Obert Gutu should zip-up his mouth

It's a shame that the MDC led by Morgan Tsvangirai have a tendency of hijacking other unions programmes and make them theirs in an attempt to gain political mileage. It's very unfortunate that the MDC-T who at first was saying it was not involved in the recent stay-away was now imprudently riding behind the civil servants stay-away acknowledging that it was part of it.

As it stands MDC-T has proved that it has nothing tangible to offer to the people of Zimbabwe. At the moment, MDC-T spokesperson, Obert Gutu and his allies are capitalizing on attacking government for no apparent reasons. Gutu should be encouraged that he is neither a spokesperson of civil servants or touts. Civil servants have their representatives who stand for them not the MDC-T.

At the moment Gutu should be much worried about the health of his boss, Tsvangirai who is suffering from cancer of the colon instead waffling in the media.

Civil servants should not be fooled by people like Gutu who have a political agenda of regime change. It is pleasing that acting Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister, Supa Mandiwanzira assured civil servants that salary dates will be back to normal this month. Hence, there is no reason for them to be anxious. Unlike other employers, Government has the interest of its employees at heart. It may encounter a slight hiccup but most of its promises will be fulfilled. Remember, some doomsayers were saying government will fail to pay its employees the 2015 promised bonus. But, alas, all its employees received their 13th cheque.

Teachers and nurses unions should be encouraged to channel their grievances through dialogue as stay- away and go slow threaten the education of children. I understand every term has a syllabus that teachers have to work on before term end. When a teacher is absent from school for a day to three it means he may fail to fully achieve the set syllabus deadline. At the end of the day it is our children who suffer most. The same applies to the healthy department. Healthy sector is a critical area where healthy practitioners should be discouraged from engaging in any form of strikes. Government's efforts of mobilizing funds and shifting the health workers pay date from 14 July to 7 July 2016 are much commendable. This depicts the efforts that government is doing as a way of resolving some of the little challenges that are currently being encountered.

It is also surprising that Evan Mawarire the man behind the country's shut down boasts about giving government a deadline to address the so called ‘our demands'.  Who is Mawarire to give government a time limit on its programmes? Government is quite aware of its duties; hence, it cannot be told what to do by a little known attention seeker.

Mawarire should be reminded that the Wednesday stay-away was a forced thing. Most shop owners and transport operators in urban areas were afraid to do business as they were afraid that their shops or vehicles will be destroyed by hooligans.
   
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