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MDC-T want Mugabe impeached
08 Jan 2016 at 06:36hrs | Views
The MDC-T has come out guns blazing, condemning the ruling party for its violent crushing of recent peaceful demonstrations around the country.
It also once again called on Mugabe, currently on his annual break overseas, to come back home to attend to the myriad challenges confronting the country, or else "resign in shame".
"The MDC would like to call upon Robert Mugabe to cut short his undeserved State-funded holiday and to immediately come back so that he can personally take control of the collapsing national economy.
"The country is on virtual auto-pilot as the nonagenarian is living it up in the Far East. How insensitive and selfish can a president be?
"The MDC would also like to take this opportunity to call upon all parliamentarians, across the political divide, to put their heads together when Parliament resumes sitting within the next few weeks.
"It is abundantly clear that President Robert Mugabe has abdicated his responsibilities as the Head of State and as such, Parliament should proceed to impeach him," MDC spokesperson Obert Gutu said.
He said the violence that was continuing to erupt around the country was a reflection that the nonagenarian was now "out of his wits' end and no longer fit to rule".
"He doesn't deserve to continue exercising the duties and functions of our State President. We call upon Mugabe to call it a day and retreat to Gushungo Estates in Mazowe where he can spend time admiring his huge herd of dairy cows.
"Zimbabweans have suffered for too long under the Zanu-PF dictatorship that is fronted by president Mugabe.
"The chains of servitude now have to be unlocked. 2016 should be the Year of The People's Liberation," Gutu said.
He added that Zimbabwe had now allegedly degenerated into a police state, with demonstrations against the deteriorating socio-economic conditions presently obtaining in the country outlawed.
"Typical of all dictatorial and fascist regimes, the Zanu-PF government is determined to use brute force and violence in order to unconstitutionally stop Zimbabweans from exercising their constitutional right to stage peaceful demonstrations, "he said.
With Zimbabwe continuing on its precipitous decline that is widely blamed on Mugabe and Zanu-PF — and which is now manifested by a stone-broke State that can't pay its workers, as well as rising poverty levels in the country — analysts warn of looming civil strife in 2016.
The analysts have said Zimbabwe is by all indications teetering on the brink of total collapse, a situation that they claim is spawning worsening citizen despondency which could lead to growing opposition to Mugabe's and Zanu-PF's 36 years in power.
It also once again called on Mugabe, currently on his annual break overseas, to come back home to attend to the myriad challenges confronting the country, or else "resign in shame".
"The MDC would like to call upon Robert Mugabe to cut short his undeserved State-funded holiday and to immediately come back so that he can personally take control of the collapsing national economy.
"The country is on virtual auto-pilot as the nonagenarian is living it up in the Far East. How insensitive and selfish can a president be?
"The MDC would also like to take this opportunity to call upon all parliamentarians, across the political divide, to put their heads together when Parliament resumes sitting within the next few weeks.
"It is abundantly clear that President Robert Mugabe has abdicated his responsibilities as the Head of State and as such, Parliament should proceed to impeach him," MDC spokesperson Obert Gutu said.
He said the violence that was continuing to erupt around the country was a reflection that the nonagenarian was now "out of his wits' end and no longer fit to rule".
"Zimbabweans have suffered for too long under the Zanu-PF dictatorship that is fronted by president Mugabe.
"The chains of servitude now have to be unlocked. 2016 should be the Year of The People's Liberation," Gutu said.
He added that Zimbabwe had now allegedly degenerated into a police state, with demonstrations against the deteriorating socio-economic conditions presently obtaining in the country outlawed.
"Typical of all dictatorial and fascist regimes, the Zanu-PF government is determined to use brute force and violence in order to unconstitutionally stop Zimbabweans from exercising their constitutional right to stage peaceful demonstrations, "he said.
With Zimbabwe continuing on its precipitous decline that is widely blamed on Mugabe and Zanu-PF — and which is now manifested by a stone-broke State that can't pay its workers, as well as rising poverty levels in the country — analysts warn of looming civil strife in 2016.
The analysts have said Zimbabwe is by all indications teetering on the brink of total collapse, a situation that they claim is spawning worsening citizen despondency which could lead to growing opposition to Mugabe's and Zanu-PF's 36 years in power.
Source - dailynews
