
Tee Kay
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𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗗𝗢 𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗟𝗜𝗔𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡𝗦 𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗧𝗢 𝗗𝗢 𝗜𝗡 𝗥𝗘𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗡 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗘𝗬 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗩𝗜𝗦𝗜𝗧𝗦 𝗙𝗥𝗢𝗠 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗡𝗧’𝗦 𝗔𝗦𝗦𝗢𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗦? In the past two weeks, our Members of Parliament who are deliberating over the public submissions on the constitutional amendment bill 3 (CAB3) have met with the President’s advisor, Paul Tungwarara, and now it is alleged that Wiknell Chivayo, another associate of the President, has pledged to give them a gift of $3.6 million. Is this not a conflict of interest or, in the worst case, lubrication (a bribe) that opens up MPs’ deliberations on CAB3 to manipulation? Our Parliament is meant to be a law-making body that also serves as a self-regulating oversight body of the separate arms of state: the Presidency, judiciary, and Parliament itself, through the differing political parties and ideologies in the legislature. Now, if parliamentarians are going to be serenaded and given undue monies by associates of the President and people who do business with the state, at a time they are meant to be deliberating on amendments to the Constitution that give the President a term extension and make them [parliament] responsible for selecting the President, what are the chances that they are going to make impartial decisions on this amendment? Part of why many people are not comfortable with the CAB3 amendment is that it gives these same Parliamentarians the responsibility of selecting the President, and there is a fear that such a system allows them to be bribed and bought by wealthy people to elect them as President. Now, while parliamentarians are still in the process of deliberating over this contentious amendment of the Constitution, we are already seeing them being given financial inducements by associates of the President and people who do business with the state. How does this build confidence in the Bill or parliament? What is the reason for MPs being given these monies by private businesspeople, and in line with the principle of quid pro quo (something for something) what do they have to do in return for these unearned gifts? What happens when the same parliamentarians are offered more money by someone else to make a different decision?


































