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(TALKZIMBABWE) Tsvangirai's office secretly funded by US, says Moyo

Tsvangirai's office secretly funded by US, says Moyo
Floyd Nkomo
Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:09:00 +0000

THE FORMER Minister of Information and Publicity claims that the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe is being funded by the United States government to run a parallel structure that threatens the life of the inclusive Government.

Professor Jonathan Moyo claims that PM Morgan Tsvangirai is running a parallel government and paying some civil servants two salaries to further party interests rather than promote the inclusive Government.

The opposition leader, Tsvangirai signed an inter-party agreement with President Robert Mugabe and Prof Arthur Mutambara of a break-away faction of the MDC, to form an inclusive Government.

The agreement was signed on Sept. 11, 2008.

In a piece written for the Sunday Mail and also published by The Zimbabwe Guardian, Moyo claims that PM Tsvangirai has created a "government-in-government" and is paying some civil servants as much as US$700 when the rest of the civil servants receive a meagre US$140 salary.

Prof Moyo said the evidence is "already gathering like the clouds of a clear storm".

"Prime Minister Tsvangirai's office now has civil servants who are paid top up salaries by agents of various hostile foreign governments including USAID," claims Prof. Moyo.

"Some of these are working on the Prime Minister's partisan Newsletter and are reportedly being paid some US$700 a week while their Co-ordinator, Andrew Chadwick, and other directors-such as a well known lady lawyer who left a high paying job at Artherstone and Cook to join the Prime Minister's legal team-are earning at least US$7 000.00."

prof Moyo said this "has divided the MDC-T ranks and raised national security questions".

Claims Moyo: "Jacob Mafume who has been the American Embassy’s MDC-T link person under the payroll of USAID is now moving to the Prime Minister's office with his current remuneration package or better to scale up his work in the MDC-T's subversive government within the coalition government."

Moyo also claims that the Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office-Gorden Moyo-has set up an illegal office of the Prime Minister "manned by one Dumisani Matshazi outside the official government structures at the premises of Bulawayo Agenda, an NGO that is heavily funded by USAID to promote the MDC-T’s government within the inclusive government in Matabeleland."

Moyo, who is a political scientist, says that this is treasonous and any government employee who received top up salaries from another government would be prosecuted, in an other country.

"Anywhere else in the world, any civil servant who gets a secret top up salary from a foreign government would be prosecuted for treason."

Moyo says this action is similar to a system that was in place during Smith's apartheid era in Zimbabwe where "whites in the Rhodesian civil service were paid higher salaries than their black counterparts for doing similar or less work."

SECRET MEETINGS WITH US GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS

Last month PM Tsvangirai met secretly with United States Secretary of State during her visit to South Africa.

The PM masked his trip as a state visit to brief that country's president and current Sadc chair, Jacob Zuma, on the progress made thus far by the inclusive Government.

Although PM Tsvangirai told the nation that he was in South Africa to brief President Zuma on the progress made by the inclusive Government, he met secretly with US Secretary of State, Mrs Hillary Rodham Clinton, and did not brief Cabinet on that meeting.

Reports from the capital at the time said MDC-T officials had travelled to South Africa and met in secret with Clinton's delegation.

Various ministers have crossed the border into South Africa for secret meetings without following diplomatic protocol.

Minister of National Housing and Social Amenities and MDC-T member, Fidelis Mhashu was assaulted during an armed robbery in Bryanston, South Africa at around the time of Clinton's visit after visiting the country without following the right protocol.

South African police immediately dismissed negligence saying the minister, who is also MDC-T MP for Chitungwiza North should have followed protocol and asked for VIP protection from police.

Labels: COLOUR REVOLUTIONS, HILLARY CLINTON, MDC, MDC CORRUPTION, NEOCOLONIALISM, USAID

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