Veep explains low teacher recruitment

GOVERNMENT resources are inadequate to deploy more teachers this year, Vice President Inonge Wina has said.

Ms Wina said that the country did not have enough resources and that was why Government had decided not to recruit more than 1, 200 teachers this year.

Government, she said, always wanted to recruit more teachers to better the education system but resources were not enough.

She told Parliament yesterday during the Vice President’s question time that Government would increase the number of teachers to be recruited next year when resources were available.

“The Ministry of Education is a priority to this Government, this country cannot develop without improving the education of the young generation.

“Government is committed to ensuring that the number of recruited teachers is increased from 1, 200 or so to more teachers in the coming year,” she said.

Ms Wina said the revenue base for the country had reduced because very few businesses were operational.

And ZANIS reports that Ms Wina says that the PF is distancing itself from the reported cadres displaying large sums of cash on social media.

She said this was being done with the intentions of painting a bad image on the hard working PF.

Ms Wina said that it may not be a shock if the investigations revealed that the people who are in the videos are not real PF cadres but people masquerading as PF cadres with the intentions of tarnishing the image of the ruling party.

She disclosed that the Police Service and the Drug Enforcement Commission are investigating the suspected cadres who are displaying huge volumes of money in videos on social media.

She was speaking yesterday in Parliament, when she responded to a question from Member of Parliament for Mapatizwa Constituency Clive Miyanda who asked to find out where the PF cadres are getting the huge sums of money which they are displaying in public when the country is experiencing an economic crisis.