{"id":47339,"date":"2021-09-29T15:16:24","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T13:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=47339"},"modified":"2021-09-29T14:58:41","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T12:58:41","slug":"finance-ministry-dismisses-govt-spends-us200k-on-ministers-hotel-bills-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/finance-ministry-dismisses-govt-spends-us200k-on-ministers-hotel-bills-reports","title":{"rendered":"Finance Ministry Dismisses \u201cGovt Spends US$200K On Minister\u2019s Hotel Bills\u201d Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Ministry of Finance and Economic Development has dismissed as false and misleading claims that minister Mthuli Ncube stayed at Meikles Hotel for over two years resulting in the Government paying over US$200 000 in hotel bills.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued on Tuesday, the Finance Ministry\u2019s chief director for Communications and Advocacy, Mr Clive Mphambela, Zimbabwe Independent\u2019s last Friday article titled, \u201cGovt lavishes Ncube with a US$200 000 hotel stay,\u201d contained untrue statements. He said:<\/p>\n<p>We write to inform you that not only is your report simply not factual, but it has misled the public through your unverified report of non-existent wasteful expenditure on account of Government and the Honourable Minister\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>A simple check by your newspaper with the Meikles Hotel will confirm that at no time did the Honourable Minister of Finance and Economic Development spend two years at the said hotel.<\/p>\n<p>Further, no such payment has either been paid by Government nor is payable by Government as alleged by you.<\/p>\n<p>We write to request that you, in your next edition, retract and apologise for this highly misleading report and that your retraction and apology receive the same prominence that you accorded to the report.<\/p>\n<p>We trust that as a responsible and widely published newspaper, you will appreciate the urgency and importance of you actioning our request without the need for any further action on our part to protect the public as well as the reputation and interests of the Government of Zimbabwe and the Minister of Finance and Economic Development.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mphambela demanded that the Zimbabwe Independent respond to the request for retraction by end of the day Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>More: The Herald<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. The Ministry of Finance and Economic Development has dismissed as false and misleading claims that minister Mthuli Ncube stayed at Meikles Hotel for over two years resulting in the Government paying over US$200 000 in hotel bills. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the Finance Ministry\u2019s chief director for Communications and Advocacy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":47338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35,12,15],"tags":[1493,2189,807,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-47339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-homepage-english","9":"category-policy","10":"category-twitter","11":"tag-africa-press","12":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","13":"tag-mthuli-ncube","14":"tag-zimbabwe"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Finance Ministry Dismisses \u201cGovt Spends US$200K On Minister\u2019s Hotel Bills\u201d Reports - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Ministry of Finance and Economic Development has dismissed as false and misleading claims that minister Mthuli Ncube ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/finance-ministry-dismisses-govt-spends-us200k-on-ministers-hotel-bills-reports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Finance Ministry Dismisses \u201cGovt Spends US$200K On Minister\u2019s Hotel Bills\u201d Reports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Ministry of Finance and Economic Development has dismissed as false and misleading claims that minister Mthuli Ncube ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/finance-ministry-dismisses-govt-spends-us200k-on-ministers-hotel-bills-reports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-09-29T13:16:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-09-29T12:58:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/09\/img-615462e2cc397.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/finance-ministry-dismisses-govt-spends-us200k-on-ministers-hotel-bills-reports\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/finance-ministry-dismisses-govt-spends-us200k-on-ministers-hotel-bills-reports\",\"name\":\"Finance Ministry Dismisses \u201cGovt Spends US$200K On Minister\u2019s Hotel Bills\u201d Reports - 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