OPPOSITION Alliance for People’s Agenda (APA) presidential candidate
Nkosana Moyo has pledged a governance paradigm shift, where prospective
Cabinet ministers would have to apply and be considered on merit unlike
the Zanu PF-led government system, where the leader picks “his cronies
for top government posts”.
Addressing guests at his party manifesto launch in Harare on
Wednesday, Moyo said: “Zimbabwe has a lot of skilled people who can take
up ministerial posts, but the problem is that it is impossible to
identify them and know where all of them are.
“I will not appoint ministers, but our requirements will be that one
needs to apply in order to get a ministerial post so that ministers are
chosen on merit and not through appointments because what stops a
President from appointing his relatives.”
In a potshot directed at President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s
administration, Moyo said Zimbabwe now required economists to fix a
“purely economic problem” and “not soldiers”.
“We fought a war and we needed soldiers to fight in that war … and
now we are fighting to build an economy, but what is happening is that
we are going back to get those soldiers.
“If the power goes out in this building, you get an electrician.
Have you ever thought of how Zimbabweans managed to get a good education
system? It was because former President Robert Mugabe was a teacher and
he understood education,” Moyo said.
“What puzzles me now is that we want to put lawyers to fix the
economy. Do we want to make new laws? What we want is someone to fix the
economy, but it is not for me to decide. It is for Zimbabweans to
decide.”
Moyo lampooned the Zanu PF government for failing to be transparent
on the deals they signed with investors, saying that government must be
accountable to the people.
“People think that when they get to Parliament, their job is to support
the President. No, their job is to actually put the Executive to
account, but we have corrupted the system,” he said.
Moyo added that his government would end the long era of wasteful recurrent spending and return the country to fiscal sanity. Newsday
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