Govt to splash $12m on MPs’ vehicles THE government is set to spend over $12,4 million on vehicles for legislators following disclosures that the Parliamentary Vehicle Scheme had received the green light from Treasury. This came out during a joint caucus meeting held yesterday by MPs from across the political divide and Parliament administration staff. Confirming the development that is set to raise a lot of dust, Gokwe-Kana MP Owen Ncube (Zanu PF) said MPs had been given a model of the scheme which allowed the 355 MPs to purchase vehicles up to a maximum of $35 000 from Croco Motors. Some MPs were sceptical that they would get the vehicles saying the government had no such money adding that it was just a way of quelling flaring tempers. The issue of vehicles has remained an area of concern with most legislators indicating that they were unable to properly carry out their mandate in their respective constituencies as they did not have cars. Efforts to get a comment from Chinamasa were fruitless yesterday. - Newsday
Posted on: Thu, 15 May 2014 10:28:24 +0000
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