adminGono, Zhanda clash again
Obert Chifamba Senior Reporter
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Dr Gideon Gono and Goromonzi North legislator Cde Paddy Zhanda yesterday clashed during a parliamentary hearing into how agricultural equipment under the Farm Mechanisation Programme was distributed.
Cde Zhanda stormed out of the hearing called by the Portfolio Committee on Agriculture after Dr Gono refused to divulge some information on the programme.
An argument between the two followed, leading committee chairperson Mr Moses Jiri to call off the hearing after Cde Zhanda unceremoniously left. Relations between Dr Gono and Cde Zhanda soured after the Reserve Bank Governor last year alleged that the legislator sought bribes from him.
Dr Gono said the bribes were meant to cause the abandonment of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Budget, Finance and Investment Promotion’s investigations into the central bank’s activities.
Cde Zhanda denied the allegations, with the House of Assembly rejecting a proposal to set up a committee to investigate the alleged request for a bribe.
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