Government values citizen's rights

Human rights are the basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are considered entitled to. These rights include right to education, shelter, food, freedom of expression and movement among others.

 It is disgraceful that some human rights and civil society groups have a propensity of accusing government over baseless accusations on human rights. Since independence, government has been working flat out to remove all repressive laws that were enacted in favour of former colonialists.

This was done as a way of empowering the black majority at the expense of the few white minorities who were benefitting from our own resources.

Any government that protects human rights is accountable to its citizen's security. Zimbabwean government is one of them. Protection of citizen's rights strengthens international peace and security, thereby enjoying a shared prosperity with other stable democratic countries around the world.

However, it is disheartening to note that Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) has been asserting that there is a shrinking democracy in Zimbabwe. Truth be said, this is untrue. Democracy prevails in Zimbabwe. Before the nation attained its independence, some streets like First Street in Harare, were no go areas for black people. Presently Zimbabweans have freedom of movement. Any person can move from one point to the other freely.

Zimbabwean government extremely maintains the rights of citizens. The recent demonstration by opposition party, MDC-T depicts that there is indeed democracy in Zimbabwe. Opposition parties are free to hold either public rallies or demonstrations without any interference. However, these demonstrations are at times prohibited as they end up into violence which will cause damage of infrastructure.

Zimbabwe is a peace loving country. Hence, the laws that were enacted by Government were passed as a way of maintaining the existing peace within the country. For instance, Public Order and Security Act (POSA) was enacted as a measure of dealing with those that are obsessed of public violence. Violent extremists should not be given the space to meddle with the citizen's right of association.

It is known that ZPP is a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) claiming and boasting to be a champion of human rights  and  watchdog of citizen's rights whilst in actual fact its singing for its supper. There is indeed nothing to monitor here as government is always supporting and keeping the rights of its citizens. Unfortunately, ZPP wants to be seen doing something by their funders hence foolishly condemning government of failing to uphold citizen's rights.

Strong nations will always value the rights of its citizens. In actual fact, they support and empower their citizens rather than blocking their way. This is typical with the Zimbabwean government which is a government of the people, by the people and for the people. Following that, one cannot deny that the government considers the interests of the people and value their rights.

After government realized that its people were suffering in their own land, it decided to empower them through the land reform programme. The launch of the land redistribution programme was done as a way of increasing food production through empowering the black majority populace. There wasn't any haphazard in land distribution as ZPP feels. Land was fairly distributed that most Zimbabweans benefitted from the programme.

Also, ZPP wrongly believes that government is accountable for the abductions of people. Government is actually concerned and worried about the reports of missing people. People are being kidnapped now and then. That is why the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has a section which deals with missing persons.     
As stipulated by the Constitution of Zimbabwe, general elections are held after every five years. All Zimbabwean citizens who qualify to vote are given the opportunity to exercise their right of electing a leader of their choice through the ballot box.

Zimbabwe is one of the countries which respect the freedom of worship. Unlike in other nations where people are coerced to worship certain religions, Zimbabwe values the right to practice whatever religion one chooses.

Ever since Zimbabwe attained its independence, the government has been valuing and maintaining all these citizen's rights.