In the report Zvoma claimed that an NGO called the Non-State Actors Forum had paid over 500 delegates to attend the conference without the knowledge of the organisers.
This is despite the fact that there were many witnesses, including ZimOnline reporters, who attended the constitutional conference and saw Zanu (PF) leaders among them youth minister Savious Kasukuwere leading the mobs that disrupted the conference.
The MDC said in a statement: The MDC is shocked by reports that Clerk of Parliament Austin Zvoma has (reported) that the chaos that disrupted the first day of the all stakeholders constitution-making process was a result of unaccredited delegates from NGOs.
The report presented by Zvoma is a typical report concocted at Zanu (PF) headquarters. It misses by miles the truth that Zanu (PF) senior officials and rowdy youths were the authors of the chaos.
Zvoma, who like most senior public servants is widely regarded as sympathetic to President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu (PF) party, was not immediately available for comment on the matter.
The constitutional conference only resumed the following day on Tuesday after Mugabe, Tsvangirai and Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara spoke strongly against the mobs that had disrupted the first day of the meeting that had been called to map out the course of constitutional reforms.
But the three leaders said there would be no witch-hunt to find out those who had disrupted the first day of the conference.
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