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'Mnangagwa more violent than Mugabe' says top lawyer
23 Nov 2018 at 14:46hrs | Views
Top Human Rights lawyer Dr. Pedzisai Ruhanya has described President Emmerson Mnangagwa as a violent person who unleashes savage attacks at women.
Ruhanya was commenting on the incident that happened on Thursday at parliament building where police forcibly ejected MDC MPs from parliament leaving two of them hospitalised.
"Mugabe was booed several times in Parliament but there were never such savage attacks especially against women. Ruhanya said. So, please let us not lie that this is a new dispensation. Let us not mislead ourselves that Mugabe was the violent one. The agents of violence and its system are in charge." Ruhanya said.
"Violence will not give Mnangagwa the political legitimacy he so desperately wants. In fact, it delegitimises his leadership big time. The barbaric attacks against MDC MPs show that it was not Mugabe alone who was violent but the system and its critical agents that took over militarily."
On Thursday MDC MPs refused to stand up when President Mnangagwa walked into parliament in a protest that he is an illegitimate President.
When they remained seated, police officers were then brought into the chamber to forcibly remove them one by one, resulting in the opposition MPs being roughed up in the full glare of visitors who had come to listen to the budget statement, who included United Nations Development Programme country representative Bishow Parajuli.
Female MPs were handled very badly by the police officers as they forcibly pulled them out of the House, with some unfortunate situations to the extent that their skirts were pulled up, resulting in their undergarments being exposed.
The violent scuffles continued for about 30 minutes, as the opposition MPs resisted the violent ejection, and Mnangagwa and his two deputies, Kembo Mohadi and Constantino Chiwenga, who were present in the House, just sat stone-faced and watched as the opposition legislators, females included, were roughed up.
Ruhanya was commenting on the incident that happened on Thursday at parliament building where police forcibly ejected MDC MPs from parliament leaving two of them hospitalised.
"Mugabe was booed several times in Parliament but there were never such savage attacks especially against women. Ruhanya said. So, please let us not lie that this is a new dispensation. Let us not mislead ourselves that Mugabe was the violent one. The agents of violence and its system are in charge." Ruhanya said.
"Violence will not give Mnangagwa the political legitimacy he so desperately wants. In fact, it delegitimises his leadership big time. The barbaric attacks against MDC MPs show that it was not Mugabe alone who was violent but the system and its critical agents that took over militarily."
On Thursday MDC MPs refused to stand up when President Mnangagwa walked into parliament in a protest that he is an illegitimate President.
When they remained seated, police officers were then brought into the chamber to forcibly remove them one by one, resulting in the opposition MPs being roughed up in the full glare of visitors who had come to listen to the budget statement, who included United Nations Development Programme country representative Bishow Parajuli.
Female MPs were handled very badly by the police officers as they forcibly pulled them out of the House, with some unfortunate situations to the extent that their skirts were pulled up, resulting in their undergarments being exposed.
The violent scuffles continued for about 30 minutes, as the opposition MPs resisted the violent ejection, and Mnangagwa and his two deputies, Kembo Mohadi and Constantino Chiwenga, who were present in the House, just sat stone-faced and watched as the opposition legislators, females included, were roughed up.
Source - Byo24News
