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$2.5 mn set for Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s 93rd birthday bash
- Updated: February 8, 2017
Robert Mugabe
Harare: The statute jubilee of Zimbabwe is reportedly looking to spend some $2.5 million on President Robert Mugabe’s 93rd birthday jubilee on Feb 21, a media news pronounced on Wednesday.
“Each of a 10 provinces is approaching to lift $2.5 million towards.
“They design to lift it by provincial structures, individuals, private companies, parastatals and internal authorities,” Zanu PF jubilee officials said.
However, antithesis parties have pounded Mugabe for wasting income on impracticable spree while “93 per cent of Zimbabweans are servile in misery caused by his insufficiency and misrule”, NewZimbabwe.com reported.
Opposition parties pronounced they are not astounded about a outrageous bill since Mugabe always “had a gusto for open-handedness and wastefulness”.
Movement for Democratic Change-Tsvangirai (MDC-T) inhabitant orator Obert Gutu pronounced Mugabe and a Zanu-Patriotic Front (PF) regime “have a eerie ardour for saying a infancy of Zimbabweans live in contemptible misery and penury”.
“Just suppose what a sum of $2.5 million can do in shopping wanting drugs and other medicines for a open hospitals.
“That volume of income should be diverted to a Department of Social Welfare where it can be used to buy food and other essentials that are badly indispensable by a bad and marginalised people in a country.
“Zimbabwe needs improved care than what we are saying from these people,” Gutu added.
MDC-T jubilee orator Kurauone Chihwayi said: “A normal personality can't be so forward and impracticable to a border of raiding state enterprises to applaud his possess birthday while millions are starving”.
“Our associate adults should criticism Mugabe birthday celebrations in criticism of a synthetic predicament and extreme looting of state resources by a Zanu PF administration.”