Nelson needs his head read
According to Nelson Chamisa the Unity Government’s Information, Communication, Technology Minister, he needs US$2 million to set up a national web site that will promote Zimbabwe in order to attract investment. He wants to do this within the first 100 days. Doing this would be akin to one of those electronic Nigerian scams. I mean, c’mon Nelson what are you going to say?
Come invest in Zimbabwe where we have the rule of law!
Come and invest in Zimbabwe where we guarantee land and property rights!
Come and invest in Zimbabwe where we will make sure you have uninterrupted electricity supply!
Come and invest in Zimbabwe where our telecommunications network guarantees you getting through after the 55th try!
Nelson Chamisa’s priorities are woefully out of sync with what the people need and want. How about taking the US$2 million and putting it toward the overhaul of our water and sanitation system? Or fixing traffic lights so that people aren’t continually killed and maimed? A rubbish truck or two wouldn’t go amiss either. The list is pretty much endless but at this point and time, a national web site is certainly rock bottom.
It’s about time that the GNU focused on one bread and butter issue and delivered on that one issue so that we can visibly see progress being made on important enhancements to our lives.
Of course a national web site will be necessary but only when Nelson and Co actually have some successes with which to entice international investment.
Not only is the international community looking for signs of progress but Zimbabweans are too.
Tuesday, June 2nd 2009 at 2:41 am
In the process of correcting the economy, different people have been assigned to different tasks. Chamisa has information. He takes the lead in that department. He needs to look at our needs from that perspective and prescribe what he thinks are the key requirements/drivers for the much needed change. Leave someone else to worry about the brooms and cleaning – it’s not Chamisa’s job.
It is that very behaviour of having a single politician/office/person taking on too many hats that contributed to our demise and has resulted in junk like Gono building little fiefdoms of power and becoming so powerful. Gono became a conduit of curruption that has probably resulted in the loss of billions of dollars to shady loans and transactions which benefited on a few.. who have to this day also become a pain in every patriotic Zimbabweans neck.
Ultimately, it is the actions of each individual office that should amass into one major effort to correct the country. Tsvangirai’s job is to coordinate and help prioritise the decisions made by each separate unit (or ministry). So while we as ordinary citizens may perhaps be aware of things bothering us.. we must be aware that there are things called separation of powers, separation of responsibilities, specialization, duplication of effort, parallel processing, and so on. Give the brother a chance.
YES… 2 million on a website right now is a bit too much considering we don’t money. But man, your article here is reflective of the attitudes and perspectives of the Old Zimbabwe.
Tuesday, June 2nd 2009 at 2:44 am
The most important thing is to do a cost benefit analysis and evaluate other alternative uses for the funds, then make a decision based on that. If the website has the best result.. then so be it. We do a website! Let’s not just be negative for the sake of it!
Tuesday, June 2nd 2009 at 1:56 pm
Wrong priorities 4 Nelson , YES. 1stly Zim network equipmnt is nxt 2 0 needs 2 b upgrdd be4 hostng of e website.