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MDC-T legislator says ZANU-PF MP should talk about Jonathan Moyo and Robin Hood instead regurgitating the President’s Speech

A Movement for Democratic Change legislator, Prosper Mutseyami, yesterday said Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front Member of Parliament Beatrice Nyamupinga should talk about real issues like the abuse of funds and Jonathan Moyo instead of presenting the Presidential speech.

Mutseyami rose on a point of order during Nyamupinga’s presentation saying: “The Hon. Member is doing a presentation of a Presidential Speech but she is skating around the issue of Robin Hood.  The issue of abuse of funds…she is not speaking about what is happening about Jonathan Moyo.  I think it is a good idea that that is included.”

Nyamupinga had been showering praise on President Robert Mugabe and the bills that he had announced would be tabled in Parliament in the current session and continued after the interruption without mentioning Robin Hood or Moyo.

Full debate:

HON. NYAMUPINGA:  I move the motion standing in my name that a respectful address be presented to the President of Zimbabwe as follows:- May it please you, your Excellency the President:

We, the Members of Parliament of Zimbabwe, desire to express our loyalty to Zimbabwe and beg leave to offer our respectful thanks for the speech, which you have been pleased to address to Parliament.

HON. MANDIPAKA:  I second.

HON. NYAMUPINGA:  Madam Speaker, I seek your indulgence if I do not do justice to this motion because sometimes we do not know when we get the Presidential Speeches ready in the Papers Office.  We get them late and usually it is a week in between but this time around , it was only a weekend but I will do my best.

Thank you Madam Speaker for according me this opportunity to debate this afternoon on the Speech that the President of Zimbabwe presented into this House on Thursday, 6th October, 2016.  Allow me to thank and congratulate the President for presenting a very clear legislative agenda for the Fourth Session of the Eighth Parliament, which Parliament should follow.

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