Mnangagwa Is Yet To Accept That He Is Just Ceremonial: PDP Comments On Nurses Strike

The opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has claimed that Vice President, Retired General Constantino Chiwenga and President Emmerson Mnangagwa are sharing the presidency and that Mnangagwa is just ceremonial in the arrangement. Speaking on the nurses strike and their subsequent dismissal by Chiwenga, Jacob Mafume, the PDP spokesperson said,

This new concept of a co-presidency being exercised by the Croc (Mnangagwa) and the General is creating a constitutional crisis.

The experiment is not going to work in the current format. One of them has to agree he is ceremonial for it to work. In this case, maybe the Croc (Mnangagwa) was put in for window dressing and is yet to come to terms with it.

They are two lions in the same basket all looking to eat. The strike is political he says without defining what he means. That accusation alone from him is enough to fire every striking nurse as the head of a management cluster, not even a constitutional cluster but an arbitrary management cluster.

The Zimbabwe Nurses Association (ZINA) have since advised the Health Services Board to ignore Chiwenga’s directive warning that they would take the issue to the courts.

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