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A Senator responsible for the disabled, yesterday rapped some non-governmental organisations for setting up institutions to get funding from donors under the guise of wanting to assist them.Senator Mashavakure Nyamayabo said Government should intervene and look into the financial books of those NGOs set up to work with disabled persons to determine whether there had been no abuse of donor funds.
He said this in Senate while contributing to a motion debating the speech delivered by President Mugabe when he officially opened the Eighth Parliament last month.
“Many organisations are registered in our names yet nobody even in the management is disabled,” said Sen Nyamayabo. “Government should monitor these organisations including how they spend their money.”
He said the Auditor General should be empowered to look into their books of accounts so that they are made to account for the donor money, for them to stop abusing disabled persons for self-enrichment.
“The Auditor General should look into their books, investigate whatever is happening in the institution registered by the Government of Zimbabwe either as a Trust or as an NGO.”
In the past, many NGOs have come under fire for deviating from their core business as they have in many instances dabbled in opposition politics.
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