By Stephen Sarkozy Chuma
News that ZANU PF youths are making sanitizers and masks seems like a good gesture at face value but underneath this is cheap political grandstanding that should be treated with contempt it deserves.
It is devoid of logic, mind boggling and useless for ZANU PF Youths to go to town telling everyone who cares to listen that they are helping government in the fight against Covid-19 by making substandard sanitizers and masks that fall short of WHO requirements whilst the masses are dying of hunger.
Yes Covid-19 is real, but thousands of our countrymen are dying of hunger and starvation en-mass during this lockdown.
A damning recent UN Report puts at 4 million the number of people facing acute food shortages and starvation in Zimbabwe.
Clearly, food distribution to the masses dying of hunger should be a priority more than anything else.
Common sense and hierarchy of needs philosophy tell us that it is senseless and useless to sanitize and face mask dead bodies – victims of starvation!
Clearly these fellows from a party that embezzled US$3 billion meant for food security through Command Agriculture are taking us for a ride.
Can Zimbabwe trust these unprofessional ‘youthies’ to produce WHO standard masks and sanitizers given the track record of unfulfilled promises by their dwindling party?
Remember Emmerson Mnangagwa’s electoral promises on those expensive 2018 election campaign billboards?
Food for All, Health for All, Housing for All….the list of lies is infinite!
Before we even think of the said masks and sanitizers, Zimbabweans must ask what happened to Stone Age bakeries initiative by the very same Youth League that was meant to ease bread shortages?
ZANU PF are masters of deception, lies and cheap propaganda and nothing good comes from Shake-Shake building!
Simply put ZANU PF should spare the long suffering masses fighting both hunger and Covid-19 from their disinteresting jokes.
ZANU PF youths making masks and sanitizers is akin to treating citizens with scorn, ridicule, mockery and derision.
This is no time for toi-toing and cheap sloganeering, the country is facing starvation and a deadly pandemic!
Thumps up to the MDC Alliance Youth Assembly for fronting a realistic #SaveThePoor campaign.
Human lives and survival precedes everything else.
That is leadership!
Stephen Sarkozy Chuma
MDC Youth Assembly National Spokesperson
