Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has criticized opposition legislators for always moaning about the absence of Ministers in parliament. The Vice President said that opposition should be content with dealing with Deputy Ministers when their principals were unable to attend Parliament’s question and answer sessions. Mnangagwa dismissed the actions as posturing.
Said Mnangagwa in an interview last week
Question time is about what is the policy, the direction, the vision (of a ministry). How would you have a deputy who does not know what his ministry is doing and where it intends to go? In many cases, the ministers would be engaged elsewhere, but their deputies would be there.
It is the opposition (which does that) but that is their duty; I do not blame them, that is their duty to criticize.
If there are no ministers, they can make the noise and it passes, because their constituency must know that they are talking, so they must talk, but there have been no questions that have gone unanswered.
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