Zimbabwe’s MPs are threatening to delay the approval of the national budget because they too want to be pampered like Mugabe and Tsvangirai! MPs are demanding new cars and back pay of salaries and allowances outstanding since 2008.
The Zimbabwe economy shrunk by a staggering 84% in the six years 2002 to 2008 a position from which it has yet to recover three years since the formation of this GNU. The economic melt down has left 80% plus of our people out of work and into abject poverty. Many of the same MPs were in the last parliament; what did they do to stop the economic melt down? Nothing! The economy should have registered a significant recovery since 2008 if only the country had restored the rule of law and stopped the madness of corruption and looting. Three years later and Zimbabwe is still a lawless country!
Most civil servants are paid a merge US$300 or less. What makes these MPs believe they deserve more than the US$ 500 they are getting? MPs got new cars three years ago; they really do not need these cars replaced.
It is very true that the executive, Mugabe, Tsvangirai and Mutambara are pampering themselves with multiple luxury cars and other perks. How can anyone justify spending a cool US$ 3 million on one foreign trip when hundreds of thousands of children across the nation can not be vaccinated because there is no money to buy the vaccines. Instead of the MPs putting their foot down to end this criminal waste of resources they are using it to justify their own demand to be pampered too!
“It is very unfortunate that people can perceive that we are trying to arm twist the government when the truth is that government is not looking at our welfare issues,” said Paddy Zhanda. It is very unfortunate that Zimbabwe is ruled by a sick and selfish executive and an equally sick and selfish legislature!
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It took most Zimbabweans 20 years to finally admit Mugabe was a ruthless dictator. Mugabe was a war hero and in our eyes, he was infallible and therefore could do no wrong. Even at the height of Gukurahundi years where over 20 000 innocent Zimbabweans were murdered in cold blood to establish the Zanu PF one-party dictatorship; we closed our eyes. It is clear we learnt nothing for that.
Zimbabweans gave Tsvangirai the mandate to govern the nation in 2008 – a mandate for which many lost property and limb and over 500 dead – but, sadly, it was wasted. MDC has achieved nothing of note; the economy is still in a mess and has failed to deliver even one political reform. Tsvangirai is a weak and indecisive leader and yet many Zimbabweans still refuse to see him for what he is.
After 30 years of Mugabe’s tyrannical and corrupt rule the last thing the nation need to have decades of Frederick Chiluba style indecision and blundering!
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