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Mudenda warns MDC-T MPs
17 Jun 2015 at 01:15hrs | Views
Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda has warned MDC-T MPs against heckling Zanu-PF legislators who survived the party's brutal purge saying "all political parties are not perfect".
Mudenda told MDC-T MPs who were jeering former Cabinet minister Webster Shamu, who is currently serving a three-year suspension on allegations of being part of a group that was working with ousted Vice-President Joice Mujuru to allegedly topple President Robert Mugabe, to stop it, saying their party was also not immune to the internal turbulence rocking Zanu-PF.
Shamu was being heckled by the MDC-T MPs as he debated the Presidential speech with legislators who included Murisi Zvizwai and Tabitha Khumalo saying: "You are singing for your supper".
"I would want to advise honourable members that we should not take advantage of internal party political dynamics and democracy to abuse each other. All political parties are not perfect and we must be cognisant of that. Imagine if all of us were to take what is happening to some political parties and bring it here. What will happen? There will be chaos," Mudenda said.
As Shamu was debating the Presidential speech, Zvizwai together with other MPs continuously heckled him saying he was praise-singing President Robert Mugabe so that he could stay long in Zanu-PF as most of his colleagues who were linked to the Mujuru camp had been kicked out of the party with some losing their parliamentary seats.
"That's why you are saying Mugabe has vision . . . It's too late. Very soon, you will follow the likes of (Kudakwashe) Bhasikiti," Zvizwai shouted from his bench.
Although the MDC-T MPs were heckling Shamu, the former Zanu-PF political commissar seemed unfazed by the attacks from the opposition MPs as he continued with his praise-singing of Mugabe, describing the 91-year-old leader as a visionary President who is an "African icon".
Mudenda told MDC-T MPs who were jeering former Cabinet minister Webster Shamu, who is currently serving a three-year suspension on allegations of being part of a group that was working with ousted Vice-President Joice Mujuru to allegedly topple President Robert Mugabe, to stop it, saying their party was also not immune to the internal turbulence rocking Zanu-PF.
Shamu was being heckled by the MDC-T MPs as he debated the Presidential speech with legislators who included Murisi Zvizwai and Tabitha Khumalo saying: "You are singing for your supper".
"I would want to advise honourable members that we should not take advantage of internal party political dynamics and democracy to abuse each other. All political parties are not perfect and we must be cognisant of that. Imagine if all of us were to take what is happening to some political parties and bring it here. What will happen? There will be chaos," Mudenda said.
As Shamu was debating the Presidential speech, Zvizwai together with other MPs continuously heckled him saying he was praise-singing President Robert Mugabe so that he could stay long in Zanu-PF as most of his colleagues who were linked to the Mujuru camp had been kicked out of the party with some losing their parliamentary seats.
"That's why you are saying Mugabe has vision . . . It's too late. Very soon, you will follow the likes of (Kudakwashe) Bhasikiti," Zvizwai shouted from his bench.
Although the MDC-T MPs were heckling Shamu, the former Zanu-PF political commissar seemed unfazed by the attacks from the opposition MPs as he continued with his praise-singing of Mugabe, describing the 91-year-old leader as a visionary President who is an "African icon".
Source - newsday
