HARARE- The Constitution Parliamentary Select Committee (COPAC), has been forced to launch an immediate audit of its outreach teams after the number of? commissioners swelled from the initial 530 to close to a thousand. Co- chairperson of the committee, Paul Mangwana told plenary at the training ?of outreach teams in Harare, that after the audit, the final list of outreach teams would be published in the media.
He said: If your name is not on the final list which will be published in newspapers, then please do not embarrass yourself by trying to sneak back? inside. We are aware that there are some people who are not supposed to be here who have joined us.
The swelling of numbers was attributed to reports that outreach team members would be receiving US$70 a day for the 65 days they will be on duty. Parliamentarians will be the biggest beneficiaries as they will be paid US$80 per day for the use of their vehicles.
Meanwhile members of parliament attending the outreach training in Harare were confronted by angry party activists who accused them of practising nepotism by recommending siblings and children to the constitution making process.
It is a very sad development that genuine party activists were left out of the process because MPs recommended their brothers, sisters, children and other relatives while leaving out genuine party activists who were campaign agents during presidential and parliamentary elections, an angry youth official said in an interview.
In a bizarre development, an official from Mashonaland East was reported to have recalled his five children based in South Africa to participate in the ?constitution making process as outreach team commissioners.
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