Mines and Energy Parliamentary Committee chairman Edward Chindori-Chininga yesterday castigated Justice and Legal Affairs minister Patrick Chinamasa for failing to respond to the committee’s report on Shabanie Mashava Mines (SMM).
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The Zanu PF MP also castigated Home Affairs co-ministers Kembo Mohadi and Theresa Makone for not responding to the report on SMM, saying it touched on the Prevention of Corruption Act and the two were supposed to have an input.
Chindori-Chininga was winding up the motion on the first report of the Mines and Energy Committee on the state of affairs at SMM.
“I would like to express the committee’s disappointment on the fact that the Minister of Justice who was assigned the administration of the Reconstruction of State-Indebted and Insolvent Companies Act by President Mugabe, under whose purview the two mines were placed under reconstruction, made no attempt to respond to the issues or recommendations that were raised in the report,” said Chindori-Chininga.
“The committee is further disappointed that the Minister of Mines and Mining Development (Obert Mpofu), who administers the Mines and Minerals Act, and the co-ministers of Home Affairs, who administer the Prevention of Corruption Act, made no attempt to respond to the issues or recommendations that were raised in the report,” he said.
The committee said it was baffled by lack of interest by MPs and members of the Executive in debating the report where lives of 4 000 workers and 60 000 people in Zvishavane and Mashava hung in the balance.
“The committee gave the responsible members of the Executive more than one year to respond to the report, but up to now no feedback has been given,” Chindori-Chininga said.
