NEW: Advocate Mudenda rallies parliamentarians, private sector for national transformation

The Sunday Mail

Conrad Mupesa

Mashonaland West Bureau

SPEAKER of the National Assembly Advocate Jacob Mudenda has challenged parliamentarians and the private sector to rally behind the Second Republic’s national development and transformative agenda.

Advocate Mudenda was addressing members of the Portfolio Committee on Transport and Infrastructural Development, and heads of various parastatals on Saturday morning in Kadoma during a two-day capacity building and validation workshop which ends tomorrow.

He said Zimbabwe had taken a trajectory towards infrastructure development, which dovetails with regional and global programmes, including Africa’s Agenda 2063 development blueprint to achieve inclusive and sustainable socio-economic development over a 50-year period.

Zimbabwe is on a drive for robust infrastructural development to transform its road network, border posts, dry-ports and airports.

Adv Mudenda challenged the committee to play its role during budget committees, to ensure that funds allocated for infrastructure development were able to meet Government’s development agenda.

He called on private players to engage in Private-Public-Partnerships (PPP) or Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT), as part of building the country they are operating in.

Some of the parastatals represented at the workshop are Air Zimbabwe, Central Mechanical Equipment Department, Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe and the National Railways of Zimbabwe.