Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirais MDC party will have to meet and decide whether to continue participating in the current constitutional outreach exercise which has been marred by incidents of violence and intimidation. In a hard hitting interview, party spokesman Nelson Chamisa said it was now necessary for the leadership to meet and say under the circumstances what is our continued participation in this process. What is the end and what is the product?
He told Newsreel they were receiving reports from their structures, and even from ZANU PF supporters, complaining that they were being frog marched into torture bases, and indoctrinated on what to say before being taken to outreach meetings.
This is very ugly a picture, very disturbing a trend and very discouraging a pattern. When one looks at what has been happening across the whole country its not as if people are being allowed to express themselves.
He likened what was happening to the siege mentality that accompanied the bloody election violence of 2008, when Mugabe and his ZANU PF party lost elections and sent out army units to murder over 500 opposition supporters in retribution.
So will the MDC pull out from the outreach? Look I cant do that, I have no power to make those kind of alternatives or permutations. The leadership will look at these issues forensically and surgically and come up with a position. He said people are being turned into robots and this had made the outreach a farce.
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