A SENIOR Government official has told
businessman-cum-cleric Mr Shingi Munyeza to stop hiding behind the pulpit while
pushing a nefarious political agenda.
Mr Munyeza, who is one of President Mnangagwa’s advisors in
the Presidential Advisory Committee (PAC), has — instead of whistling in the
ears of the President as is expected from him — been raving and ranting on
social media platforms against the Government.
Unamused by the pastor’s political theatrics, Secretary for
Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Mr Nick Mangwana said Mr
Munyeza should use his PAC position instead of playing to the gallery to score
political goals under clerical robes and the Bible.
“(Mr) Munyeza should not hide behind the Bible when giving
political rants. We want to respect men of God, but we are not going to treat
religious charlatans, who are not courageous enough to come into the political
arena like the rest but hide behind the Holy Book and start issuing political
edicts disguised as sermons, with kid gloves,” he said.
Mr Mangwana said instead of spewing venomous sermons that
polarise the nation, men of God like Mr Munyeza should use their positions to
unite the nation and tend to the people’s spiritual needs.
“Religious leaders should be unifying and rallying people’s
hope not to preach hate and prejudiced diatribes. What Mr Munyeza is spewing is
eccentric and divisive heresy.
“One wonders why one would be so packed with bitterness
that they can’t find time to speak to the President who they are supposed to be
advising but choose to grandstand and issue unsolicited and accursed lambaste
like an evil oracle,” said Mr Mangwana.
Mr Munyeza, who was absent from Wednesday’s PAC meeting
that was held at the State House, has been casting aspersions at the Government
that he pledged to serve.
And Mr Mangwana reminded the pastor that the Bible he was
using as a shield to berate the Government was averse to religious leaders who
abused the word of God.
“The Bible has verses for Mr Munyeza’s kind, ‘Woe to the
foolish prophets who follow their own spirits when they have seen nothing.
Their visions are false and their divinations a lie. Even though the Lord has
not sent them, they say, The Lord declares and expect him to fulfil their
words’,” said Mr Mangwana.
Contacted on Wednesday, Mr Munyeza refused to comment on
the attacks he has made against Government. On his absence from the PAC
meeting, he said: “We all don’t attend PAC meetings every time.” Herald
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