Tinashe Sambiri|The MDC Alliance has dismissed the statement issued by Information Ministry Permanent Secretary Nick Mangwana accusing doctors of ” killing Zanu PF officials.”
Mangwana shocked all and sundry at the weekend when he accused local doctors of being used by government opponents to eliminate top officials.
MDC Alliance Nambibia has strongly condemned Mr Mnangagwa’s hysterical remarks:
OUR DOCTORS AND NURSES ARE CERTIFIED NATIONAL HEROES NOT ASSASSINS ! MDC ALLIANCE NAMIBIA FUMES AT NICK MANGWANA.
25 JANUARY 2021
Mdc Alliance Namibia has noted with great astonishment the continued victimisation and state-sponsored harassment of doctors by the clueless and desperate Zanupf morons in the name of Nick Mangwana.
After the former corrupt Minister of Health Obadiah Moyo illegally pocketed 60 million US dollars donated to arrest the spread of the deadly Covid-19 pandemic, hot-headed Nick Mangwana still wants to hoodwink the masses by blaming innocent and diligent doctors for the death of Zanupf leaders who attended parties ignoring Covid-19 rules and regulations.
We are quite perturbed by such levels of political hypocrisy manifesting in gross misgovernance and an attempt to blackmail our national heroes and heroines who are using all their organs to save lives under horrible working conditions and meagre salaries. It is absolutely astounding to hear a deliberate branding of certain medical professionals as “medical assassins” by an insensitive and overambitious senior government official. As a district, we demand an end to the threats of arbitrary arrests, and politically-motivated deregistration of hardworking and committed medical practitioners who are alleged to have communicated unethical statements on social media.
Furthermore, it is not a crime to advocate for improved working conditions and handsome salaries in the health sector. It is a public secret that our health fraternity is now dilapidated due to looting and corruption. Obadiah Moyo who is walking free after stealing the money which was supposed to buy PPEs and that is what the medical practitioners are demanding. The rogue government must stop their continuous persecution and torture of our health care professionals, instead it must appreciate the sacrifice from these frontline soldiers who are giving it all for unsalted peanuts (meagre salaries).
Moreover, the incessant intimidation and attack on doctors is obviously going to unnecessarily destabilise the health fraternity during this juncture when the nation is expected to be focusing on combating the deadly Covid-19 pandemic. Nick Mangwana and his politically inept Zanupf must consider the need for a serious collaboration between the desperate and empty government, health workers and the citizenry at large. They must immediately halt politicising everything including the health sector through its bullying tactics. We urge the health fraternity , the general populace and all social democrats to resist Zanupf shenanigans meant to scare and shy away our competent doctors like what they did to Dr Peter Magombeyi who was abducted and tortured for speaking on behalf of the suppressed health workers.
In a nutshell, Mdc Alliance Namibia applauds the pivotal role played by doctors , nurses and cleaners who are working tirelessly to dish out essential services during the pandemic , risking their lives and the lives of their children to save helpless citizens. We salute our Doctors, Nurses and all medical practitioners, the brave soldiers with varlour and nerve to continuously fight day and night to save lives without Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs). These are the most decorated national fighters for a better and healthy Great Zimbabwe.
Mdc Alliance Namibia
Rundu Branch Spokesperson
Robson Ruhanya