Chamisa says you don’t need Mugabe to tell you the state of the nation- you can see for yourself

What was the liberation struggle all about? The liberation struggle was about one man one vote, the sovereignty of the people, the dignity of a people, the people of Zimbabwe and that is what we want. Let us go back to the ideals of the liberation struggle. To do that, we must not repeat the mistakes of 2013, of having a disputed election. Let us not have the mistake of having disputed elections. How do we have agreed elections in this country?  There are two things Hon. Speaker Sir.

Number one – let us call for a national dialogue from all political parties and all national stakeholders. Yes, President Mugabe, President Tsvangirai and all the other presidents; let us talk about how we are going to develop our country and the national dialogue to think about the tomorrow that we want to see for our country, so that you are not alienating. This is no longer about partisan and political parties. It is about our nation and our generation and the future generation to be served. Let us come together black, white, yellow, pink, Ndebele, Tonga and Shona. Let us unite the Vendas and look forward to say, how do we build our country? We need a national dialogue.

The second issue which is my suggestion as a resolution to move forward is, let us come together and agree on the nature, character and the extent of elections we want to have in Zimbabwe. We should not have another disputed election because our crisis is a crisis of leadership. It is of governance. We do not want to destroy the legacy of the liberation war heroes who fought to liberate this country. We need to build on that legacy and how do we do that? Let us come together Hon. Speaker Sir…

THE TEMPORARYSPEAKER: Order Hon. Member. You are left with 2 minutes.

 HON. CHAMISA: Thank you. Two minutes is actually too much Hon. Speaker Sir. I am just concluding. Let us have one credible Voters Roll in this country so that we are all agreed on that as a way of resolving the State of the Nation. Number two is, let us make sure that we go biometric in voting so that we resolve all the other issues that have caused problems. Thirdly, we need to do is have a framework that is agreed upon in terms of removing all the technical people who are partisan in the conducting of ZEC as a board that manages elections.

We need to have equal access by political parties to media so that we are able to see who is saying what to the people of Zimbabwe and do away with a partisan approach in terms of the media. We need to have underwriters like SADC and the United Nations so that they are able to underwrite the elections in Zimbabwe. We agreed on that election and what do we need to do? Let us deal with people who always thrive on stealing elections and coming here without the mandate of the people. I know them and we do not want to mention them. They are not wanted in their constituencies but when they are here, they want to appear larger than life, and this is why they are not able to do anything.

Hon. Speaker Sir, we need to have free and fair elections and a truth and reconciliation programme so that we are not revenging. We are not looking at the past but we just want to say this far and no further in terms of affecting people’s rights so that we are able to unite. I want to thank you for listening and for giving me the time just to contribute. This is the State of the Nation. Thank you very much.

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