Through the People Charter, a petition was signed and submitted to the Minister of Finance Tendai Biti, Higher Minister of Health and Child Welfare, Henry Madzorera, The Minister of Education, David Coltart, Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education Dr. Stan Mudenge, and Speaker of the House of Assembly, Lovemore Moyo.
The petitioners said that they were disappointed by the government’s unfortunate demonstration of opulence amidst poverty via the recent purchase of luxury vehicles for cabinet ministers and their deputies.
The ministers including their deputies and permanent secretaries got Range Rover vehicles at a time when thousands in the country are wallowing in poverty.
“We hereby petition the government to return the luxury vehicles and acquire a reimbursement of the US$20 million resources and to reallocate the resources that had been used to purchase these vehicles to the Ministries of Health, Education, and Higher and Tertiary Education in order to purchase medicine and books for our hospitals, schools, colleges and universities.
“While Zimbabweans are struggling to set a meal on the table, the government has been nothing but extravagant with ministers,” the petition reads.
In a statement the petitioners said that they want an urgent response from the government.
“We are now waiting for an urgent response from government and we do hope that the government will respect the wishes of the people of Zimbabwe as highlighted in the petition.”
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