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Recent revelations by the Parliamentary Portfolio Lloyd Gumbo Mr Speaker Sir Committee on Lands, Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development on the state of the Cold Storage Company and Agriculture and Rural Development Authority (Arda) farms that are wholly under Government leave a bitter taste in the mouth and indeed an indictment of those indigenous Zimbabweans […]
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Lloyd Gumbo Mr Speaker, Sir On a Wednesday a fortnight ago, our Air Zimbabwe flight was supposed to take-off from the Harare International Airport at 9:30am for the Victoria Falls International Airport in what was supposed to be a one hour flight meaning that we should have touched down at 10:30am. After checking in about […]
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Lloyd Gumbo Mr Speaker, Sir In all fairness, if they were to display the zeal they exhibited while debating the diplomatic passports issue on rural roads construction and maintenance, not many rural areas would still be having dusty roads.
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Lloyd Gumbo Mr Speaker, Sir Just the other day, I met a former Member of Parliament of the Seventh Parliament in town treating himself to a one litre soft drink and buns. He was seated in the Africa Unity Square.
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Lloyd Gumbo Mr Speaker, Sir It is important that ministers or boards take decisive action against officials in parastatals who misappropriate funds than be intimidated just because one has stayed in the institution for a long time.
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Lloyd Gumbo Mr Speaker Sir The fact that the serious effects of climate change coincided with the land redistribution exercise have resulted in land redistribution critics trying to shift blame for poor yields to the land reform programme, in the process casting aspersions that indigenous farmers have failed.
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Lloyd Gumbo Mr Speaker Sir Only a few companies were visible through their corporate social responsibility activities while the majority appeared non-existent yet they were on the ground mining diamonds.
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Lloyd Gumbo Mr Speaker, Sir All rational Zimbabweans are questioning the current infighting in the ruling party at the expense of economic development. It appears Zanu-PF has and will spend the majority of its five-year term fighting itself instead of fulfilling the electoral promises that saw it get the majority vote in 2013.
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Lloyd Gumbo Mr Speaker, Sir A few days ago I witnessed an accident at the intersection of Robert Mugabe Road and Sam Nujoma Street where drivers of two vehicles, one coming from the north and the other from the west did not give way to each other resulting in a collision
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Lloyd Gumbo Mr Speaker Sir It is expected that MPs are rational human beings when they carry out their parliamentary duties, as such they should instead use public hearings to unite people and focus on developmental issues.
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Lloyd Gumbo Mr Speaker Sir It does not help the country to have so many infrastructural projects that are exclusively carried out by foreign companies with no local component at all.
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Lloyd Gumbo Mr Speaker Sir Ever wondered why one cannot explain how Zimbabwe is rich in resources, but poor in economic performance? Ever wondered where money from the minerals that are mined here goes to? Well, Mr Speaker Sir, our policies have let us down over the years.
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Lloyd Gumbo Mr Speaker Sir Recently, I visited a cousin who is a member of the Air Force of Zimbabwe at Manyame Air Base and as they escorted me out together with his friends, we met a farmworker from a nearby farm, who was over the moon celebrating that he had received $140 in salary and […]
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Lloyd Gumbo Mr Speaker Sir Zimbabwe on Tuesday commemorated 28 years since the signing of the Unity Accord between two revolutionary political parties — Zanu and PF Zapu —under the guidance of their leaders, President Mugabe and the late Vice President, Dr Joshua Nkomo.
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Lloyd Gumbo Mr Speaker Sir One of the major threats to Zimbabwe’s quest for economic development is corruption. As such, mega deals that were signed with China will not bring the much-needed economic turnaround if corruption and rent seeking behaviour by those in charge of implementation of the deals is left to thrive. Mr Speaker Sir, […]