Farai Dziva|The MDC Alliance Youth Assembly has challenged Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration to take care of the needs of civil servants while they are alive instead of waiting for them to die.
This comes after the announcement by Information Ministry Permanent Secretary, Nick Mangwana, that the government will -with immediate effect- pay the sum of US $ 500 to the family of a civil servant who dies in office.
Read the MDC Alliance Youth Assembly statement below :
21-10-2020
The failed Emmerson Mnangagwa’s regime never ceases to amaze!
At a time when everyone is expecting the government to address the nervous plight of civil servants, Mnangagwa’s carefree government pulled another shock.
This time a bizarre, an extraordinary more than befitting coverage on Star FM’s Tilda Live show where strange happenings are unpacked!
For some strange reasons, Mnangagwa through his mouthpiece, one Ndavaningi Mangwana this week announced that government is willing to pay US$500 demanded by civil servants only over their dead bodies.
What this means is that for teachers, nurses, soldiers, police and other civil servants in order to access a decent wage, they have to die first.
Mnangagwa’s ‘love’ and preference for the dead over the living defies logic!
This is not the first time that Mnangagwa’s regime has exhibited unparalleled gravitation towards the dead.
In 2018, the same regime shocked all and sundry when they forked out millions of US dollars from state coffers just to hire a luxurious plane for repatriation of the corpse of former First Lady, Grace Mugabe’s mother.
Even by own admission, Dr Amai as Grace is referred to was shocked by the affluence albeit through extravagance extended to her dead mother.
Again last year, the same heartless regime offered to build a US$10 million mausoleum for the late Robert Mugabe at a time when the economic was heavily sneezing.
This week’s US$500 offer for dead civil servants comes at a time when teachers are groaning under the yoke of incapacitation which has seen schools being reduced to mini shebeens and brothels.
This ZANU PF regime has become a danger to the living!
Stephen Sarkozy Chuma
MDC Alliance Youth Assembly National Spokesperson
