Vice President Chiwenga accuses Biti of defending ‘criminals’ in court
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga who doubles as the Minister of Health on Tuesday accused former Finance Minister Tendai Biti of defending “criminals” in court.
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Vice President Constantino Chiwenga who doubles as the Minister of Health on Tuesday accused former Finance Minister Tendai Biti of defending “criminals” in court.
Kuwadzana East legislator Chalton Hwende on Wednesday asked in Parliament why Vice President Constantino Chiwenga who doubles as Minister of Health was not coming to the National Assembly like other cabinet ministers. “Since I was elected as a Member of Parliament in March, I have never seen him in this House,” Hwende said.
Presidential spokesperson George Charamba has claimed that the National Assembly “is out of order” for pushing his boss Emmerson Mnangagwa to appoint a second Vice President. Charamba called all Members of Parliament agitating for Mnangagwa to replace Kembo Mohadi who resigned last year over a sex scandal “ignorant”.
There were chaotic scenes in Parliament as newly elected Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) MPs were denied entry into the building for wearing yellow ties. They still managed to bulldoze inside.
The opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has celebrated grabbing 19 out of 28 National Assembly seats and 75 out of 122 council seats during the by-election on Saturday but is still worried the polls were rigged in some places.
Khupe had been initially suspended from the MDC-T on grounds of “bringing the party into disrepute” but she immediately announced that she was breaking away as Mwonzora had become a “center of constitutional transgressions.”
The decision by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) to withdraw the notice of by-election vacancies for six National Assembly constituencies that were held by People’s Democratic Party (PDP) members, including the party’s former president Tendai Biti are meant to weaken the newly launched opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), UK based law expert Alex Magaisa has argued.
MPs in Zimbabwe have protested against some cabinet ministers who are continuously not coming to the National Assembly to attend to pertinent questions that people need answers to.
Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda on Tuesday tried to stop MDC Alliance Vice President Lynette Karenyi from rasing the issue in the Netional Assembly about the “victimisation and subjection to torture” incarcerated Harare West legislator Joanah Mamombe (27).
Twelve legislators attended the National Assembly sitting yesterday, which only sat for less than 10 minutes and was adjourned by Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi to August 25.