The MDC T President Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai (Pictured) says that Zanu PF has a hidden agenda within the inclusive government by its failure to adhere to the outstanding issues of the Global Political Agreement and its militarizing of rural communities.“We are aware of the extensive militarization of the countryside through massive deployment of the military and the setting up of bases of violence that we saw after the 29th of March 2008. Over and above this, we are aware of over 16 000 of Zanu PF youth functionaries who have been imposed on the government payroll,” said the MDC President.
Tsvangirai highlights that there is an extensive militarizing of the countryside, which is a traditional Zanu PF method of instilling fear among peasants as well as practicing gross human rights abuses as evident in Matabeleland in the 80s.
Tsvangirai also paused a question on Zanu PF’s commitment to the power sharing deal because the party continues to pursue trumped up charges against the party’s deputy minister of Agriculture designate Roy Bennett who Mugabe is accusing of treason. There is also the outstanding issue of the RBZ Governor and Attorney General as well as the appointment of provincial governments.
“It is regrettable to note that provincial governors have not been appointed to date despite agreement on every item. Equally, it is unacceptable that the issues of the RBZ governor and the AG have not been resolved despite the self-evident illegality in their appointment. More indecently is the fact that even the government itself has not fully been constituted due to the failure to swear in the deputy minister of Agriculture,” he added.
Because of the above mentioned the MDC T President strongly feels that the government has not been fully operational and therefore doing a disservice to the public as a result of selfish politics perpetuated by Zanu PF.
“Perhaps more embarrassingly is the fact that there has been no review of the GPA nor of the ministerial positions six months after 26 January 2009.
In this period, we have seen a complete lack of paradigm shift on the part of Zanu PF. Instead, we have seen total abuse and disrespect of the GPA and in particular of the MDC. Ministerial mandates have been changed unilaterally; government internal rules have not been changed to recognize the new reality. Over and above this, some government agencies, in particular few components in the National Security forces still behave as if the old order exists. The National Security Council itself has met only once in nine months,”
said Tsvangirai in his statement.
Today is exactly 264 days since the extra-ordinary summit of SADC of
26 January 2009 that directed the formation of the transitional government, which government started work on the 13th February 2009.
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