By Langton Ncube| The President Emmerson Mnangagwa administration has relegated the Special Economic Zones (SEZ) project rendering the board chairperson Gideon Gono jobless.

The SEZ board was appointed last year with a view to helping attract the much needed but elusive foreign direct investment to the country.

Gono told parliament Tuesday that they had no offices.

“As it stands we are like a flying object, we do not know which ministry we are now under whether it is Finance, Industry and Commerce or Macro-economic planning and until that is determined we will remain where we are,” he told Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Foreign Affairs.

“We have no chief executive officer or a secretariat, we did the interviews as required by the law and submitted our recommended candidates to the government for appointment but nothing has been done and because other members of the board are fully employed elsewhere, they look up to the chairman to do most of the secretarial work,” he said.

“We have no offices, sometimes we meet in the boardroom of what used to be the Ministry of Macroeconomic Planning, but when we are meeting with investors or when they want to submit their proposals we use my personal office,” he said.

Gono said they had written to various ministries asking whether they belonged to them or not.

“The Act does not help much in determining our parent ministry it only mentions that we report to the ministry but does not mention the ministry or specify it,” he said.