Jane Mlambo| Opposition MDC-T President Thokozani Khupe has sensationally claimed that the POLAD platform was introduced by the late founding party leader Morgan Tsvangirai when the movement resolved to pursue peaceful means to bring about the government of the day to dialogue.

In her christmas message, Khupe lambasted those who castigated POLAD saying her party has already made great strides by pushing for free sanitary for school girls.

“During the 2014 congress led by Richard Morgan Tsvangirai, we resolved that we will engage in whatever peaceful means to bring about the government of the day to dialogue, therefore it can be correct to say that POLAD is the brainchild of the late president (Tsvangirai),” Khupe said.

“The former Deputy Prime Minister said there has been a “lot of noise coming from outside having said about POLAD”.

“It must be noted that POLAD is not the panacea to all our problems, it is through POLAD that a party with only two representatives of parliament of 350 MPs has managed to persuade government to set aside at least $300 million to attend to the indignity and health hazards of the girl child due to lack of access to sanitary wear.