Luxury Vehicles can wait: Pupurai Togarepi.
By Zimbo24news Team
08 January 2018
ZANU PF Member of Parliament for Gutu South who is also the Party's Chief whip has boldly declared that his Party Parliamentary caucas agreed to forego their Parliamentary vehicles in solodarity with the nation's long suffering government.
He said this decision came as a result of their recognition of the state of our fiscus which he said could not afford to accomodate such luxuries at this moment.
Hon. Togarepi said his Party's Parliamentarians decided to lead by example while putting national interests first.
Hereunder is his full statement as published on the President's Facebook wall...
Our health sector has been bleeding for the past two decades but now as we seek to rebuild and invest in the critical sector we find ourselves confronted by a new challenge, the challenge of striking doctors who are demanding better conditions of service. Of course their concerns are genuine and require lasting solutions.
However, our economic situation, just like the health sector has bled for over a decade and the solutions so required to put the nation on a recovery path again are by no means simple but being implemented nonetheless as Zimbabwe rediscovers its lost glory.
As Zanu PF parliamentarians we are alive to these genuine concerns raised by doctors but also aware of government's fiscal position and we implore the doctors to negotiate in good faith and with Zimbabwe and the sick people in our hospitals at heart.
To play our part, however, small or little, we are ready to forgo the luxury vehicles that come with our parliamentary positions as we are representatives of less privileged people whose only access to health is public hospitals.
For those MPs who are desperate for vehicles we propose that when it is time to buy they be given affordable vehicles that allow them access to their constituencies but certainly not luxury vehicles in a sea of poverty. Let's allow government to deal with urgent issues and vehicles will be bought at the appropriate time.
We as an arm of government and also as the ruling party are ready to lead by example and make sure we put our hands together in order to rebuild Zimbabwe. The night is certainly dark but the darkest hour comes just before dawn.
All Zimbabweans, from any political party, we have a duty, and a role to play as we lay stone ontop of a stone (Ibwe pamusoro peibwe) reconstruct and strive to attract not only foreign but also local investors. We are aware of the many hurdles along the way but we will not be deterred in the march towards attaining Vision 2030.
There is so much at stake that we cannot be divided at this crucial juncture. We need to bring back lost pride, we need to create employment and we need the strike by doctors to end.
Hopefully, teachers, civil servants and other public servants will also bear with government as it seeks to rebuild the economy to ensure that in just more than a decade Zimbabwe will be a middle income country.
By Zimbo24news Team
08 January 2018
ZANU PF Member of Parliament for Gutu South who is also the Party's Chief whip has boldly declared that his Party Parliamentary caucas agreed to forego their Parliamentary vehicles in solodarity with the nation's long suffering government.
He said this decision came as a result of their recognition of the state of our fiscus which he said could not afford to accomodate such luxuries at this moment.
Hon. Togarepi said his Party's Parliamentarians decided to lead by example while putting national interests first.
Hereunder is his full statement as published on the President's Facebook wall...
Our health sector has been bleeding for the past two decades but now as we seek to rebuild and invest in the critical sector we find ourselves confronted by a new challenge, the challenge of striking doctors who are demanding better conditions of service. Of course their concerns are genuine and require lasting solutions.
However, our economic situation, just like the health sector has bled for over a decade and the solutions so required to put the nation on a recovery path again are by no means simple but being implemented nonetheless as Zimbabwe rediscovers its lost glory.
As Zanu PF parliamentarians we are alive to these genuine concerns raised by doctors but also aware of government's fiscal position and we implore the doctors to negotiate in good faith and with Zimbabwe and the sick people in our hospitals at heart.
To play our part, however, small or little, we are ready to forgo the luxury vehicles that come with our parliamentary positions as we are representatives of less privileged people whose only access to health is public hospitals.
For those MPs who are desperate for vehicles we propose that when it is time to buy they be given affordable vehicles that allow them access to their constituencies but certainly not luxury vehicles in a sea of poverty. Let's allow government to deal with urgent issues and vehicles will be bought at the appropriate time.
We as an arm of government and also as the ruling party are ready to lead by example and make sure we put our hands together in order to rebuild Zimbabwe. The night is certainly dark but the darkest hour comes just before dawn.
All Zimbabweans, from any political party, we have a duty, and a role to play as we lay stone ontop of a stone (Ibwe pamusoro peibwe) reconstruct and strive to attract not only foreign but also local investors. We are aware of the many hurdles along the way but we will not be deterred in the march towards attaining Vision 2030.
There is so much at stake that we cannot be divided at this crucial juncture. We need to bring back lost pride, we need to create employment and we need the strike by doctors to end.
Hopefully, teachers, civil servants and other public servants will also bear with government as it seeks to rebuild the economy to ensure that in just more than a decade Zimbabwe will be a middle income country.
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