‘Wadyajena committee has no mandate to summon Moyo’

CLERK of Parliament, Kennedy Chokuda yesterday said the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Youth, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment had no mandate to summon Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo for a hearing, as it had no oversight role over his ministry.

Last week, committee chairperson and Gokwe-Nembudziya MP, Justice Mayor Wadyajena, said his committee had resolved to probe allegations that Moyo, his deputy, Godfrey Gandawa, and other ministry officials, allegedly abused over $400 000 from the Zimbabwe Manpower Development Fund (Zimdef).

“Each committee has a specific mandate and plays an oversight role on specific ministries … so that is a clear issue,” Chokuda said.

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