Posted by BULAWAYO – The World Bank is helping pay salaries for some workers in Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s office, a top aide has said but denied charges that the Premier had set up parallel structures to a unity government with President Robert Mugabe.
Minister of State in Tsvangirai’s office, Gorden Moyo said the staff being paid with money from the World Bank were doing work that was benefiting the entire government, adding that the salaries support should be seen as technical support from the Bretton Woods institution.
Moyo, who was responding to questions from reporters on Monday whether it was true that some staff under Tsvangirai’s office were being paid by the World Bank, said: “It is a scheme of government . . . we are getting (human) resources through a scheme of (provision of) technical assistants through the World Bank. These people are being paid through the World Bank.”
Writing in the state-controlled Sunday Mail newspaper, independent parliamentarian Jonathan Moyo accused Tsvangirai of setting up parallel government structures that he said were manned by staff paid by foreign governments and organisations.
But Minister Moyo said the offices set up under the Premier’s department were working to support the unity government and not to compete against it.
