President Emmerson Mnangagwa is facing allegations of allowing his wife Auxilia \u201cto usurp constitutional power\u201d.<\/p>\n
Analysts said Mnangagwa\u2019s wife has no right to run government, and questioned in what capacity she met striking doctors when she has no constitutional role in the State bureaucracy.<\/p>\n
Auxillia met with doctors at State House on Friday, in a bid to end the five week-long industrial action. While Auxilia was meeting with the doctors, her husband was taking part in a clean-up campaign in Harare\u2019s red-light district of the Avenues.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s deja vu, some said, drawing parallels with Grace Mugabe, whose meddling in government affairs prompted the ruling Zanu PF party to begin impeachment proceedings against Robert Mugabe on charges that included allowing his wife \u201cto usurp constitutional power.\u201d<\/p>\n
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United Kingdom-based law lecturer Alex Magaisa said Zimbabwe was walking down the same path that led to Mugabe\u2019s ouster.<\/p>\n
\u201cLest we forget, this was part of the impeachment motion against Robert Mugabe in 2017: Allowing his wife to usurp government functions and abrogating his constitutional mandate to his wife\u2026,\u201d Magaisa said.<\/p>\n
However, government defended the first lady\u2019s meeting with doctors.<\/p>\n
Deputy Information minister Energy Mutodi told the Daily News that the doctors are actually the ones who asked to meet with the first lady in order for her to assist in the impasse.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe First Lady did not poke her nose into the doctors\u2019 strike issue. Rather it is the doctors themselves who canvassed for her attention and as a mother of the nation she could not ignore them.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe doctors believed she was the right person through which to air their grievances to the president and as the government we do not see anything untoward in her conduct especially listening to professionals whose strike action can trigger many avoidable deaths,\u201d Mutodi said.<\/p>\n
But Thabiso Bhebhe secretary of the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association said he was away in Bulawayo when the meeting was convened. However, a doctor who declined to be named said it was in fact the first lady who requested the meeting.<\/p>\n
Linda Masarira, the spokesperson of the Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T party, questioned the first lady\u2019s role in the industrial action.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat is the role of the first lady in Zimbabwe? I am worried when I start seeing some traits we disapproved on the conduct of the former first lady Grace Mugabe. In what capacity does she intervene on the doctors\u2019 strike?\u201d she queried.<\/p>\n
Spokesperson of the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC, Jacob Mafume, said the country has tried to use the first lady before and it has proved that it does not work.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s like a bad Kung Fu movie, \u2018The Return of the First Lady \u2013 Monkey Business\u2019. We have tried this first lady route, it does not work. These liberation war fighters are now old men who should be in old people\u2019s homes because of what they went through.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe young wives know it and that\u2019s why they feel the need to assist these out-patients\u2026The guy (Mnangagwa) would rather sweep the streets in neck tie than deal with people dying and hospitals collapsing,\u201d Mafume said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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