Why we need a small lean government

Right now in Zimbabwe we have a situation were government officials and ministers have several cars bought by the taxpayer. The normal rule with official cars is they should be driven by the person to whom it is allocated or when that person is a passenger.

Therefore an official has no need for more than one car because they cannot ride in more than one car. Zimbabwean officials have multiple cars just for the sake of status, not because they need them.

A bloated, extravagant and expensive top
hierarchy of government is a waste of money.

At the same time ordinary people are suffering from lack of simple infrastructure and services. People have to take each other to hospital in scotch carts and wheelbarrows. Yet the money that is used to buy extra status symbol cars for officials could be used to buy simple ambulances and enough for every district.

A small efficient top hierarchy will free up money
to provide services to the people.

As mentioned earlier each official only NEEDS one car. Any special purpose vehicles should be pool cars.

I do not buy the argument that you need big 4x4s because the roads in most of the constituencies are bad and cannot be accessed with ordinary cars. Fix the roads so that you can go there with ordinary cars. A car for an official is only used by that official, whereas a road is used by thousands of people.

There is something called efficiency. Isn't it more efficient to spend money for the direct benefit of more people than for the benefit of one person.

The money saved from buying less and cheaper cars for officials can be used to provide sorely needed services. It can also be used to provide better salaries for underpaid civil servants.