In the rest of the country, no consultations took place either because members of the Constitutional Parliamentary Committee (COPAC) that is leading the exercise failed to turn for reasons best known to that clearly overwhelmed committee.
Or in the cases where they pitched up such as in some districts in Masonaland East and Central provinces, consultation could not take place because there was no stationery or recording equipment to capture the views of the public.
Just why this would happen only Messrs Douglass Mwonzora, Paul Mangwana and Edward Mkhosi know. But you would have expected even the dumbest idiot to know that there was no point launching the outreach exercise before the COPAC teams and equipment were in position to record the views of the public.
With the COPAC overawed by the whole occasion and unable to show leadership, the killing and torture gangs that have been in semi-retirement since the advent of unity government are quickly emerging out of the woodwork to carry on from where they left in June 2008.
It is definitely early days yet to say where this whole process will end, suffice it to say the future looks bad very bad!
If in doubt here are the statistics: last Thursday, that is a day after the outreach exercise began, an estimated 200 uniformed soldiers marched in the Chikangwe and Chiedza suburbs of Karoi in Mashonaland West province chanting Zanu (PF) slogans.
They threatened to bring war to the doorstep of anyone who will dare utter views contrary to those of Zanu (PF) during the outreach exercise.
In Mashonaland East province, four homes in Mudzi district were last week burnt during political violence related to the outreach exercise. While in Mashonaland West three monitors from the Zimbabwe Peace Project, Zimbabwe Election Support Network and Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights were seriously assaulted by Zanu (PF) youths who also stole money and property from them.
The list of incidents of violence is growing by the day and in short this means we are slowly descending to the dark old days of the run-up to the June 27 sham election.
Messrs Mwonzora, Mangwana and Mkhosi will tell you there is little they can do to stop the violence or provide required resources if they are not given money by central government or NGOs. Of course, they are absolutely right and that is the biggest problem with this constitutional exercise.
There is no one to take responsibility. Each is quick to point the finger at the other and you can expect more of this blame game in the days ahead. How pathetic that a government could chose to behave so dishonestly.
Post published in: Editor: Wilf Mbanga