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Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>EXILED former Cabinet Minister Walter Mzembi has described low wages the government is paying civil servants as clear evidence of how evil the current regime is.<\/p>\n

Mzembi is living in South Africa, having fled President Emmerson Mnangagwa\u2019s allies in the military at the height of Zimbabwe\u2019s 2017 military-led coup.<\/p>\n

Sharing his thoughts on the upcoming August general elections, Mzembi claimed Mnangagwa was at his weakest and urged Zimbabweans to vote him out.<\/p>\n

Mzembi fingered Mnangagwa\u2019s propensity to award himself and his cronies large sums in loans, failure to address basic challenges being faced by citizens, especially women and poor salaries for his workers as evidence of failure.<\/p>\n

\u201cZimbabweans please, no president develops a country with his personal money! What the Electorate should vote for are superior ideas and logic between competitors; for example, anyone who makes our women carry migomo yemvura in cities is a no-no!\u201d said Mzembi on Twitter.<\/p>\n

\u201cA President is availed a budget from public funds and that budget avails what is available for development and it\u2019s not from a President\u2019s pocket. In a system that works Parliament approves or disapproves the budget, not the President or Executive.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the Executive grants loans to itself in United States dollars up to US$500,000 per individual whilst paying workers meaningless local RTGS equivalent to a dozen loaves of bread hapana hutsinye hunopfuura izvozvo. This is abuse of office!<\/p>\n

\u201cAny President who dishes out public funds like this is at his weakest!\u201d<\/p>\n

Mnangagwa will likely face off 2018 main challenger Nelson Chamisa who now heads the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC).<\/p>\n

A waning economy is fast denting prospects of him performing better than he did at the last contested polls. Poor wages, which have been further eroded by runaway inflation and questionable economic policies by his Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube have worsened the case.<\/p>\n

Mzembi\u2019s close ally, Saviour Kasukuwere, who was part of their G40 faction within Zanu PF before the November 2017 coup has announced his eagerness to contest him.<\/p>\n

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