Editor - In Zimbabwe, we have a situation where government officials and ministers have several cars bought using the taxpayers money.
The normal rule with official cars is they should be driven by the person to whom it is allocated or when that person is a passenger.
Therefore, an official has no need for more than one car because they cannot ride in more than one car. Zimbabwean officials have multiple cars just for the sake of status, not because they need them.
At the same time, ordinary people are suffering from lack of simple infrastructure and services. People have to take each other to hospital in scotch carts and wheelbarrows. Yet the money that is used to buy status symbol cars for officials could be used to buy simple ambulances for every district.
As mentioned earlier, each official only needs one car. Any special purpose vehicles should be pool cars.
I do not buy the argument that you need big 4x4s because the roads in most of the constituencies are bad and cannot be accessed by ordinary cars. Fix the roads so that you can go there with ordinary cars. A car for an official is only used by that official, whereas a road is used by thousands of people.
Isn't it more efficient to spend money for the direct benefit of more people than for the benefit of one person?
The money saved from buying less and cheaper cars for officials can be chanelled towards essential services.
Jupiter Punungwe
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