Dear Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi and Advocate Mudenda,

You must have taken my advice serious when I told you to release the $7.5 million to the rightful party with immediate effect. Had you followed my advice, you would have spared yourself from being embarrassed in the Courts of Law which fall under your ministry. That a whole cabinet minister goes to the media to make such reckless statements is mind boggling, especially for a country which is trying to make an impression that it is reforming to the international community, whose ministers and speaker of parliament should go an extra mile to prove beyond doubt the claim that the country is changing from the past dictatorial rule of Robert Mugabe. On the contrary, people in influencial public offices are proving to be worse than those in the previous Mugabe regime.

Advocate Mudenda, I am also kindly and generously advising you to re-visit your dismissal of MDC Alliance Parliamentarians you kicked out of Parliament with immediate effect. In the first place, you are in contempt of Parliament for making the only business of the day in Parliament an item that was not on the agenda of Parliament business as per the notice sent to Parliamentarians. In fact, you just need to resign with immediate effect, and whoever becomes the next Speaker of Parliament can clean up your mess. Your handling of this issue leaves people to think that you never reformed from your Willowvale Scandal behaviour, and it is my wish if Mnangagwa could handle this scandal of yours the same way Mugabe handled the Willovale Scandal those many years ago.

It is unfortunate that many people have tried to add their own wishful thinking to the Supreme Court ruling which is a mere suggestion for people who were elected to the MDC-T structures at the 2014 Congress to hold an Extra-Ordinary Congress, should they wish to re-unite as MDC-T. Many misinterpreted that suggestion as mandatory, and the High Court judgement passed today which directs Minister Ziyambi Ziyamba not to give money due to the MDC Alliance to the MDC-T vindicates my interpretation of the ruling, simple. Of cause the Supreme Court, in my view, was right in all its observations and in its judgement. Yes, the constitution had not been followed in the appointments made by the late MDC founding President, the late Dr. Richard Morgan Tsvangirai, but the members he left behind had officially divorced after Dr. Khupe held her congress and she and Advocate Chamisa registered different parties that contested the 2018 elections.

I end this open with a request to Advocate Mudenda to re-Swear in the parliamentarians that he wrongfully dismissed by 15 May 2020. As said before, I am willing to contribute financially to a court appeal against the expulsion of the MDC Alliance Parliamentarians.

Kennedy Kaitano

Background reading

My previous post instructing Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi to release Z$7.5 million to the party that has right to it …