Parliamentary Portfolio Committee Chairman on Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement Justice Wadyajena has come out guns blazing castigating the Minister of Finance and Economic Development Prof Mthuli Ncube for appointing Acie Lumumba as the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development Communications Task force chair without following the procedure.
Responding to the Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services’s announcement that Professor Ncube’s appointment of the Communications Taskforce had not followed due process as dictated in the procurement policy.
“Please stop taking us for a ride, we ain’t fools. Minister, Prof @MthuliNcube appointed @acielumumba without following correct procedure & must be liable. It’s not Acie’s fault that he was appointed, but the appointing authority’s. @MthuliNcube, have you been corrupted by fuel or cash?” He said.
Lumumba’s appointment drew relentless brickbats from many quarters of the society with questions being raised over his credentials to run the high-profile portfolio in the ministry.
