BUHERA Central MP Ronald Muderedzwa (Zanu PF) has called on his fellow legislators to come up with a paternity levy policy concieved along the same lines as the Aids Levy to cater for street kids and vagrants roaming most cities across the country.
by LUYANDUHOBO MAKWATI
According to the Parliamentary Hansard, Muderedzwa also called for the urgent repeal of the Vagrancy Act, saying it was the duty of the government to take care of the poor and safeguarding their interests by enacting protective legislation.
“Concerned by the government’s inertia in addressing such abnormalities in society and conscious that the government has a constitutional duty to look after the poor and the weak, I call upon the Executive to repeal such laws as the Vagrancy Act that are alien to safeguarding the interests of the poor and the weak. In such a way that they introduce laws that are amendable to upholding human rights and dignity of the underprivileged,” he said.
“It is not proper for us as enlightened members of society to see this type of problem continuing unabated. I am saying, let us come up with a new law, a paternal law, and a law that is supposed to cater for these people.
“This law should cause the nation to come up with a fund; a fund that is similar to the Aids Levy, a fund that each and every Zimbabwean, who is working, should subscribe to, so that we have a fund that does not run dry. This fund will then be used to cater for these people.”
