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Mutsvangwa divides Masvingo war vets
17 Mar 2016 at 05:57hrs | Views
THE Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association provincial leadership in Masvingo has dismissed the alleged vote of no confidence in their leader Tendeukai Chinooneka as a nullity and expressed full confidence in the leadership of national chairperson, Chris Mutsvangwa.
The association lashed out at a group of war veterans from the province led by ex-war veterans Masvingo provincial chair, Isaiah Muzenda, for claiming to have passed the no-confidence vote in Chinooneka's leadership when they had no locus standi to do so.
Speaking during an emergency meeting attended by over 50 Masvingo war veterans provincial and district executive leaders that was held at the Chiefs' Hall yesterday, the ex-freedom fighters said Mutsvangwa remained their national chairperson, saying those calling for him to step down were "divisionists" and power hungry people bent on weakening the war veterans association and eventually the ruling Zanu-PF party.
The move by the war veterans association in Masvingo followed claims made by a group of war veterans from the province led by Muzenda, who told The Chronicle on Tuesday that they had passed a vote of no-confidence in Chinooneka and wanted Mutsvangwa to step down.
The group said Mutsvangwa was supposed to step down for aligning himself with ousted former war veterans' leader Jabulani Sibanda while Chinooneka was accused of allegedly participating in an unsanctioned meeting meant to demonstrate against President Mugabe in Harare.
However, Chinooneka rubbished Mutsvangwa's ouster as a nullity saying leaders were not elected and removed from office through newspapers.
Chinooneka, who was flanked by his secretary general Benjamin Nyaweda and political commissar Silas Ndlovu, said Muzenda and his team had no right to pass the vote of no confidence as they were not members of the provincial executive.
"I don't know most of the guys who passed the so-called vote of no confidence. People cannot just mushroom from nowhere and say they have passed a vote of no confidence on someone.
"That's nonsense. We don't know them, and they have never attended even a single war veterans' meeting," he said.
The association lashed out at a group of war veterans from the province led by ex-war veterans Masvingo provincial chair, Isaiah Muzenda, for claiming to have passed the no-confidence vote in Chinooneka's leadership when they had no locus standi to do so.
Speaking during an emergency meeting attended by over 50 Masvingo war veterans provincial and district executive leaders that was held at the Chiefs' Hall yesterday, the ex-freedom fighters said Mutsvangwa remained their national chairperson, saying those calling for him to step down were "divisionists" and power hungry people bent on weakening the war veterans association and eventually the ruling Zanu-PF party.
The move by the war veterans association in Masvingo followed claims made by a group of war veterans from the province led by Muzenda, who told The Chronicle on Tuesday that they had passed a vote of no-confidence in Chinooneka and wanted Mutsvangwa to step down.
However, Chinooneka rubbished Mutsvangwa's ouster as a nullity saying leaders were not elected and removed from office through newspapers.
Chinooneka, who was flanked by his secretary general Benjamin Nyaweda and political commissar Silas Ndlovu, said Muzenda and his team had no right to pass the vote of no confidence as they were not members of the provincial executive.
"I don't know most of the guys who passed the so-called vote of no confidence. People cannot just mushroom from nowhere and say they have passed a vote of no confidence on someone.
"That's nonsense. We don't know them, and they have never attended even a single war veterans' meeting," he said.
Source - chronicle
