Govt To Compensate War Collaborators - Muchinguri

The government is drafting a law that will legalise paying compensation packages to war collaborators. This was revealed by the Minister of Defence and War Veterans Affairs, Oppah Muchinguri during a ZANU PF rally held in Gweru last weekend. She said:

We are in the process of putting together a Bill that will legalise compensation of the war collaborators.

Cabinet has already approved the idea and asked us to come up with a Bill.

At the moment, we have put together the principles of the Bill and are now working on the other issues that should be in the Bill.

Once we are done drafting the Bill, we will take it to the Cabinet Committee on legislation, which will work on it and that can take about two weeks.

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The committee will then send it back to Cabinet for approval, then we take it to Parliament.

So, all in all, we must be having the Bill in a month’s time.

Meanwhile, the MDC has warned Muchinguri that the country is in an economic spiral which makes it difficult to make the huge payouts. MDC spokesperson, Daniel Molekele said:

We need to be careful in having such large expenditures. So, the issue is about how practical it is in these circumstances. That is something the minister needs to be careful of and give serious consideration.

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