The fact that there is an acute lack of medical supplies, basic equipment and manpower in public health institutions— not to mention alarming unemployment, crime and poverty levels, industrial paralysis, pathetically potholed main roads is evidence enough that there is a chronic maintenance syndrome that stems from an age-old notorious, noxious leadership crisis.
Zimbabwe`s constitution firmly specifies that every citizen and permanent resident has a right to access basic healthcare and reproductive healthcare services. Are these accessible? Is electricity available? Health and power blackouts can retort!
Zimbabwe’s so-called leadership is notorious for greed, bungling gallivanting and promoting health tourism. They ace tokenism. They create health and road deathtraps for ordinary citizens, knowing well they fly away as lucky health tourists and fiascoes. Insensitive. Don’t these constitutional provisions make it mandatory for the government to provide this basic right to the ordinary citizens?
This numb regime has failed grimly. Unable, it needed a rest in the past. Citizens are hurt, helpless, distressed and dejected on a daily basis. Several of them are in the diaspora, in neighboring countries, seeking a better a life, trying to eke out a living under trying and dire conditions.
Patriotic, they have been compelled by unlivable economic circumstances that are worsened by rampant corruption and greed to squat and scavenge in foreign lands. They would rather be home with their families and friends than be away and missing, but a leadership disaster is their stumbling block.
They shattered the futures or prospects of most of the adult citizens, and if the rising cases of youth drug abuse by virtue of joblessness and redundancy are anything to go by, the future of the nation remains in the doldrums where doom and gloom are the most active dancers on the dance floor of vicious devastation and decay.
The critical and robust discussions should be on curing the malaise. The nation is endowed with abundant natural resources that hardly profit the majority of the ordinary citizens and the country, plus the youth. The critical and robust discussions should be on curing the leadership malady. Anybody who seeks to initiate steps to amend the constitution so that current president can run for a third term in the 2028 elections is unpatriotic and manic.
His final five-year term expires in 2028, yet some of his cruel and fooling flunkies are urging him to go beyond 2028 with the help of a constitutional amendment and a public referendum. The weary and wise masses are outraged. What an insult! Churches have warned him: refrain from committing a coup against the constitution.
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