Cabinet reshuffle a ploy by Zanu PF to steal 2018 elections

MDC spokesperson Kurauone Chiwayi has said President Robert Mugabe's new cabinet is a strategic approach to plan on how they should rig the elections as he has appointed a Central Intelligence Organisation boss to the Justice Ministry.

"The MDC notes with trepidation President Mugabe's cabinet reshuffling and new appointments. It is clear that far from being appointed or reassigned to address the many problems affecting the country these appointments were specifically put in place to try and steal the election for Zanu PF come 2018 through hook or crook," he said.

"The sinister motives of the so called reshuffle is evidenced by the appointment of CIO boss Major .... Bonyongwe into the Justice Ministry, which by one stroke has  reduced the courts and other vital public institutions into CIO projects. Additionally, the creation of a whole new bogus ministry, the Ministry of  Cyber Security, Threat detection and Mitigation whose sole purpose is to clamp down on free flow of information on social media signals a whole new level of desperation by the President Mugabe."

"We are failing to fathom the logic behind the creation of this ministry when already there is an ICT ministry which runs POTRAZ that regulates internet usage and postal communication flows."

He said it is clear that social media has sent panic waves in the Zanu PF camp after the realisation that their discredited state media is no longer the only game in town, and suffering Zimbabweans have found alternative platforms where they can freely express their views and mobilise against President Mugabe' misrule.

"It is clear that very soon we will begin to hear from this bogus ministry of more draconian laws enacted for the specific purpose of intimidating and  silencing the masses," he said.

"The MDC finds the creation of this ministry as absurd  especially as it comes at a time when we are running up to elections and citizens are supposed to be free to disseminate information and mobilise in in the spirit of democracy."

He said what is sad also sad to note is that the newly appointed ministers are set to receive new top of the range vehicles and other high maintanance pecks in ministerial privileges which is self evidently a plot to bring Mugabe's close cronies  into the looting wagon given the uncertainty of the outcome of the 2018 election for the failed ruling party.

"The MDC would hence like to call upon every Zimbabwean to take heed of the call to register to vote ahead of the 2018 elections and remove from power President Mugabe and his incompetent lot in Zanu PF," he said.