Opinion / Columnist
No room for dilly darling with the law
16 Feb 2016 at 13:22hrs | Views
An attempt to play a romantic satire with the law saw the Zimbabwe Activists Alliance on the receiving end in the due processes of maintaining law and order in Zimbabwe. As it stands Zimbabwe, needs progressive and serious minds than trouble makers who seek relevance by exploiting every forum that presents itself.
Learning from one of the dailies, ZAA is crying foul in the incident citing that they notified the police of their intentions to demonstrate for love between government and its citizenry. It is imperative to note that, notifying the police and getting authority are two different things.
For an alliance of activists, it is crushing the glimpse of the obvious to mention that the alliance is privy to the difference between notifying and being authorized.
Without necessarily sounding like celebrating what is dubbed an unfortunate incident by the alliance, one is compelled to think their goal was achieved as far as getting attention of the media which they pray would convey the spun version to the international community.
In this case of political romance than police brutality as ZAA would have it, the lesson to Zimbabweans must be let us respect the rule of law and channel our concerns without necessarily fuelling crises in Zimbabwe.
It is unfortunate the grieved does not realise the harm and emotional terror they instilled in those that were really celebrating Valentine's Day. Witnessing running battles between the police and the political vigilantes instead of merry making couples is just but disillusionment to the expectations of the day in question.
ZAA is perhaps exaggerating the impact of their deliberate bruise with the police, citing that two of its members were admitted at Avenues clinic and where later released on the same day. Their discharge on the same day is indexical of no major injuries as they would want the rest of the world to believe.
The bottom line is let us build Zimbabwe than pile political confusion which will not bring any good for the common Zimbabwean.
Learning from one of the dailies, ZAA is crying foul in the incident citing that they notified the police of their intentions to demonstrate for love between government and its citizenry. It is imperative to note that, notifying the police and getting authority are two different things.
For an alliance of activists, it is crushing the glimpse of the obvious to mention that the alliance is privy to the difference between notifying and being authorized.
Without necessarily sounding like celebrating what is dubbed an unfortunate incident by the alliance, one is compelled to think their goal was achieved as far as getting attention of the media which they pray would convey the spun version to the international community.
In this case of political romance than police brutality as ZAA would have it, the lesson to Zimbabweans must be let us respect the rule of law and channel our concerns without necessarily fuelling crises in Zimbabwe.
It is unfortunate the grieved does not realise the harm and emotional terror they instilled in those that were really celebrating Valentine's Day. Witnessing running battles between the police and the political vigilantes instead of merry making couples is just but disillusionment to the expectations of the day in question.
ZAA is perhaps exaggerating the impact of their deliberate bruise with the police, citing that two of its members were admitted at Avenues clinic and where later released on the same day. Their discharge on the same day is indexical of no major injuries as they would want the rest of the world to believe.
The bottom line is let us build Zimbabwe than pile political confusion which will not bring any good for the common Zimbabwean.
Source - Simangaliso Ginyamatshe
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