Opinion / Columnist
Mnangagwa conflating party, govt business
13 Jun 2022 at 06:46hrs | Views
ADDRESSING a Zanu-PF meeting recently, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said: "All those who don't have IDs must come together and you get their names to the councillor so they get IDs … I am saying this as the most senior member in the cell, that once you have all those who don't have IDs, tell me so that I can send a team that will give them registration here".
A few weeks ago, we read of a story in which people mobilised by Zanu-PF were getting national registration documents in the middle of the night in Masvingo.
However, there have been numerous reports that the national programme was deliberately slowing down the process, resulting in many people being turned away because the officials closed for the day before they had been attended to.
Analysts believe that the national process was being slowed down to deny people the opportunity to register and the non-Zanu-PF would be disenfranchised because they would not be registered, while the Zanu-PF members would be registered through the clandestine night registration exercises.
So the Zanu-PF supporters do not even need to present in-person to apply for registration documents, but simply hand over their details to a councillor and the whole process would be done for them.
Comrade President, this practice must stop. You are not a national leader if you orchestrate such blatant rigging shenanigans where genuine citizens who need identification documents are denied registration.
Zanu-PF supporters without national identification documents would simply submit their names to a councillor, and the next thing, they have a national identification document and they are registered voters.
Mr President, this is a disgrace.
Opposition parties and civic society should be seized with this matter.
They should alert these young people who are being registered clandestinely to vote against people behind such corrupt practices.
How can you trust a government which does not follow due process?
Corruption begets corruption. Young people must use the 2023 elections to get rid of corrupt leaders who will ruin their future.
Sadc, the African Union and the United Nations must intervene and stop such corrupt practices.
Those in Zanu-PF who care to listen should tell their leaders that they have gone overboard in their corrupt tendencies and must start behaving like national leaders.
A few weeks ago, we read of a story in which people mobilised by Zanu-PF were getting national registration documents in the middle of the night in Masvingo.
However, there have been numerous reports that the national programme was deliberately slowing down the process, resulting in many people being turned away because the officials closed for the day before they had been attended to.
Analysts believe that the national process was being slowed down to deny people the opportunity to register and the non-Zanu-PF would be disenfranchised because they would not be registered, while the Zanu-PF members would be registered through the clandestine night registration exercises.
So the Zanu-PF supporters do not even need to present in-person to apply for registration documents, but simply hand over their details to a councillor and the whole process would be done for them.
Comrade President, this practice must stop. You are not a national leader if you orchestrate such blatant rigging shenanigans where genuine citizens who need identification documents are denied registration.
Zanu-PF supporters without national identification documents would simply submit their names to a councillor, and the next thing, they have a national identification document and they are registered voters.
Mr President, this is a disgrace.
Opposition parties and civic society should be seized with this matter.
They should alert these young people who are being registered clandestinely to vote against people behind such corrupt practices.
How can you trust a government which does not follow due process?
Corruption begets corruption. Young people must use the 2023 elections to get rid of corrupt leaders who will ruin their future.
Sadc, the African Union and the United Nations must intervene and stop such corrupt practices.
Those in Zanu-PF who care to listen should tell their leaders that they have gone overboard in their corrupt tendencies and must start behaving like national leaders.
Source - NewsDay Zimbabwe
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