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'Mugabe acts contrary to whats agreed in Monday meetings'
18 May 2013 at 10:08hrs | Views
MDC-T leader Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday exposed his coalition government's key partner President Robert Mugabe's alleged doublespeak, saying the Zanu-PF leader always acted contrary to what they would have agreed in their Monday meetings.
Addressing party members at the launch of the MDC-T's policy conference in Harare, Tsvangirai said after reaching agreement on key policy issues, Mugabe always turned around and gave contrary instructions to his ministers, thereby scuttling government's work programmes.
"We sit down as Principals, we agree, but sometimes as you turn your back, the same contradictory instructions go to Zanu-PF ministers not to implement what we would have agreed," said Tsvangirai.
Some of the issues which Mugabe and the Premier reportedly agreed on include media reforms and an election roadmap with timelines which Justice minister Patrick Chinamasa and Constitutional and Parliamentary Affairs minister Eric Matinenga were tasked to come up with.
However, allegations are that Chinamasa has been elusive, thereby scuttling the process. Tsvangirai said the country's economic performance, which had taken a positive turn at the consummation of the unity government four years ago, took a rapid decline as soon as Mugabe went into election mode.
"We can't have progress, we can't have cohesion in government when there are some people running parallel programmes . . . As soon as Mugabe started election talk, the whole policy cohesion, the whole government work plan was undermined," he said.
Efforts to get a comment from President Mugabe's spokesperson George Charamba were unsuccessful as his mobile phone went unanswered.
Addressing party members at the launch of the MDC-T's policy conference in Harare, Tsvangirai said after reaching agreement on key policy issues, Mugabe always turned around and gave contrary instructions to his ministers, thereby scuttling government's work programmes.
"We sit down as Principals, we agree, but sometimes as you turn your back, the same contradictory instructions go to Zanu-PF ministers not to implement what we would have agreed," said Tsvangirai.
Some of the issues which Mugabe and the Premier reportedly agreed on include media reforms and an election roadmap with timelines which Justice minister Patrick Chinamasa and Constitutional and Parliamentary Affairs minister Eric Matinenga were tasked to come up with.
However, allegations are that Chinamasa has been elusive, thereby scuttling the process. Tsvangirai said the country's economic performance, which had taken a positive turn at the consummation of the unity government four years ago, took a rapid decline as soon as Mugabe went into election mode.
"We can't have progress, we can't have cohesion in government when there are some people running parallel programmes . . . As soon as Mugabe started election talk, the whole policy cohesion, the whole government work plan was undermined," he said.
Efforts to get a comment from President Mugabe's spokesperson George Charamba were unsuccessful as his mobile phone went unanswered.
Source - newsday
