He said as the architect of the demise of the health sector, Mugabe who has been frequenting Asian countries for treatment in recent months, would experience first-hand the state of the health system if he is treated locally.
He said it was unfair for Mugabe to claim millions of tax payer’s money seeking treatment abroad while the majority of Zimbabweans got treatment from local hospitals offering poor services.
“He should be treated at Parirenyatwa Hospital,” said Sikhala. “Why does he go to Singapore to consume millions of dollars for his treatment? He is the one who has destroyed our medical facilities since 1980 and his destruction of medical facilities must not lead Zimbabwe to splash millions on his illness.”
Senior Zanu PF officials told US diplomats that Mugabe had prostate cancer, according to whistleblower website, WikiLeaks. Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai recently said it was government’s responsibility to pay for Mugabe’s medical expenses.
“The responsibility of the State is to look after its leaders. If the president is sick, he should be attended to,” said Tsvangirai. The Prime Minister was responding to journalists who were eager to know why his and Mugabe’s travel expenses had reached US$29 million dollars in eight months, according to government figures published quarterly.
But Sikhala said every man is entitled to bear the consequences of his actions and as such Mugabe should experience the effects of his ill-advised policies which led to the decay in the country’s health delivery system.
Sikhala also took a swipe at his former colleagues in the MDC-T whom he said were now pre-occupied with wealth accumulation at the expense of the will of the people.
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“The majority of the people who joined Robert Mugabe are now only concentrating on wealth accumulation and they seem to have forgotten their mission. Some of them even confide in us they have 23 bedroomed mansions,” said Sikhala. “They pretend not to be friends outside but deep down, they are very close.”
Sikhala opposed to elections
Sikhala added that his party was opposed to elections being held in Zimbabwe before the setting up of a level playing ground. He said the current situation prevailing in the country pointed to a bloody election.
“A call to elections in this country is a call to bloodbath,” said Sikhala. “Mugabe has always been using violence as a tool to win any election. When he calls for an election, he calls for the manslaughter of innocent citizens of this country.”
MDC-T has said at least 200 of its supporters were murdered during the violent 2008 elections.
