Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister, Emmerson Mnangagwa, has been taken to task over his botching of Parliamentary cardinals.
Mnangagwa has sabotaged the democratic discharge of affairs in the August House, by dodging on the monitoring of crucial government Commissions.
This expose was made by Harare West Member of Parliament, Jessie Majome, who revealed, “every Commission must submit to Parliament, through the responsible Minister, an annual report describing fully its operations and activities”.
Lamenting the VP Mnangagwa’s disappointing response, Majome further explains; “the report submitted not later than the end of March in the year following the year to which the report relates. I asked him the very same question last year about this delay.”
She made a swipe at Mnangagwa whom she accused of exhibiting a patronising behavior, “The VP’s response is the usual patronising response that as a Government they are working on it, similar to his response last year. Government continues to ride roughshod over the Constitution.”
The tough talking Majome further reveals that Government is in contravention of section 323 of the constitution resolutely stating that she will continue the fight for the Supreme Law of the land to be adhered to, “in fact Government’s work is so simple. All they have to do is to follow the Constitution. Surely this is not much to ask.”
Majome has remained one of the few visible MPs in a Parliament full of dead wood, with many going for several sessions without contributing to any debate.