With the background of the latter as batterers, butchers and murders in
all the elections which were held from the year 2000 when this project
was launched and named after the late ZANU PF dissident Border Gezi it
is worrisome to see such people still being domesticated by the regime
which has always been brutal to its perceived opponents.
With another election in less than two years, it is our concern that
such moves should be stopped forthwith. Civil servants are spending
most of their valuable times in bank ques simply because there isn't
enough cash in the national coffers, yet the government has lots of
money to waste paying ZANU PF militia who have been terrorizing
innocent civilians for quite a long time.
Equally worrying is bumper recruitment of rural youths in police and
defence forces at a time when the government cannot afford to pay its
workforce, let alone maintaining the health, education and other social
delivery systems. As Youth Forum we take this as a miscalculated move
of this dispensation which will only worsen our already pathetic
economic situation. The government should bite what it can chew and
place their priorities correctly to resuscitate this dead economy. It
does not make sense to start calling for the removal of sanctions when
nothing is not yet in motion.
Change must really be visible on the ground for the nation to get
assistance. Unity between the parties in government is not testified by
the sitting on the same tables of various leaders of the parties in
government but also the actions on the ground should buttress the
deliberations.
Meanwhile The Youth Forum is blazing hot for quick implementation of
national healing process. Some members of parliament are going back to
their constituencies were they are holding rallies where they are
inviting both MDC and ZANU PF supporters and they just mentioning in
passing that people should stop fighting and unite since there is now
an inclusive government, but we feel that is not enough to quell the
hurt and hate in societies as a result of political violence which
prevailed in the run-up to the June 27 one man election and even in
other past elections.
National healing process must not be as haphazard as the land grab, it
must be well strategised, community driven and all inclusive in the
exact meaning of the word.
INFORMATION AND PUBLICITY DEPARTMENT
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