AU, SADC lobbied to topple Mugabe

Opposition People's Democratic Party Youth Assembly has through a petition today sent to all African  Union countries  lobbied the organisations for support to get rid of President Robert Mugabe.

Mugabe aged 92, the petition said he was only obsessed with "power retention, nepotism, looting, corruption and outright theft".

Mugabe has already been picked by his Zanu PF party to stand as their preferred 2018 election candidate.

 The petition was copied to SADC head of states, AU executive council and its peace and Security Council.

Below is the full petition seen by Bulawayo24.com


A NATIONAL TRANSITIONAL AUTHORITY (NTA) IS THE ONLY WAY TO SAVE THE ZIMBABWE THAT ROBERT MUGABE AND HIS CRONIES HAVE RUINED
 
Concerned citizens of Zimbabwe hereby implore the African community to support the call for the stepping aside of Robert Mugabe and his coterie of looters, and allow a National Transitional Authority to run the country in their stead.

Robert Mugabe and his ZANU PF are the source of Zimbabwe's problems. The same people and structures which created the problems of Zimbabwe cannot and will not be adequate or able to solve them.

The current government has committed the following political, socio-economic and human rights atrocities:

Robert Mugabe and ZANU PF have failed to run the Zimbabwean Government

Robert Mugabe and ZANU PF's only obsession is power retention, nepotism, looting, corruption and outright theft

Robert Mugabe and ZANU PF have directed the economy of Zimbabwe to its ruinous and total collapse which is imminent

Robert Mugabe and his ZANU PF have stolen the resources of this country, as we speak, at their own conservative admission, USD15 Billion disappeared, for all we know, the amount is 10 times what they state.

The retrogressive Robert Mugabe and his ZANU PF want to continue to steal from the citizens through the introduction of the illegal bond notes.

Robert Mugabe and his ZANU PF have robbed a whole generation of young people of a future, as currently more than 90% of the youth population is unemployed and is struggling in the ZANU PF controlled informal sector

Robert Mugabe, his ZANU PF and what has illegally become his judiciary, police force and military forces, have caused enough brutality and exercised too much violence against the innocent citizens of Zimbabwe.

The people of Zimbabwe are tired of suffering.

The people of Zimbabwe deserve to exercise their freedoms of assembly, association and speech

The people of Zimbabwe deserve adequate social service delivery which includes access to education and healthcare

The people of Zimbabwe deserve servant leaders who will seek to put the needs and interests of the people before their own.

We call for the setting up of a National Transitional Authority in Zimbabwe which will seek to begin to resolve the problems created by Robert Mugabe and his looters by doing the following:

Reviving the economy
Begin to attract investment
Create employment

Revive industry
Aligning Zimbabwean law to the constitution which has been ignored by the ZANU PF regime for the past three and a half years. Archaic and unconstitutional laws like POSA and AIPPA must be repealed

Social Service delivery Enhancement

Beginning the process of National Healing and Reconciliation

Creating an environment for free and fair elections, among them the opening up of media space, disbanding of ZEC and creation of a new independent body, the creation of a new bio-metric voter's roll

Beginning the process of genuine international re-engagement

Genuine economic empowerment of the youth, women and other vulnerable groups

We hope the African community will support the people of Zimbabwe in this noble cause.

Zimbabweans are ready to fix Zimbabwe because indeed another Zimbabwe is possible.

For and on behalf of the suffering citizens of Zimbabwe

Moses Manyengavana
People's Democratic Party Youth Assembly President