By Own Correspondent| Deputy Finance minister Terrence Mukupe’s smelly manure continued to spread today after he insulted HIV patients.
Mukupe was castigated on social media after asking opposition politician Tendai Biti if he took AVR pills before coming to a live radio program on Star FM on Thursday afternoon.
Mukupe ARVs video clip
A whole gvt minister who shamelessly perpetuates stigma against pple living with HIV.
He see it as something to joke about live on radio? @DrDParirenyatwa @MoHCCZim @edmnangagwa @ProfJNMoyo @DougColtart @StarFMNews #MukupeMustFall #ZimbabweYadzoka pic.twitter.com/GfmqhEz4rO
— Victor Chimhutu (@DrVChimhutu) May 24, 2018
Biti accused some corrupt politicians and this did not go well with Mukupe who asked him in Shona, ‘Don’t insult me Biti. Ko iwewe did you take your ARVs today.”
The program was being hosted by Star FM’s 263 Xpress Phathisani and KVG who interjected and apologised to the former finance minister.
Charloto Tsodzo triggered responses when some Zimbabweans castigated Mukupe on social media calling him as ‘uneducated idiot among other sentiments.
Oswell OJ Jeranyama said, ‘It is very pathetic for a minister to be perpetuating stigma around HIV and AIDS,’
Donnemore Ferrari said, ‘When you take a bank clerk and give him a ministerial position, that’s what you get.’
Opposition MP for Harare West Fungayi Jessie Majome asked why did President Emerson Mngagwagwa not fire him.
She posted, ‘Ko why didn’t he send him home first instead of Webster Shamhu when he was arraigned for assaulting a ministry employee? The minister knows how to put the government into disrepute. The President keeps giving him more chances to do so. And why did he appoint him in the first place after he was implicated in the fuel tanker saga? By the way how did that end?’
Many others were livid on their postings but Gloria Rumbidzai Ndoro differed saying people who believe HIV is a stigma then we should be shocked.
‘HIV is like BP and Pulmonary Sarcoidosis which I have. I drink the pills daily. The medical fraternity does not know what causes it or how to treat it. Throughout the world, Sarcoidosis Warriors are being treated for symptoms only. Like HIV, it is a chronic illness. We must not allow HIV infected people to be humiliated by low lives, by dignifying Mukupe’s utterances with further discussion. If I were Biti, I would say, yes I did. Thanks for caring for my health, next question?’
Mukupe has in the news for telling Zanu PF supporters that the army will not accept opposition leader to win forthcoming elections.
Government has since called his statements as ‘reckless, unlawful and unfortunate’
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