Mnangagwa warns lazy Mines officials
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has warned government officials who are not doing their work professionally to up their sleeves as lazy work was an act of sabotage to economic revival.
Rudairo Mapuranga
Speaking at the groundbreaking ceremony for phase one of the Dinson Iron and Steel project in Mhanhize between Chivhu and Mvuma, President Mnangagwa said the country was being sabotaged by unpatriotic and lazy government officials who were not putting their hearts into their work.
The President warned that those officials will face an axe if they are found on the wrong side.
“We have officials who sit in air-conditioned offices, who take long to approve investors’ documents. They just hang their jackets in offices and sometimes read documents halfway and put them aside then the next day they come up with another excuse, and this will continue until the project is buried. We don’t want such kind of officials in this country,” President Mnangagwa said.
This has come after reports indicated that the Mashonaland West Province Mines office has not been timely issuing mining titles despite being capacitated with more vehicles and staff leading to miners opting to operate illegally.
The Mashonaland Central Province Mines office was also in news recently for closing its offices willy-nilly for meetings.