Zimbabwe: Select Committee Must Have Autonomy

23 July 2009
Zimbabwe Independent (Harare)
column By Constantine Chimakure

THE decision by the 25-member parliamentary select committee on the constitution-making process to demand autonomy over the running and managing of the process should be commended and the principals to the global political agreement (GPA) must grant the request as a matter of urgency.

Co-chairperson of the committee, Paul Mangwana, this week said they had written to President Robert Mugabe, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and his deputy Arthur Mutambara asking for autonomy after "revelations" that its secretariat -- the administration of parliament -- had received money from an obscure non-governmental organisation, Non State Actors Forum, and paid allowances to 500 of the 4 000 delegates who attended last week's first stakeholders conference.

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