“Below is a snap
interview of former vice president Constantino Chiwenga early Thursday morning
as he claimed that soldiers neither shot nor killed anyone in Harare yesterday.
He spoke to ZimEye’s Simba Chikanza,” reported Zimeye.
In the audio
recording, a voice is heard trying to explain why it could not have been the
soldiers who shot and killed the three civilians.
President Mnangagwa
and his junta government were under pressure for having failed to hold free,
fair and credible elections. They needed something to draw attention away from
the rigged elections and these violent protests were the bolt hole they wanted.
The real tragedy here is that MDC fell for it.
When Minister of
Home Affairs, Obert Mpofu, gave his press interview on Wednesday night, he took
great pleasure in reminding the world of all the reported incidents of violence
within MDC including the attack on Mai Khupe when she failed to attend the MDC
Alliance launch! This is a regime that 8 months ago stage a military coup and
is right now committing yet another act of high treason by blatantly rigging
the elections but all that is chicken feed compared to MDC violence!
One hopes that the
international election observers will not be so easily fooled by these Zanu PF
antics. The observers must not take their eyes off the ball – the elections.
Dr Nkululeko
Sibanda, MDC – Alliance presidential candidate, Nelson Chamisa’s spokesman told
the press that there were “agent provocateurs” planted among the protestors. Surely
this is something that MDC leaders should have anticipated!
There are reports
showing that many of the protestors were high on alcohol and they had fuelled at
the MDC HQ! How stupid and naïve was that!
The observers must
condemn these elections; there is no way these elections can ever be judge
free, fair and credible when there was no credible and verified voters’ roll.
There is no doubt that there was something fishy going on here when ZEC failed
to announce the results when their task was to add up the total of each
candidate – the counting of the votes was all done at the polling stations.
“On Tuesday former
MDC finance minister Tendai Biti and ZESN, the main domestic election monitor,
said one in five polling stations — more than 2,000 in all — had not physically
posted tallies on their doors, as required by law,” reported Spotlight Zimbabwe.
“Biti said the
omission left room for the electoral commission, which ZESN and the opposition
have accused of bias, to manipulate the results in favour of Mnangagwa and
Zanu-PF.”
Like it or not, the
failure to hold free, fair and credible elections and the violent street
protest have all confirmed one thing – that Zimbabwe is still a pariah state
ruled by thugs with a panache for rigging elections. No one, absolutely no one,
is going to invest is the country because investors do not do business with
thugs. They do not trust thugs!
By condemning these
elections, the international elections will be doing the long suffering people
of Zimbabwe a great favour; give the nation hope by providing a way out of this
mess.
If the elections are
condemn then Zanu PF will have no legitimacy to form the next government. This
will open the door for the appointment of an interim administration that will
implement the democratic reforms designed to dismantle the de facto one-party
dictatorship and strip Zanu PF of all its carte blanche powers to rig
elections.
2 comments:
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has issued a message of condolence to families of the victims of yesterday's shooting which occurred in Harare's central business district and left 3 people dead and several others injured.
What a hypocrite!
Here is the man whose thirst for causing heart-breaking human suffering and shedding innocent blood is unquenchable. He has been a key player in this de facto one party dictatorship that has caused untold human misery and the death of over 30 000 Zimbabweans. He is the one behind the treasonous outrage of rigging these elections the consequences of which are condemning this nation to the economic chaos Zanu PF has brought on the nation and the political instability of which these street protests are only the beginning.
If President Mnangagwa really care about the ordinary people then he would know that the greatest thing he and his junta can do the nation now is for them to step down and allow the nation to rebuild from the ruins they left!
@ kid
How naive, so you are fooled by the crocodile tears. ED and Zanu PF have murdered over 30 000 innocent Zimbabweans, how many of those has the regime even acknowledged it killed much less shed a drop of crocodile tears.
The big issue here is the rigged elections and the stage managed street protests are a diversion!
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