President Mnangagwa Under Threat From Chinese People - Mliswa
Norton MP Temba Mliswa has warned President Emmerson Mnangagwa that he risks capturing by Chinese nationals operating businesses in Zimbabwe if they are allowed to be a law unto themselves.
Mliswa revealed to fellow parliamentarians that he had escaped a kidnapping attempt at a Chinese-owned tile manufacturing firm in his constituency.
He was speaking on a point of privilege in Parliament on Thursday. He said:
The government must review relations with China. I was kidnapped yesterday (Wednesday) in my constituency. Chinese have no respect for the laws of this country.
Today it is Mliswa but next, it will be the President (Mnangagwa), Mr Speaker Sir.
They violate the Labour Act most of the time, beating up employers (Zimbabweans).
They have no respect for human dignity. They do shoddy business deals, contracts violated. We no longer have our faces in our own land.
They are also bringing in a strain of STIs which has proved difficult to treat in this country doctors have confirmed.
They hire and fire willy-nilly.
A Chinese worker at the factory allegedly assaulted a local chief, Chief Chivero resulting in his (Chinese national) arrest.
Reports indicate that the Chinese man was deported.
