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Citizens Coalition For Change (CCC) President Nelson Chamisa says Zimbabwe ‘economic chaos is a result of serious leadership crisis and citizens are exposed to extreme poverty and suffering.
Commenting on the recent mid term budget , CCC leader has been calling for a change in leadership citing that the current leadership lack vision and good governance hence the nation’s economic problems will not go anywhere as long the current leadership is in power.
“At a time where inflation has reached 257% in July and people in extreme poverty are 7.9 million (49%), the budget disbursements to social is extremely low, e.g., ministry health has been given 27% of the budget by June instead of a min of 50%,”
“When the consumer basket for a family of 5 has topped ZWL$140K, government raises salary of the lowest paid civil servants to $35K (excluding the US$175) and raise the tax free threshold to $50K, both of which are far below the consumer basket & poverty datum line,”
He even went on to elaborate the consequences of unrestrained indiscipline in government upon rampant galloping corruption.
“The condonation of ZWL$ 107 billion for 2020 & 2019 fiscal years is testimony to this.The government has created distortions in the foreign currency markets &now gold coins, the havens for corruption,” he said.
Chamisa says under his leadership the party will implement dollarisation which will immediately eliminate distortions, forward pricing and multiple pricing shand also restoration of the US$540 as a starting salary and reduce the tax burden on citizens and the business in general.
“Holistic tax reform. Reduce the tax burden on citizens and the business in general. As part of the tax reforms, we will remove the 2% tax and streamline taxes,”
He said the way forward is the the change in leadership to restore the country to greatness
“Only a leadership change will rescue our beautiful country and in no time turn and transform this Zimbabwe from ruins to greatness,”
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