The Tsvangirai-led Movement for Democratic Change today said the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front should stop looting State resources forthwith.
In a statement, the party said things must be made clear that the ruling party is not the government and conversely, the government is not the ruling party. These two bodies are, indeed, separate and distinct entities.
The MDC-T said Zimbabwe is in the mess it is in today because of the belief that the ruling party can plunder State resources at will as was recently said by President Robert Mugabe’s nephew Patrick Zhuwawo who said ZANU-PF will continue using State resources to fund party projects and that they will not offer any apology for doing that.
“Zimbabwe is presently in a debilitating and horrifying political and socio – economic mess as a direct result of the manner in which, over the decades, the ZANU-PF regime has ransacked and looted State resources to fund the programs of their crumbling and faction – ridden political organisation,” the MDC-T said.
“In fact, the regime has never made it a secret that it would use any means available, fair or foul, to continue to hold onto power in Zimbabwe.
“As a result, rampant corruption and brazen looting of State resources have become an integral component of the ZANU-PF political DNA. Up until such a time that the ZANU-PF regime respects and upholds the Constitution of Zimbabwe, we shall continue to experience the erosion of the sacrosanct principles of constitutionality and constitutionalism.”
Full statement:
Thursday, 20 October 2016
Zanu PF plunders state resources
Over the years, the Zanu PF regime has always illegally and unconstitutionally conflated the relationship between Zanu PF as a political party and the State or government. Because Zanu PF is basically a commandist and totalitarian quasi – political and militarised organisation, they have never, ever appreciated that a political party, even if it happens to be the ruling party, is not the same as a government. Put alternatively, the ruling party is not the government and conversely, the government is not the ruling party. In a modern constitutional democracy, these two bodies are indeed, separate and distinct entities.
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