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Farirai Machivenyika and Masline Mavudzi Harare Bureau
THE Professor Welshman Ncube-led MDC Matabeleland South proportional representation member Priscillah Misihairabwi-Mushonga, faces recall from parliament after the party’s Youth Assembly passed a resolution calling for her expulsion from the party. The national executive of the Youth Assembly made the resolution yesterday following its meeting held on Friday and Saturday in Harare.
“We’ll be making recommendations to the leadership of the party that the former secretary general Mrs Priscillah Misihairabwi-Mushonga be expelled from the party and be recalled from Parliament,” said Gideon Mandaza, the party Youth Assembly chairperson at a press conference yesterday. Allegations against Misihairabwi-Mushonga are that she was not representing the people of Matabeleland South properly and was sowing divisions and confusion in the party.
“We’ve received information that she is working tirelessly to have people abandon the party and that she is hardly known in Matabeleland South. She doesn’t interact with people from the province so whose interests is she representing?” he said. Mandaza added that Misihairabwi-Mushonga had instigated the recent resignations of national executive members Lionel De Necker, Josh Muhambi and Sibongile Mgijima.
Other senior MDC members that have resigned include former national chairman Goodrich Chimbaira who quit and re-joined the MDC-T led by Morgan Tsvangirai after he had earlier been suspended on accusation of gross misconduct.
Frank Chamunorwa, the former national vice chairperson, also quit the party. Misihairabwi-Mushonga refused to comment on the matter yesterday. “I’m hearing it from you for the first time, but I don’t have any comment to make,” she said.
Misihairabwi-Mushonga has been dogged by controversy since she was nominated to represent Matabeleland South under proportional representation. Some people in the party questioned her nomination, arguing that she was unfit to represent the province since she did not come from there. The party’s structures in the province even lobbied Prof Ncube to withdraw her nomination just after the 2013 harmonised elections.
Misihairabwi-Mushonga resigned as the MDC secretary general in February this year.
Online Reporter