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Harassment of vendors satanic- Job Sikhala
26 Jan 2017 at 05:05hrs | Views
MDC-T Secretary for Mobilization and Recruitment Job Wiwa Sikhala has described the harassment of vendors by the Zimbabwean authorities as satanic.
He said the perpetual insensitivity to the plight facing ordinary Zimbabweans should come to a stop.
"Millions of our countrymen have been compelled into vending as the only way to generate income and feed our impoverished families. The bludgeoning and harassment of vendors today in Harare CBD is both satanic and demonic. The insensitive attacks on vendors by the police is a culmination from the recklessness directive issued a few days ago by Minister Saviour Kasukuwere," he said.
"Instead of the government to fulfill their promise of creating 2.2million new jobs, which they have dismally failed, they are busy channelling efforts towards curtailing our only means of survival. The attempt to stop vending without providing people with jobs or alternative ways of income generating programs can not go unchallenged. We demand an end to the harassment of vendors which we witnessed today."
He said the perpetual insensitivity to the plight facing ordinary Zimbabweans should come to a stop.
"Instead of the government to fulfill their promise of creating 2.2million new jobs, which they have dismally failed, they are busy channelling efforts towards curtailing our only means of survival. The attempt to stop vending without providing people with jobs or alternative ways of income generating programs can not go unchallenged. We demand an end to the harassment of vendors which we witnessed today."
Source - Byo24News
