Youths are being used as condoms - Lumumba

Former Zanu PF Youth leader and Viva Chairperson Acie Lumumba booted other political parties saying they are using the young people as condoms for their own political achievements.

In an interview with Vimbai of the Ten Minutes with Vimbai program said there is no political party in Zimbabwe currently that has a clear agenda for the young people.

‘If we don't save ourselves no one will and if young people don't stand to the plate we will remain political condoms…. they take us, use us for their personal pleasure and throw us out of the window….'

Generally Zimbabwe's political sphere has been dominated by old people and efforts to facilitate the involvement of young people in decision-making process and facilitate a smooth transition of the country's old ways of doing things ‘I don't know what Tsvangirai's message for the young people is ………. I don't know what Mujuru's message for the young people is, I don't think they even listen to our ideas or care about them. They call for rallies for them to talk to us not us to talk back……..so at which point will we be relevant to that political sphere. I don't know any political party that is focused on the ideas of the young people'

As we are now living in the world that everything has been modernised and technology based we cannot afford to have a country which is run in a primitive way. Even the bible says in Mark 2:22 that ‘And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined, No they pour new wine into new wineskins." this scripture exactly depicts Zimbabwe' situation where we have ruined our destinies by entrusting our great country in the hands of the old guard.

I remember there is one interview in the UK where Minister Chinamasa acknowledged that he is computer illiterate and that he implored young people to sell technological ideas to the ancient leaders like him.

We as young people cannot afford to be led by technologically blind leaders in this era. To backward people technology for example social media is a threat rather than an advantage to the smooth flow of information and empowerment to authors of such computer programs.

Advocating for youth participation in the voting system Acie Lumumba said there is 4.2 million virgin voters and these people are youths but are afraid of making it to the ballot box. He emphasised on the fact that young people need awareness on the voter's registration and participation.