ZANU-PF and MDC battle to appease the electorate

Hardly four months after the elections, the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front and the Movement for Democratic Change are battling to appease the electorate with the MDC saying it will establish Constituency Development Funds while ZANU-PF says it will monitor project implementation by its legislators.

Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai said on Monday evening that all Members of Parliament from his party would establish Constituency Development Funds to cushion the electorate from the vagaries of poverty created by the ZANU-PF government.
“The MPs will create MDC constituency development funds as the people are suffering with companies closing down,” Tsvangirai said.

ZANU-PF chairman Simon Khaya Moyo said party legislators should embark on projects agreed on by the people within the next three months as the party will be carrying out an audit in January to see what each MP was doing.

He said each MP will be required to submit a report on what he or she was doing and the party would go out to the constituencies to verify whether the MPs were carrying out projects in their reports.

Both Tsvangirai and Moyo did not say where they will be getting money to set up the CDFs or to implement their projects.

Simon Khaya Moyo was backed by Information Minister Jonathan Moyo who said members of ZANU-PF should stop squabbling about succession and concentrate on implementing the Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformation (Zim Asset).

“This new policy is a results-oriented one. The policy is not about story telling narratives which show off the good English our bureaucrats have. It is more a specific implementation matrix where each cluster outlined is defined by key results which are time framed, based on quick wins where people have to see results now,” he said.

President Robert Mugabe said he did not want to be told that there were not funds to implement Zim Asset.

“Don’t tell us we do not have money to steer Zim Asset. We have gold everywhere and it is going to South Africa through makorokoza. Kune tumagroups, ndege dzinomhara musango and there are people ready to receive those boxes of raw gold. That must stop,” he said.

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