove Chokuda for “Criminal Abuse of Duty as a Public Officer.”
Outspoken independent legislator Temba Mliswa says he feels that the Parliament of Zimbabwe is isolating him by failing to include him in key decision making committees in the National Assembly.
Former Finance Minister Tendai Biti has dismissed President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) describing it as “a self serving ego trip that missed an opportunity to lead”.
The Parliament of Zimbabwe has finally cancelled a tender it awarded to a shadowy company Blinart Investments which was blacklisted recently after trying to dupe the National Assembly of US$1,602,755. 77 in a deal to supply laptops at USD$9200 each.
Blinart Investments P/L, a company that was blacklisted after trying to dupe the Parliament of Zimbabwe of US$1,602,755. 77 in a deal to supply laptops has denied any wrongdoing. In an interview with Nehanda Radio, Blinart Investments representative Elizabeth Muchenje denied any wrongdoing saying they were not going to supply laptops only. She added that they did not even sign the contract.
HARARE – A dirty tender scheme spearheaded by Parliament of Zimbabwe top officials in cohorts with two corrupt companies — Blinart Investments and Mid-End Computers and Hardware — has been canceled by Treasury. The two companies were on Wednesday caught pants down trying to sell laptops to Parliament at US$9,000 each at a time that they are receiving weekly foreign currency allocation from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe.