CHIRUMANZU-ZIBAGWE legislator Auxilia Mnangagwa has threatened to flush out ‘bossy and lazy’ civil servants from her constituency and recommend their expulsion from the Civil Service Commission.
BY BLESSED MHLANGA
Addressing a constituency development meeting in Mvuma at the weekend, Auxilia, said she was particularly unhappy with the conduct of civil servants employed in the Register-General Tobaiwa Mudede’s Office.
“Some of them have become so bossy and they think they are now bigger than the people who pay their salaries. Many in this constituency have been denied birth certificates and identity cards by lazy civil servants who are paid monthly to perform those duties,” she said.
She warned that she would ensure that the ‘big headed’ civil servants were shown the exit.
“Those who want IDs and birth certificates go get yourselves organized, then call me so that we go together to those offices and I will see for myself those big-headed people in those offices and believe me as your MP I will use all available legal means to flush them out and take them to places were their heads can grow big in peace,” she warned.
Her remarks came after Chief Chirumanzu, born Gerald Mudzengi, said thousands of his subjects had failed to obtain crucial documents because of incompetence and corruption at the Registrar-General’s district offices in Mvuma.
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Some villagers appealed to their MP to lobby for mobile registration centres arguing that they could not afford the transport costs to and from Mvuma.
During the same meeting, Auxilia also accused former Vice-President Joice Mujuru of blocking her bid to contest the 2013 parliamentary elections in Chiweshe after she had already won Zanu PF primary elections.
“I was thrown out of Chiweshe by Mujuru and then came here and worked hard for my own political career and President Robert Mugabe being a fair leader noticed and appointed me into the politburo,” she said.
Auxillia challenged her constituency to judge in accordance with her performance and not because of her marital ties to Mnangagwa.
“I want to be seen and judged for my work and not because I am the wife of the Vice President. People need their concerns addressed and even if it means asking my husband the hard questions in Parliament for the benefit of the people I will do that,” she said.
