No money for polls: Mugabe

President Robert Mugabe says Zimbabwe is not ready and does not have money to hold by-elections in all the constituencies left vacant as a result of MPs’ deaths and/or dismissal from their political parties.

The country has 38 unrepresented constituencies and each seat requires a staggering $1 million, which Mugabe said the government did not have.

He blamed Treasury’s empty coffers on sanctions imposed on him and the Zanu PF inner circle by the West.

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