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People's Constitution irreversible - MDC

by Ndou Paul
27 Feb 2012 at 11:45hrs | Views
The MDC said it believes that the people of Zimbabwe retain the prerogative to decide what they want to see in their Constitution, just as they were aware of what they wanted when they turned out in their millions to contribute to the first draft of this document.

It is thus, wrong for The Herald to assume the position of convener of public debate on whether the issues captured in the so-called draft are pro-Zanu-PF or not relevant to the Zimbabwean population.

Zanu-PF has, through its mouthpiece, The Herald, been trying to derail the process. Firstly they published a supposed national report in their discredited publication under the letterhead of Copac, then its element in the process once leaked the purported draft to The Herald, which once again published this and a myriad of commentaries.

The paper also published analyses just to confuse the public and discredit the process. But alas, when the general public did not raise an eyebrow, the Zanu-PF publications went further to try and confuse the people by lying that the document has 70 percent of its content changed.

MDC said it must be noted that The Herald is not qualified or authorised, neither is it mandated to publish any document purporting to be the draft. It is merely campaigning for Zanu-PF forgetting that the majority of Zimbabweans do not subscribe to the dead political party's ideologies.

The MDC said it is concerned that Zanu-PF wants to hijack the people-s constitution, which addresses the people's concerns over a few clauses they seem not to agree with. This constitution is national and future oriented in scope. It is not personalised and myopic as Zanu-PF would want it to be. Suppose every other section and clause was to be released and commented on, then Herald would run out of newsprint!

Source - Byo24News