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Chin'ono raps Senate President for dirty meddling in ZFM affairs
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HARARE - Award‑winning investigative journalist Hopewell Chin'ono has slammed Senate President Mabel Chinomona for interfering in ZiFM Stereo's programming, following backlash over the station's inclusion of former CCC spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere in a "Person of the Year" poll.
"You, @Cde_MMChinomona, are an ultimate embarrassment to Zimbabwe, including ZANU PF," Chin'ono posted on X.
He criticised Chinomona for focusing on a radio poll while the country faces severe challenges.
"How can the President of the Senate of an entire country involve herself in a radio station's fun poll about Person of the Year while more than 2,500 women are dying during childbirth, the biggest hospital has only one maternity theatre, the whole country has no single working radiotherapy cancer treatment machine, unemployment stands at over 90 percent, citizens receive only two to four hours of electricity per day, and the country is facing an open succession war," he said.
Chin'ono accused Chinomona of embarrassing both the country and President Emmerson Mnangagwa by publicly attacking a youth‑oriented radio station.
"This is political and media illiteracy of the highest order. ZiFM is a youth radio station. Its audience is largely young and unemployed people. It is therefore natural that its listeners would relate to and support Fadzayi Mahere, a young lawyer they see as speaking to their lived realities and struggles," he said.
"Have some shame, Madam, and focus on statecraft, not radio polls. For the President of a country's Senate to threaten a radio presenter with persecution over a light‑hearted poll is a new low for Zimbabwe."
He added: "You have sunk from the gutter into the sewer. You are internationalising your lack of common sense and embarrassing yourself on a global stage."
Chin'ono concluded by quoting Mahere: "Zimbabwe needs new and mature leaders, not skunks like you, ma'am."
Chinomona had earlier posted on X accusing ZiFM presenter Misred of being a sellout.
"She is an embarrassment to the democratic space in Zimbabwe. Misred must resign from ZiFM Stereo, or risk facing the full wrath of the law," Chinomona wrote.
"Youths from all corners of Zimbabwe are already signing petitions calling for ZiFM to sack this sellout."
"You, @Cde_MMChinomona, are an ultimate embarrassment to Zimbabwe, including ZANU PF," Chin'ono posted on X.
He criticised Chinomona for focusing on a radio poll while the country faces severe challenges.
"How can the President of the Senate of an entire country involve herself in a radio station's fun poll about Person of the Year while more than 2,500 women are dying during childbirth, the biggest hospital has only one maternity theatre, the whole country has no single working radiotherapy cancer treatment machine, unemployment stands at over 90 percent, citizens receive only two to four hours of electricity per day, and the country is facing an open succession war," he said.
Chin'ono accused Chinomona of embarrassing both the country and President Emmerson Mnangagwa by publicly attacking a youth‑oriented radio station.
"This is political and media illiteracy of the highest order. ZiFM is a youth radio station. Its audience is largely young and unemployed people. It is therefore natural that its listeners would relate to and support Fadzayi Mahere, a young lawyer they see as speaking to their lived realities and struggles," he said.
"Have some shame, Madam, and focus on statecraft, not radio polls. For the President of a country's Senate to threaten a radio presenter with persecution over a light‑hearted poll is a new low for Zimbabwe."
He added: "You have sunk from the gutter into the sewer. You are internationalising your lack of common sense and embarrassing yourself on a global stage."
Chin'ono concluded by quoting Mahere: "Zimbabwe needs new and mature leaders, not skunks like you, ma'am."
Chinomona had earlier posted on X accusing ZiFM presenter Misred of being a sellout.
"She is an embarrassment to the democratic space in Zimbabwe. Misred must resign from ZiFM Stereo, or risk facing the full wrath of the law," Chinomona wrote.
"Youths from all corners of Zimbabwe are already signing petitions calling for ZiFM to sack this sellout."
Source - Byo24News
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