MDC MP for Mutare Central Innocent Gonese has asked President Emmerson Mnangagwa to regularise Home Affairs minister Cain Mathema’s appointment to avert a constitutional crisis as he now has more non-constituency MPs appointed as ministers, which is against the governance charter.
Gonese raised the issue in parliament and stated that the executive was improperly constituted owing to Mathema’s appointment.
Said Gonese:
The Constitution provides that the number of non-constituency MPs should not be more than five but we already have six including some who are in here now such as Amon Murwira (Higher and Tertiary Education) July Moyo (Local Government) against the national Constitution. Unlike the previous Constitution which gave the executive up to 90 days to regularise (the issue), the current Constitution does not, which means as it is until that is done, the executive is not properly constituted and the speaker (Jacob Mudenda) must make a ruling forthwith.