HARARE The events at the Constitution Conference were predictable according to The National Constitutional Assembly (NCA). In a recent statement, the NCA reiterated its call for a genuinely people-driven constitution making process and said that they would not be a part of the sham process in article 6 of the Global Political Agreement.We are appalled by the unrelenting effort from the proponents and drivers of this process to have the NCA participate in a process we have long said we cannot trust. For the record, the NCA believes that the process which politicians are insisting on is fundamentally flawed and thus we have taken a principled stance to distance ourselves from this charade of a process, the statement read.
The events at the conference only served to confirm the NCAs belief that the constitution making process must not be subjected to the whims and tactics of politicians.
It is our belief that any genuine process must place everyone at the same level. What we saw at the conference is that the process is a political process seeking legitimacy from civic society. Civic players who attended the event were reduced to spectators as politicians took charge.
The NCA said they were not shocked by the behaviour displayed at the conference, given Zanu (PF)s history.
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