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"Presidential Advisory Council Should Be Dissolved", Analyst

4 years agoThu, 25 Jul 2019 05:50:55 GMT
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"Presidential Advisory Council Should Be Dissolved", Analyst

A political and social commentator, Petinah Gappah opined that there is a conflict of interest with most of the members of the Presidential Advisory Council (PAC), which necessitates the disbanding of the body. Writing on social media, Gappah said:

I expressed some misgivings about having economic players on the Presidential Advisory Council.

When Mthuli Ncube first floated the idea last year, it was to be an international advisory council of “eminent gris”, a board of retired grey-headed man and women with no attachment to Zimbabwe beyond the expertise and vast experience they could provide as Zimbabwe made its transition from an inward-looking economy with an isolationist foreign policy.

It was replaced by UNDP’s proposal of a 15 or less member board. When the first 15 members were appointed, they accepted on the understanding of who else was to be on the board.

… The PAC has done some good work, and that is without a doubt. I am especially grateful for the support of ZIDA. But any further good work will be cast in the shade of focus moves to their many conflicts of interest.

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If I were on the PAC right now, I would suggest its immediate disbandment so that we start afresh. I believe this disbanding should come from the PAC itself.

… They are a classic case of conflict of interest. The new Zimbabwe deserves better.

Commenting on Gappah’s observations, former Higher and Tertiary Education Minister, Jonathan Moyo said:

Petina Gappah’s take on PAC is spot on. Conflicts of interest in PAC are staggering. Elsewhere, like in the US, such advisors are leading and successful economic players in their line of business. In Zimbabwe, they are broke economic players running broken companies, seeking bailouts!

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