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MPS PLAYED WITH PEOPLE’S EMOTIONS

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Sir,

Members of Parliament, as expected you have once again played with the emotions of the electorate. You raised our hopes that perhaps you are not a rubber stamp institution by raising a pertinent issue in respect of the budget which you rightly pointed out to be not friendly to your constituencies. Most of us knew that your move of not approving the budget was ‘still-born’.


Any other result would have been a miracle, albeit a welcome one to the electorate. For a brief moment we thought you had suddenly realised that in terms of the Constitution, you wield so much power as the legislative arm of government.


Your function is to make laws, and if you have suddenly awaken to the fact that the current budget is not people friendly, the logical question would be: what people friendly laws have you passed in the four years that you have been entrusted with the power to make laws?


Most of us knew that the stunt of blocking the budget was an electioneering strategy based on playing with our emotions considering that 2018 is fast approaching, and most of you are extremely worried on whether you will make it back to the august House.


The one thing that you succeeded in doing was arouse our emotions and you did that for nothing but self-serving interests. The litany of questionable decisions that you have been party to in the current Parliament bear testimony to the fact that you don’t care about a people-friendly budget or spending.


The terrible state of our rural roads bears testimony to this serious collusion between yourselves and the Executive.
Your stunt has been counter productive in the sense that we are now asking ourselves some important questions: Are we getting value for the money we are paying you? Do we have the right quality to make a meaningful contribution to government and drive this country towards vision 2022?


Having the right quality would ensure that none of the other two arms of government would bully you into accepting something you don’t believe in, that is the essence of having the three arms of government.
If one of the arms is ineffective, that government would limp, and a limping government will never be effective and would most certainly never accomplish anything for its citizenry.


Just as a reminder on some of the things you have been doing in the past four years;
You have continued to allow the Executive to spend most of our meager resources on the army to a point where we are now in the same league as countries that are at war in terms of the expenditure on defence as a percentage of GDP.


You have allowed the Executive to spend our meager resources on white elephants that will never improve the lives of the citizenry.
You have allowed the Executive to dismally fail to provide basic services to the people; in mind comes the travel documents issue; the failure to provide citizens with the SADC driver’s licences.


The list is endless, our only consolation is the fact that we will be going back to vote come 2018 and our only prayer is that a majority of you should be eliminated, you don’t deserve to be Members of Parliament.

Hanger
MHLUME

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