Armoured tanks roam the streets

in Parliament, armoured tanks obstructed traffic in the streets of Harare. Police officers were stationed at virtually every street corner. Hordes of army personnel armed with machine guns were stationed at Africa Unity Square,” said MDC spokesman Nelson Chamisa. He also condemned Mugabe’s extravagant purchase of new, state-of-the-art BMW motorbikes for his entourage. “The regime’s frenetic love for grandeur, which is typical of all dictators, has become legendary. How could he afford to import over 15 lavish motorbikes when Zimbabweans have no food?” asked Chamisa.
He said Mugabe had failed to provide any answers to the “shameful crisis of governance, characterized by a supersonic inflation, massive unemployment, power blackouts, a collapsing health delivery system, high prices of basic commodities and an acute shortage of foreign currency for critical imports such as fuel, food and medicines”.
On the way forward, Chamisa said the MDC believed the people had a choice to either allow Zanu (PF) to destroy the nation or to take it upon themselves to save Zimbabwe. “Mugabe must go. He has become the personification of the national crisis,” he said.