Cash crisis to trigger unrest: MDC-T

The country is on a knife edge … Obert Gutu

In a statement Tuesday, party spokesperson Obert Gutu blamed the cash shortages on the “illegitimacy” of the Zanu PF government.

“Fundamentally, the lack of political legitimacy of the Zanu PF regime has to be addressed. Nothing short of this will do,” said Gutu.

“There is a very real risk of civil commotion taking place in the country soon because millions of Zimbabweans have no access to food and even the Zanu PF regime itself is struggling to timorously pay civil servants their salaries. The country is on a knife edge.”

The MDC-T spokesperson said President Robert Mugabe, should spend time at home and address the problems the country faces.

“President Mugabe is now a visitor to Zimbabwe since he spends most of his time outside the country at the rate that the Zimbabwean economy is imploding,” said Gutu.

“The MDC calls upon President Mugabe and his entire Cabinet to immediately step down and to allow for the holding of free, fair and credible elections that will be run and supervised by the United Nations with the active participation of both SADC and the AU.”

Although calling for fresh elections, the opposition party said it was not confident with “the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission’s current composition”.

“As currently constituted, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) is completely incapable of running an election that will pass the test of legitimacy,” said Gutu.

“Besides ZEC being broke, the ZEC secretariat is packed with hard line CIO agents and other security operatives who are determined to rig any election in favour of the ruling but crumbling Zanu PF regime.”