MDC manifesto vows to "streamline" security sector - whatever that means!

MDC manifesto proposes to “streamline” the security sector. This is typical of Tsvangirai and MDC; developing a major policy on the hoof and announcing it at the most inopportune moment! 

 

MDC said the party will “dissolve Joint Operation Command (JOC) and create in its place a National Security Council”. To start with, JOC is not a statutory body and therefore there is nothing to dissolve. Second, renaming JOC, which seems be what MDC is proposing is not going to change anything on the ground.  

MDC "seeks to streamline the country’s security services, who have for so long been acting with impunity!" What the f**** is that supposed to mean?

 

For the last four and half years everyone has talking of the need of democratic reforms in the security sector designed to end the unnatural and wholly undemocratic reality that now exist in Zimbabwe were the Police, Army, CIO and Prison Services Officers have become co-opted to become Zanu PF thugs. SADC agreed to the reforms and they were one of the corner stones in the GPA. Sadly MDC has done nothing, absolutely nothing to get the reforms implemented.

 

It was only in the last three months, in a panic, that MDC started talking of security sector chiefs and of security sector "realignment" although the idiots would not say what they were talking about or explain "realignment" meant.

 

Now MDC's election manifesto talks of security sector "streamlining" as if everyone will immediate know what that means. Mugabe and Zanu PF will seize on this and tell the nation MDC will want to fire everyone in the security sector and replace them with MDC loyalists.

 

The democratic reforms were meant to ensure the security sector personal are divorced of their political links with political parties so that they perform their duties of keeping law and order and defending the nation without fear or favour. What MDC are suggesting here is replacing a pro-Zanu PF security sector with a pro-MDC one.

 

The nation is expecting the security chiefs to remain none-partisan throughout the elections. This stupid announcement is, no doubt, going to convince hot heads like General Douglas Nyikayaramba to do just that.

Thank you Tsvangirai; you have just reminded the nation just how breathtakingly incompetent you are – as if anyone needed reminding! And doing so three weeks before elections; great timing.