MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe has been given $7,4 million by the government. "That was gazetted and it will tell you who got what...
MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe has been given $7,4 million by the government.
"That was gazetted and it will tell you who got
what," Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi told The Standard.
"Why is there an outrage? I paid what was gazetted and
those who were not paid are not entitled to anything. Those who were supposed
to be paid were paid; those who were not supposed to be paid were not paid,
full stop. We followed due process and we gazetted, so surely, that is what it
is.
"They cannot use us to clean their house. "They
must simply follow the law and they must sweep their house alone and not find
someone to come and clean their house."
Charlton Hwende, the MDC Alliance secretary-general,
described the move by government as illegal. He vowed that the Nelson
Chamisa-led party would go to court over the matter.
"It is a big scandal. What we are going to do is,
first, we will make a police report because obviously someone is abusing his
authority as a government official by disbursing funds that were properly
gazetted in terms of the budget to a political entity that is not entitled to
those funds.
"That is a clear case of abuse of office and public
resources."
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