Former Finance Minister Tendai Biti has dismissed President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) describing it as “a self serving ego trip that missed an opportunity to lead”.
Addressing the nation yesterday during the official opening of the Fifth Session of the Ninth Parliament of Zimbabwe, Mnangagwa hailed his government for instituting robust measures meant to stabilise the struggling economy.
“The period since my last address to this Parliament has seen unprecedented socio-economic growth as well as the accelerated implementation of the National Development Strategy 1,” Mnangagwa said.
“Tight monetary and fiscal policy measures to stabilise the economy and curtail speculative borrowing and other rent-seeking behaviour, are bearing fruit.
“Gold coins valued at ZW$9,5 billion were sold as of September 30, 2022. Smaller denominations of the gold coins have been unveiled by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe to broaden access and inclusivity.
“Month-on-month inflation for September significantly declined to 3.5 percent from 12.4 percent in August, 2022. Every Zimbabwean must jealously guard this stability.”
But Biti slammed the whole statement by Mnangagwa saying it did not address the real challenges facing the country.
“The center of gravity of the Zim crises is a crisis of leadership, a disarticulated national vision, disunity, intolerance, polarization, exclusion, state capture and absence of social contract. The nation state is no nation,” the main opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Vice President said.
“Any State of Nation address must deal with Nation building national cohesion and national consensus. Calibrating a national fabric, a national identity beyond exhausted narratives is the national imperator.
“Yesterday’s SONA did not and could not address these issues. It was largely a self serving ego trip that missed an opportunity to lead,” Biti added.
That’s nonsense
True 👌 to Biti
Mr opposition do what you are good at to oppose oppose everything Good or bad
Jonzy Jimaro Zimbabwes own Raila “Azimio” Odinga
Jonzy Jimaro it’s normal as an opposition. Criticism brings development in a democracy
Jonzy Jimaro marara emari mdoo budget
Nothing comes out of an opposition, its an opposition dnt expect anything positive.
Alfa B Banhu tell me one chakagonekwa na ed chakafarirwa nemunhu wese
Wellington Kwaramba zvakawanda zvoda uri pa ground ndichikuratidza one by one, tell me when u are free ndofamba newe ndokuonesawo
Alfa B Banhu Ask Biti’s opinion first,b4 you start barking on social Media,
Alfa B Banhu 🤣🤣🤣masuwenji nemabole mutown,97%skilled workers are out in zimbabwe why ??shame on you,,unofarira tsvina your generation
Alfa B Banhu pawanhu wekugoromodzi ndiwe one anofarira masuwage
Wellington Kwaramba that’s CCC Council Jobs
Alfa B Banhu 🤣🤣🤣hauna nyaya wasting our time nhudzi kunhudzi,,CCC its new party imi 42years chabuda dololo
Wellington Kwaramba makore haana basa CCC ndiyo Yaiva MDC 23 years running council Chii chakabuda
Alfa B Banhu shame on you brother,we say when one idiotic join5 idiotic he/she is the 6th idiots
Wellington Kwaramba hahahahah hahahahaha hauna nyaya chamhamha
Zviri normal se opposition party
Tendai Biti mhata yaambuya amai vanozvara mai vako plus mukoso waamai vako plus musatanyoko wako … you costed us an opportunity to rule 🇿🇼 during Tsangirayi era…. you engineered the split of original MDC because of your power hungry…. you left and form your own political party because of power hungry you are the one behind Opposition FAILURE in 🇿🇼 nywenywenywenywe nxaaa futsex
Biti my guy
biti never found good anything good done by the zanu.pf govt,only the continued incarceration of mr job sikhala is good news to him
Ane chii chasmbotaurawo mnangagwa chinobatika sa president wewanhu
Since when has the old rascal Ediot Mnangagwa said anything with sense in his speeches?
Biti be logical iwe ita yako SONA
Mxxxxxxxxxxxm isela leZanu Pf
ED must go
🤣🤣🤣vakamatorepiko madegree ekusvora
We dnt expect any endorsement of anything from confused regime change agents who are busy destabilizing their country on behalf of imperialist America and Britain, they always oppose anything be it good inorder to please their masters. We should just ignore them and concentrate on our trajectory to rebuild our country cz noone but ourselves can do that for us . These people oppose everything the government is doing and go on to build a busstop shade, useless idiots
You’re acting your identity of being an opposition member.
Saka
He is the best in january this year he told us the rate will reach 1000 by year end is that a lie lets learn to appreciate intelligent zimbos irrespective of our various political camps
Zanu pf inofarira kuzvifonera.The real issues affecting day to day lives are overlooked.
Mbiti angatii zvake hapana paakambopembedzawo