Chinotimba congratulates Tendai Biti

Buhera West MP Joseph Chinotimba has congratulated former finance minister, Tendai Biti for returning to practising law saying he had finally realised that he was "dining with lunatics" at the MDC.

"I would like to congratulate Biti on concentrating on his law firm rather than concentrating on the MDC politics, a party which has lost direction. I wish there could be more members from his party who will see the light and consider joining Biti's law firm. The MDC would grow into a party of substance instead of being a party which has lost direction and called for sanctions," he said in Parliament while debating a motion on sanctions.

Biti has announced that he had set up a new firm, Tendai Biti Law. Chinotimba said Zimbabweans had rejected the MDC because of the party's stand on sanctions.

"In my point of view, if I was one of the opposition members, I will create another party inside the party because I cannot be led by someone who believes that people should die first. Mr. Speaker Sir, that is why MDC was hammered and rejected by the people of Zimbabwe during the harmonised elections. It is because people were asking who these creatures and enemies are? That is why people rejected them."

Chinotimba also said that people in the diaspora had been affected by sanctions.

"People have been hoodwinked into believing that Zanu-PF had made life so difficult for them that they should go and seek refuge in the diaspora.

These people have the problem of going to other countries, the diaspora and are unable to come back, what they have managed to realise is that Chinotimba is one of the MPs who is participating for their welfare.

These people in the diaspora had financed the opposition parties with the hope that they would bring progress and stability in Zimbabwe. Now, they are regretting. We have people like Chihuri and Spencer in Britain who were funding these opposition parties but they turned back and joined Chinotimba.

Our people in the diaspora, those who were supporting the opposition parties financially, as these days I am communicating with those people who were financing the opposition. I once asked Hon Chamisa if he knows that our children in the diaspora are no longer able to come back home because of sanctions. Last time we heard Chikwinya presenting the issue of sanctions saying that they have a relative who passed on in Britain and they failed to bring the body back home for burial. This is because of sanctions. The same nephew of the deceased, when we tell him that there are sanctions, he denies."