The Movement for Democratic Change has accused Home Affairs Minister Ignatius Chombo and the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front of being in denial by blaming opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai for inciting the present unrest in the country instead of recognising that this is a genuine cry from the citizens.
Zimbabwe has been rocked by protests from citizens, some calling for President Robert Mugabe to step down and others calling for comprehensive electoral reforms in the run-up to the 2018 elections.
Chombo, his Defence counterpart Sydney Sekeramayi, Intelligence minister Kembo Mohadi and Mugabe have blamed Western countries for fuelling the unrest and accused opposition parties and civic organisations of being puppets of the West.
“Chombo’s misplaced utterances are typical of the ZANU-PF regime’s culture of denialism of the deepening political and socio-economic crisis that the regime has created through decades of economic mismanagement, looting of State resources ,rampant corruption and misgovernance,” MDC-T spokesman Obert Gutu said.
“When Chombo and his fellow ZANU-PF corrupt elites were involved in the unrestrained and unmitigated looting of state coffers and other public resources, they should have known better that the down-trodden and oppressed citizens of Zimbabwe would one day rightfully demand their share of the national cake.
“The MDC is completely unfazed by such ill-conceived and unreasonable utterances by corrupt ruling party politicians in the mould of Ignatious Chombo. Instead, we call upon Chombo and his coterie of corrupt and failed ZANU-PF regime apologists to listen to the people and immediately address pressing national issues such as the deepening socio-economic crisis where millions of young Zimbabweans are facing a bleak future of joblessness and hopelessness.”
The MDC-T said the people of Zimbabwe were not fools. “They know, who, exactly, is behind their suffering and daily life of strife,” it said.
Full statement:
Thursday, 25 August 2016
MDC calls Ignatius Chombo to order
The MDC takes great exception to the Minister of Home Affairs, Ignatious Chombo’s reckless, ill – conceived and careless statement, apportioning blame of the ongoing citizen protest to President Morgan Tsvangirai.
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