Opinion / Columnist
War vets 'vigorously campaigned' for Mugabe in return for sugar cane plots
11 Jul 2014 at 12:47hrs | Views
Chiredzi war vets claim they "vigorously campaigned" for Mugabe and Zanu PF in 2013 elections in return for sugar cane plots!
A Chiredzi group of war vets told The Zimbabwean that they were ordered to campaign vigorously for Zanu (PF) and Mugabe in return for sugar cane plots. After the Mugabe election victory they invaded sugar estate belonging to Tongaat Huletta and allocated themselves plots – the njambanja modus operandi of the white farm invasion that has been going on since 2000. The war vets were therefore shocked, naturally, when they were arrested, jailed and kicked of the estate!
"We were told by the party, including even our seniors in the army, that we were going to be empow- ered through the issuance of sugar plots if we campaigned for the party and President Mugabe," said their spokesperson Ezra Muronda.
These war vets say they were ordered to campaign "vigorously" for Mugabe; what the nation would want to know is just how vigorous" their campaigns were?
Two days before the 31st July 2013 elections the number of Polling Stations was increased from 2
000 to 9 000; four and half times! Were these war vets involved in manning those ghost Polling Sta- tions?
Then there is the issue of voters who were bussed from one Polling Station to the next (or should I
say from one ghost Polling Station to the next), with each voter casting as many as 10 votes. Did their vigorous campaigning, by chance, include casting multi-votes?
As a further measure to restore public confidence in the electoral process; the ZSD will institute a thorough independent judiciary investigation to establish the full facts of the vote rigging in the 2013 elections. Those found guilty of multiple voting for example will be rewarded with the prison sugar plot and those who benefited from the vote rigging will have all their looted wealth taken away from them and serve a stiff mandatory custodial jail term.
Conclusion
Free, fair and credible elections are the foundation on which free, justice prosperous nations are built; Zimbabwe is in this chaotic mess today precisely because the nation has failed to hold free and fair elections. It is those who have rigged elections who have dragged this nation into this mess and they are therefore responsible for all the tragic human suffering, unnecessary loss of lives and the political murders that have happened these last 34 years. They must face justice.
Let it be known that rigging elections poses a serious threat to the stability and wellbeing of the whole nation and it is therefore treason against the nation. Those rig elections are committing treason and they will be punished accordingly!
Signed. Wilbert Mukori
Secretary General
Zimbabwe Social Democrats zimbabwesocialdemocrats@gmail.com
Source: http://www.thezimbabwean.co/news/zimbabwe/72452/war-vets-threaten-to-dump.html
Source - Wilbert Mukori
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