Health minister Obadiah Moyo has
disclosed that the country is losing about $400 million annually on overseas
medical treatments.
“Having our own up to standard
facilities will make wonders and no-one will be airlifted out of the country
for health treatment and I have shared this with the President,” Moyo said.
So, Minister Moyo thinks the idea of
spending the millions squandered sending the chefs out of the country for their
health care would be better spend on local health care had never occurred to
Mnangagwa and the rest of the Zanu PF leadership? How naïve!
There are basically two reasons why
Zanu PF have allowed the local health care facility collapse:
a) The chefs, from both sides of the political divide,
have continued to enjoy a five-star health care service or be it in SA, India,
China, Singapore, etc. instead of within Zimbabwe. So whilst we the masses have
suffered greatly from the country’s collapsed health care, the Chefs have not.
b) In Zimbabwe going shopping in New York, studying in
London, having your health check in Singapore, having a honeymoon in LA, etc. are
all status statements. One can only imagine the disappointment on Grace Mugabe
and her daughter, Bona’s, faces if they were to hear that there was a local
hospital in Harare offering the same five-star service after all the money they
had spend when Bona her baby in Singapore! And so, the poorer the local service
the weightier the symbolism.
c) Yes, it is very expensive to send the chefs out of
the country for all these health care trips but what of it! It does not cost
the chefs themselves a dollar, the taxpayer pays it all. Indeed, health care
has become just another excuse for the chefs to raid the public coffers.
President Mnangagwa has just returned
from a trip to Japan. He flew there in a hired jet that reportedly costed US$17
million. He probably ordered the jet just hours after Minister Moyo comments
above – there was the middle finger reply!
Poor Obert Gutu, you had your greatest opportunity to prove you care about Zimbabwe during the last GNU, all you had to do was implement the democratic reforms. You failed to get even one reform implemented in five years! You and your fellow MDC friends had your snouts in the feeding trough and forgot about the reforms.
ReplyDeleteAll you are doing now is try to get back on the gravy-train by hook or by crook by being everything to all. Zimbabwe is in this economic and political mess because of Zanu PF's corrupt, incompetent vote rigging and tyrannical rule; only a village idiot would profess to love Zanu PF thugs for what they have done to this nation and its people.
MDC leaders had the golden opportunity to end the Zanu PF dictatorship but sold-out big time. Only a village idiot would profess to love and of these sell-outs.
So, you, Mr Obert Chauruka Gutu, profess to love both Zanu PF thugs and your fellow MDC sell-outs. Well you are a village idiot and a sell-out too. If Zanu PF is finally booted out of office, you can kiss good-bye to ever getting back on the gravy-train! It is village idiots and sell-outs like you who have dragged this nation into this mess and the nation will be saved the day we get rid of all such scum!
All told the Zimbabwe taxpayer must have splash US$ 10 million on the birth of Bona Mugabe's baby. The expecting mother and her entourage flew to the Far East a month or so before the birth. Grace followed two weeks later with her entourage. Mugabe then commandeered an Air Zimbabwe for three day to collect his grandson plus the rest of the family.
ReplyDeleteThis was all happening at time when even big Hospitals like Mbuya Nehanda did not have something as basic as baby incubators!
The economic disparate between the filthy rich ruling elite and the filthy poor povo in Zimbabwe has grown so big, it is now a chasm. It is this desperate that fired up Grace Mugabe to go into politics with such blind determination; the prospect of becoming former First Lady and losing all the privileges was simply unthinkable. No wonder, rather than see Mugabe retire, she offered to buy him a wheelchair if he was too old walk!
The European Union’s Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Timo Olkkonen, says corruption is destroying the country. He said the international appeal for a couple of hundred million dollars to prevent mass starvation would have been met by only a fraction of the stolen money.
ReplyDeleteThe money was paid to Sakunda Holdings, a company run by the ubiquitous Kudakwashe Tagwireyi, who is said to be a key player in the country’s extortionate fuel supply cartel and a conduit for funds to the army and Zanu PF bigwigs.
The extent of state capture in Zimbabwe is shown by Energy Minister Fortune Chasi’s order to the country’s power supply company to reverse a decision to cut off the farms of Zanu PF leaders, including Mugabe’s Gushongo dairy farm, for unpaid bills. The minister said that, given the drought and food shortages, now was not the time to disconnect any farmer.
After nearly 40 years in power Zanu PF leaders have become accustomed to living off the state. They have never had to pay their bills. Like former Defence Minister Sydney Sekeramayi, who is being sued for failing to pay a $311,000 electricity debt. The matter is yet to be set down for a hearing but no doubt Comrade Sekeramayi is busy dealing with ‘the drought and food shortages’.
Zanu PF blatantly rigged last year’s elections.
In the past the party rigged the elections and was rewarded with absolute power and it is little wonder the party has always rigged elections. Enough is enough! The party rigged the elections; this time the party must step down, there will be no but or if!
TRANSPARENCY is a key ingredient in the recipe for success. When mixed together with accountability and sustainability then you have a mix that helps build trust for the establishment. It is these that will help define the success of the New Dispensation. Things that had for years remained tucked under the carpet or regarded as top secret are for once put under public glare. We commit to openness in the stewardship of this nation.
ReplyDeleteThis is to be expected given we have a regime that has for the last 39 years rigged elections and looted the nation’s wealth with complete impunity. As far as Zanu PF is concerned, it is not so much about what is happening on the ground but what the party says is happening. The party blatantly rigged last year’s elections, it failed to produce something as basic as a verified voters’ roll, denied 3 million Zimbabweans in the diaspora the vote, etc. and yet insists the elections were free, fair and credible.
We are being told here that there is “transparency, accountability and sustainability” in the new dispensation and yet the regime has yet to arrest one of those behind wholesale looting of diamonds. The President’s office administered the US$3 billion command agriculture money and has failed to account for any of the money! The Zimbabwe economy is in total meltdown and because of four decades of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption. The human suffering and deaths brought about by the economic meltdown is making Zimbabwe economically, socially and politically unstable.
The country needs to address its economic and political problems as a matter of urgency. This Zanu PF propaganda is not going to get us out of the mess, it is what got us into the mess in the first place.
@ John Musara
ReplyDelete“Zimbabwe is under sanctions period!”
Who said Zimbabwe was not under sanctions!
What is at issue here is Zanu PF propaganda blaming the sanctions for country’s economic meltdown. Just as no one would deny there recent drought and Cyclone Ida but would dismiss the claim the two are responsible for the country’s economic meltdown because the two natural disasters occurred in the last year whereas the economic meltdown dates back to 2 000 and beyond. By the same token, it is rich to blame the sanctions for the economic meltdown when the financial loses due to sanctions are tiny compared to the humongous loses due to mismanagement and corruption.
Why are you obsess about the sanctions but fail to even acknowledge the mismanagement and corruption?
Why are you obsessed about telling the American they must do business with Zimbabwe but fail to hold your own Zimbabwe leaders to account on the criminal waste of the nation’s resources?