Economic Reform Assembly

*ERA reaction to handing over of vehicles to chiefs*

In as much as much as it is a noble idea to give our chiefs vehicles to use to carry out their constitutional mandates, Economic Reform Assembly condemns the move as we believe it was not done in the spirit of honesty and genuine interest of chiefs at heart. To start with, his Excellency the president of Zimbabwe CDE Munangagwa being only a few days in the office announced that all cars that had been bought for chiefs will be distributed to Government Departments as they have more use there, a few weeks down the line, new cars are bought for the chiefs again, nothing on the ground has changed that warrants chiefs to be given new cars save to the fact that there will be elections in a few months time.

We strongly believe that buying chiefs cars at a time when we are facing watershed elections is a way of "tooling" chiefs, bribing them as well as getting them ready to campaign for ZANU PF. The country has more pressing issues that urgently need the much needed foreign currency such as service delivery, infrastructure development, capital injection for some of our ailing industries, or even community development in those chiefs's ereas ie start irrigation projects, build dams etc... than splashing it on appeasing Chiefs by buying them expensive cars. The biggest questions we are all left with are, did we even have a budget for buying cars for the chiefs? Is this not tantamount to vote buying?

This shows that ZANU PF has not reformed in anyway, it only changed guard and it will continue with the mismanagement of the economy and it is clueless on how to tackle the major task of taking us out of the mess that they put us in, in the first place, they have only mastered the art of how to cling on to power for as long as it takes and by any means necessary even if it means bleeding the fiscus with unnecessary expenditures so long it keeps them in power.

There is need for our chiefs to be an independent and apolitica

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