Opinion / Columnist
Bunking of parliamentary sessions is total betrayal - Mavambo
25 Apr 2012 at 05:25hrs | Views
Recent revelations that ministers are bunking parliamentary sessions and evading questions regarding the performance of their ministries shows utter contempt and disrespect of the country's institutions and the people that voted them into office.
Making up the line up are the Home Affairs co-ministers Kembo Mohadi (Zanu-PF) and Theresa Makone (MDC-T), Minister of State Security in the President's Office Sydney Sekeramayi (Zanu-PF), and Minister of Local Government, Urban and Rural Development Ignatius Chombo (Zanu-PF).
For some in the line up, history records that such misdemeanor is part of their stay in government as they have become "bigger" than the country's institutions.
As Mavambo Kusile Dawn (MKD) we feel that such actions are a total betrayal of the trust bestowed upon them by those who voted them into office and Zimbabweans in general. As such action should not only be seen to be taken against the four but taken fast to demonstrate that as a nation we value and treat with contempt any attempt by self serving individuals to repudiate their statutory obligations. No minister or individual should be above the body our constitution charges with overseeing executive authority â€" Parliament.
Of great consternation is the fact that the co-ministers of Home Affairs Kembo Mohadi (Zanu-PF) and Theresa Makone (MDC-T) have connived to trash the same institutions that launched them onto the "high pedestal" that they see Parliament as a lesser institution.
Since the inception of GNU we thought that having two people in one ministry would engender efficiency and effectiveness.
But these shocking revelations clearly show that these Ministers are not serious at all and seem not to understand why they are in government. Their collective failure to deal with a simple issue of roadblocks â€" discussed and resolved by the cabinet sometime ago - further strengthens that assertion.
As a party espousing the values of competence and servant leadership we believe that admirable Ministers do not bunk Parliamentary sessions and evade questions regarding their ministries; they look for ways to respond to the needs and interests of their ministries and constituents. They are not self-centred; they concentrate on the constituents.
Ministers serve a purpose and the people who have made it possible for them to lead. In serving a purpose, leaders strengthen credibility by demonstrating that they are not in it for themselves; instead, they have the interests of their ministries and constituents at heart.
Making up the line up are the Home Affairs co-ministers Kembo Mohadi (Zanu-PF) and Theresa Makone (MDC-T), Minister of State Security in the President's Office Sydney Sekeramayi (Zanu-PF), and Minister of Local Government, Urban and Rural Development Ignatius Chombo (Zanu-PF).
For some in the line up, history records that such misdemeanor is part of their stay in government as they have become "bigger" than the country's institutions.
As Mavambo Kusile Dawn (MKD) we feel that such actions are a total betrayal of the trust bestowed upon them by those who voted them into office and Zimbabweans in general. As such action should not only be seen to be taken against the four but taken fast to demonstrate that as a nation we value and treat with contempt any attempt by self serving individuals to repudiate their statutory obligations. No minister or individual should be above the body our constitution charges with overseeing executive authority â€" Parliament.
Since the inception of GNU we thought that having two people in one ministry would engender efficiency and effectiveness.
But these shocking revelations clearly show that these Ministers are not serious at all and seem not to understand why they are in government. Their collective failure to deal with a simple issue of roadblocks â€" discussed and resolved by the cabinet sometime ago - further strengthens that assertion.
As a party espousing the values of competence and servant leadership we believe that admirable Ministers do not bunk Parliamentary sessions and evade questions regarding their ministries; they look for ways to respond to the needs and interests of their ministries and constituents. They are not self-centred; they concentrate on the constituents.
Ministers serve a purpose and the people who have made it possible for them to lead. In serving a purpose, leaders strengthen credibility by demonstrating that they are not in it for themselves; instead, they have the interests of their ministries and constituents at heart.
Source - Mavambo Kusile Dawn (MKD)
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