By Paul Nyathi|New Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube has revealed that his Ministry has suspended the purchase of new vehicles for Members of Parliament and Ministers to allow resources to be directed towards the fight against cholera

Ncube made the revelation in a press conference held in Harare on Wednesday.

Ncube said this calling upon Zimbabweans to embrace crowd funding towards the cholera outbreak.

“With the 15.7 million that the government has pledged towards the out break of cholera,we suspended things like purchase of vehicles for Ministers and Members of Parliament to make sure that we deal with this out break immediately.

Parliamentarians are geared to receive from government high profile vehicles soon. The cost of the vehicles has been worked out to be over $20 million.

The government committee on cholera chairperson July Moyo early this week indicated that government needed $57 million to bring a permanent end to the cholera epidemic.

Ncube invited citizens to be part of the process to eradicate cholera by donating into the crowd funds.

“Of cause there is still a gap,its a long term gap in the sense that we still need further investments within the sector so that there will be further resources from the public.

“Crowd funding is not new,l just brought it to Zimbabwe remember after September 11 this was done of cause l am not trying to compare our selves with other governments but politicians in the United States use crowd funding to raise money from as little as a dollar to finance whatever they are doing.

“This is normal in developed countries and this is what we are trying to do in Zimbabwe so that we match what the corporates are doing so this will be used going forward and its voluntary whereby no-one is being forced to do so,”said Ncube.