Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo
yesterday queried a decision by Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa to
retrospectively suspend duty for fuel imported under controversial
circumstances, exposing widening divisions in the Zanu PF government.
Moyo took to Twitter to query why Chinamasa on Friday
waived duty for fuel already imported for the Dema emergency power project,
Kariba South extension project and African Chrome Field (ACF) using statutory
instrument 126 of 2017.
“This SI is not only suspending duty after the fact but
also after the same duty was initially waived unlawfully for Africa Chrome
Fields,” the minister tweeted.
Last month, the Zimbabwe Independent revealed that two
private companies imported 312 million litres of diesel duty-free, prejudicing
the broke Treasury of revenue in unpaid taxes.
The government granted national project status to the Dema
project as the country grappled with a perennial energy crisis that resulted in
intermittent power cuts.
ACF was also exempted from paying taxes for its mining
project, openly violating the law.
However, Chinamasa had insisted that the importation of the
fuel was above board.
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