'People Want Bread, Not Cab3' - Ccc MP Karenyi-Kore Rejects Constitution Amendment Bill

Lynette Karenyi-Kore, a Member of Parliament for Chikanga, has strongly criticized Zimbabwe's Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3 (CAB3), declaring her refusal to support legislation she believes disregards the pressing needs of ordinary Zimbabweans. Speaking in Parliament, the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator argued that the bill disconnects the legislative agenda from the daily struggles of her constituents. "When I travel across my constituency, I do not hear people asking for constitutional amendments, I do not hear mothers asking for CAB3, I do not hear unemployed youths demanding CAB3... Mr Speaker, what I hear are cries for jobs... calls for affordable education, pleas for food on the table Mr Speaker," Karenyi-Kore stated. She emphasized that families are currently grappling with widespread poverty, school dropouts, unemployment, and drug abuse, making the timing of CAB3 inappropriate and its focus misplaced. Karenyi-Kore characterized the bill as "political engineering" and "constitutional experiments" rather than a solution to the nation's problems. She questioned the bill's purpose, asserting that it creates no jobs, fails to lower the price of essential goods like mealie-meal, and does not improve the state of hospitals. "Mr Speaker, people want bread, not political engineering, they want opportunities and not constitutional experiments, they want service delivery, not extension of political power," she declared. Furthermore, the MP warned that CAB3 undermines democratic principles by diluting the electorate's power to choose the nation's highest office. "This amendment takes away the power of the people to elect the highest office of the land, it is unnecessary, undemocratic and totally uncalled for Mr Speaker... authority to govern must come from the people," she asserted. Karenyi-Kore concluded that Zimbabwe's challenges stem from a "governance crisis," not a constitutional one, and therefore, she rejects the bill outright.

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When I travel across my constituency, I do not hear people asking for constitutional amendments, I do not hear mothers asking for CAB3, I do not hear unemployed youths demanding CAB3... Mr Speaker, what I hear are cries for jobs... calls for affordable education, pleas for food on the table Mr Speaker.