Zanu PF thugs today disrupted the Constitutional All-Stakeholders Conference at the Harare International Conference Centre after they hurled abuse at the Speaker of Parliament and brought the proceedings to virtual chaos. (Pictured: Delegates leaving the conference today. photo by Trudy Stevenson)The thugs were led by Zanu PF youth leader and Mt Darwin South MP Saviour Kasukuwere, Zvimba East MP and President Robert Mugabes nephew, Patrick Zhuwawo, disgraced self-styled war veterans leader Joseph Chinotimba and former Hatcliffe MP, Nyasha Chikwinya.
The Zanu PF-induced chaos is obviously meant to derail the Constitution-making process and to prevent the people of Zimbabwe from writing their own Constitution.
Zanu PF has chosen to disrupt a Constitutional process enshrined in the Global Political Agreement. Zanu PF has not only walked out but disrupted a roadmap clearly defined by SADC and the AU as the only route to having legitimate leadership in Zimbabwe. Zanu PF has clearly relapsed into its violent mode to fight a legitimate national programme.
Judging by todays events, Zanu PF MPs and the partys delegates were clearly reading from a script whose sole agenda is to derail the Constitution-making process. First it was the failed attempt to foist the Kariba draft on the people. Second was the attempt to cheat on the accreditation process by bussing thousands of innocent old men and women to the venue. Now they have publicly declared war against the people of Zimbabwe who want a Constitution by themselves and for themselves.
The plot is clear. The idea is to derail the Constitution-making process so as to delay the holding of free and fair elections which will inevitably see Zanu PF confined to the archives.
The MDC is a party of excellence. We urge SADC and the AU to immediately intervene to save the Constitution-making process which is under threat from Zanu PF thugs who have consistently shown their disdain of the GPA, to which they have appended their signature.
These are the same people who have refused to convene the National Security Council as enshrined in the Constitution. These are the people who have pursued a persecution agenda against the MDC MPs, members and civic groups. They have refused to swear-in Senator Roy Bennett as deputy Agriculture and to bring finality to other outstanding issues such as governors, ambassadors and Permanent Secretaries. These are the same people who have stood in the way of an amicable resolution of the contentious issues of the Reserve Bank Governor and the Attorney-General.
Zanu PF can run but they will not hide. The peoples project can only be delayed but not abandoned.
Together to the end, marching to a new Zimbabwe.
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