Opinion / Columnist
MP Cross calls for alignment of 400 Acts to new constitution - to what end and purpose!
04 May 2016 at 07:39hrs | Views
MDC MP, Eddie Cross call on the Zanu PF government to complete the task of aligning 400 existing laws with the new 2013 constitution.
"The new Constitution was adopted by a massive majority of the people of Zimbabwe and signed into law in March 2013. Three years on it would be reasonable to expect that the Government of Zimbabwe would be completing the alignment of the 400 Acts of Parliament that need adjustments to bring them into line with the Constitution," wrote the MP.
MP Cross please explain why MDC failed to draft the new constitution and align all the necessary existing laws with the new constitution so that by the time held the 2013 elections all these things would have been done and dusted. MDC had the majority in parliament and in cabinet during the GNU and five - FIVE - years to complete the task and yet failed.
Zimbabwe is not the only nation that has needed a new constitution and other nations too have had to draft a new constitution notably SA and they have never even 1% of as many problems as we have had and they drafted their new constitution is one year!
The people of Zimbabwe approved the new constitution on strength of MDC's recommendation that it would deliver all their basic freedoms and rights including the right to free and fair elections. It failed it very first acid test as it certainly failed to deliver free and fair elections in 2013.
The truth is, even if the alignment of all 400 Acts were carried out tomorrow, the people of Zimbabwe will still be denied their freedoms and rights between the new constitution is too weak and feeble to guarantee these freedoms and rights.
"Zimbabwe also needs a new constitution. It must be the genuine product of a national dialogue that embodies our hopes and aspirations, unconstrained by our fears; it must be founded on a strong Bill of Rights, and elicit the best in us," wrote Mr Trevor Ncube, Executive Chairman of Alpha Media Holdings - publishers of the NewsDay, Zimbabwe Independent and the Standard - and deputy executive chair of M&G Media in South Africa..
"The current document is the outcome of horse-trading between Zanu-PF and the two MDC factions. It fails to lay a strong foundation of the rule of law, strong national institutions, transparency and accountability. And, of course, the sanctity of life and respect for private property must find full expression."
It is deeply upsetting that MDC leaders have now taken to how the new constitution "was adopted by a massive majority of the people of Zimbabwe" as if they had absolutely nothing to do with it; the truth is the people approved this weak and feeble constitution because MDC leaders recommended it to them. At least 80% of the electorate had not even read the new constitution and digested it when they were asked to vote in the March 2013 referendum.
MDC leaders like MP Cross betrayed the people of Zimbabwe by failing to implement even one democratic reform during the GNU and then rubbed the chilli into the people's eyes by recommended a weak and feeble constitution.
It is unacceptable that these MDC leaders have yet to apologize to the good people of Zimbabwe for selling-out during the GNU. But if these sell-outs think they can now shift the blame for the weak and feeble constitution to the electorate, they better think again because it will never happen!
It is a historic fact that MDC wasted the nation's time and treasure, five years and nearly US$100 million respectively, writing a weak and feeble new constitution. And as if that was not bad enough, MDC leaders are now wasting the nation time fiddling with aligning existing laws to the feeble constitution when they should be using their presence in parliament to demand the implementation of the democratic reforms, they failed to implement during the GNU!
What has this nation done to deserve this corrupt, incompetent and sell-out MDC opposition?
People get the government they deserve and I would readily admit the nation has been naïve and gullible to deserve the corrupt and murderous Zanu PF regime. What have we done to deserve this corrupt and incompetent MDC opposition? They got their thirty pieces of silver after selling-out during the GNU - the ministerial cars, generous salaries and allowances and even a $4 million mansion for Tsvangirai - and yet they are still queuing for another chance to get back on the gravy train and sell-out the nation yet again!
MP Cross is calling for the alignment of the 400 Acts to the new constitution. Good one Mr Cross but to what end and purpose other than raising your political profile so you can get back on the gravy train in 2018!
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Source: zsdemocrats.blogspot.co.uk
"The new Constitution was adopted by a massive majority of the people of Zimbabwe and signed into law in March 2013. Three years on it would be reasonable to expect that the Government of Zimbabwe would be completing the alignment of the 400 Acts of Parliament that need adjustments to bring them into line with the Constitution," wrote the MP.
MP Cross please explain why MDC failed to draft the new constitution and align all the necessary existing laws with the new constitution so that by the time held the 2013 elections all these things would have been done and dusted. MDC had the majority in parliament and in cabinet during the GNU and five - FIVE - years to complete the task and yet failed.
Zimbabwe is not the only nation that has needed a new constitution and other nations too have had to draft a new constitution notably SA and they have never even 1% of as many problems as we have had and they drafted their new constitution is one year!
The people of Zimbabwe approved the new constitution on strength of MDC's recommendation that it would deliver all their basic freedoms and rights including the right to free and fair elections. It failed it very first acid test as it certainly failed to deliver free and fair elections in 2013.
The truth is, even if the alignment of all 400 Acts were carried out tomorrow, the people of Zimbabwe will still be denied their freedoms and rights between the new constitution is too weak and feeble to guarantee these freedoms and rights.
"Zimbabwe also needs a new constitution. It must be the genuine product of a national dialogue that embodies our hopes and aspirations, unconstrained by our fears; it must be founded on a strong Bill of Rights, and elicit the best in us," wrote Mr Trevor Ncube, Executive Chairman of Alpha Media Holdings - publishers of the NewsDay, Zimbabwe Independent and the Standard - and deputy executive chair of M&G Media in South Africa..
"The current document is the outcome of horse-trading between Zanu-PF and the two MDC factions. It fails to lay a strong foundation of the rule of law, strong national institutions, transparency and accountability. And, of course, the sanctity of life and respect for private property must find full expression."
It is deeply upsetting that MDC leaders have now taken to how the new constitution "was adopted by a massive majority of the people of Zimbabwe" as if they had absolutely nothing to do with it; the truth is the people approved this weak and feeble constitution because MDC leaders recommended it to them. At least 80% of the electorate had not even read the new constitution and digested it when they were asked to vote in the March 2013 referendum.
MDC leaders like MP Cross betrayed the people of Zimbabwe by failing to implement even one democratic reform during the GNU and then rubbed the chilli into the people's eyes by recommended a weak and feeble constitution.
It is unacceptable that these MDC leaders have yet to apologize to the good people of Zimbabwe for selling-out during the GNU. But if these sell-outs think they can now shift the blame for the weak and feeble constitution to the electorate, they better think again because it will never happen!
It is a historic fact that MDC wasted the nation's time and treasure, five years and nearly US$100 million respectively, writing a weak and feeble new constitution. And as if that was not bad enough, MDC leaders are now wasting the nation time fiddling with aligning existing laws to the feeble constitution when they should be using their presence in parliament to demand the implementation of the democratic reforms, they failed to implement during the GNU!
What has this nation done to deserve this corrupt, incompetent and sell-out MDC opposition?
People get the government they deserve and I would readily admit the nation has been naïve and gullible to deserve the corrupt and murderous Zanu PF regime. What have we done to deserve this corrupt and incompetent MDC opposition? They got their thirty pieces of silver after selling-out during the GNU - the ministerial cars, generous salaries and allowances and even a $4 million mansion for Tsvangirai - and yet they are still queuing for another chance to get back on the gravy train and sell-out the nation yet again!
MP Cross is calling for the alignment of the 400 Acts to the new constitution. Good one Mr Cross but to what end and purpose other than raising your political profile so you can get back on the gravy train in 2018!
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Source: zsdemocrats.blogspot.co.uk
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