(TALKZIMBABWE) Tsvangirai's staff not civil servants, says MDC-T party senator
Tsvangirai's staff not civil servants, says MDC-T party senatorRalph Mutema
Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:29:00 +0000
AN MDC-T senator says the people from his party who work in the Prime Minister Office with their salaries being paid for by the World Bank, are not civil servants. The shocking statement was made by MDC-T senator Obert Gutu in a heated debate aired on ZBC Current Affairs program Melting Pot recently.
Gutu also confirmed that 11 party functionaries are indeed working in the Prime Minister Office with their salaries being taken care of by the World Bank.
“There is a small bureau made up of about 11 people employed by the Prime Minister. The people are not civil servants,” revealed Senator Gutu.
Another guest on the same programme, former MDC-M member Gabriel Chaibva said these workers in PM’s office are masquerading as government workers yet at the same time receiving hefty salaries from Western institutions and NGOs to set up a parallel government.
“These people are there at the PM offices. They are associating with such organizations and receiving funding from the like of USAID and European government at the expense of the honest majority whom they claim to represent in the inclusive government.
"This really exposes the PM office agenda to run a parallel government,” said Chaibva.
The Prime Minister’s office has come under the spotlight from many political fronts with some analysts demanding transparency in its operations.
The selected elite within the Prime Minister’s Office are said to be earning salaries ranging between US$700 to US$7 000 while the majority of civil servants are earning an average of US$100.
Gutu's statement comes after the World Bank made an unusual confession that they were indeed secretly making extra payments to the Office of the Prime Minister which have not been approved by government.
Although Sen. Gutu said the staff were not civil servants, the WB confirmed that it was paying civil servants over and above their government salaries.
Dr Mungai Lenneiye of the World Bank office in Zimbabwe confirmed that the payments to civil servants were indeed being made through the multilateral lending agent.
Sen. Gutu's statement also contradicts Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office, Gorden Moyo's revelation in an interview with a UK based Zimbabwean radio station that the office of the PM was indeed receiving funds from the World Bank to supplement "the salaries of civil servants in that office".
Labels: GABRIEL CHAIBVA, MDC CORRUPTION, MORGAN TSVANGIRAI, OBERT GUTU, World Bank
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