MDC-T legislator Priscilla Misihairabwi Mushonga yesterday
blasted excessive bootlicking of President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his wife,
First Lady Auxillia, by individuals and organisations whom she said were still
congratulating them for winning elections held three months ago.
Misihairabwi-Mushonga said this in the National Assembly
while contributing to a motion in reply to the Presidential speech.
She said her party, led by Thokozani Khupe, attended
Mnangagwa’s inauguration, but had noted critical hygiene issues which Zanu PF
now had to deal with. “Can we stop the too many congratulatory messages that we
are seeing on television and newspapers everyday.
They do not work because what we want now is to pull the
wheel so that the country goes forward,” Misihairabwi-Mushonga said.
“We are in this situation because of bootlicking, and if
you want to congratulate Mnangagwa, do that by delivering.
Zesa must deliver electricity, Zinwa [Zimbabwe National
Water Authority] must deliver water, and Zinara [Zimbabwe National Roads
Administration] deal with the roads.”
She then turned on ministers with a penchant for holding
Press conferences.
“I was excited that Cabinet has new faces, but I am
disappointed that our ministers are spending too much time in Press
conferences.
I am appealing to the Reserve Bank governor John Mangudya
and Finance minister Mthuli Ncube, to say it is enough,” she said.
Misihairabwi-Mushonga claimed that the First Lady was being
turned into a superstar by the media because of her charity work.
“She is a wonderful and humble person, but the Press wants
to turn her into something that she is not.
She must do her charity work in silence, and so please stop
putting her in the Press every day.
She is not a poster girl for Econet, and what the media
wants to turn her into is unacceptable,” she said.
The MP also suggested that taxation should also hit the
rich instead of punishing the poor.
Misihairabwi-Mushonga said it was wiser to tax people with
more than one vehicle, tax swimming pools, and make people that import goods to
pay for duty in foreign currency.
She also suggested that the best stabilisation programme
was to revert to the situation, where all civil servants, regardless of
position, earned $100. Daily News
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