Zanu PF plan to reverse parliamentary majority by jailing MDC MPs
The MDC has unearthed a plot by the Attorney General’s office and members of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) to secure convictions against MDC MPs in a bid to reverse the MDC majority in Parliament.
Deputy Attorney General, Johannes Tomana is leading the plot in which the Zanu PF regime is planning to secure convictions and lay more trumped-up charges against MDC MPs to reverse our majority in Parliament.
This week five MDC MPs were arrested in Harare during the opening of the 7th Parliament of Zimbabwe.
Four of them, Pearson Mungofa, the MP for Highfield East, Eliah Jembere, Epworth; Bednock Nyaude, Bindura South and Trevor Saruwaka, Mutasa Central are still in police custody. They were denied bail.
Hon Nyaude was granted bail by a Bindura magistrate but the State has appealed.
Via an MDC Press Release.
August 30th, 2008 19:47
It is obviously Mugabe who has violated the rules of the negotiations for a unity government. He probably had no choice, because it is the JOC who has been pulling the political strings, and whose members have said publicly that they would not allow the MDC to take power.
The MDC should appeal to as many African countries who will listen to them. There will never be agreement between Tsvangirai and Mugabe about how to divide power while Mugabe’s party does not believe in the democratic right of the people to decide.
If only it could be proved that Tsvangirai won a clear victory of over 50% on March 29th.
Surely five months of another Mugabe rule will completely cripple the country, let alone five more years? It doesn’t bear thinking about. One thing is for sure, when Mugabe and his cronies are eventually toppled, there will be no amnesty for them now.
August 30th, 2008 22:02
Are we surprised?? I’m not.
This is pure Mugabe and his cohorts. I’ve said before that the good people of Zim will have to suffer a little longer until Mbeki is a thing of the past and the whole of Southern Africa gets behind the beliefs of Ian Khama. The likes of the accepted murderer ( 5 brigade ) Perence Shiri remain behind Mugabe and until an international stand is made against these vicious thugs don’t expect anything to change.
Tsvangirai certainly did win over 50%, True Grit, but that won’t change anything either. There are many reports which have been quashed over the past 28 years which will make very interesting reading in times to come. Until the thugs are out of office the truth will never be known. It needn’t be 5 months let alone 5 years but left to Mbeki it would be even longer. I apologise, in saying this, to President Mbeki’s brother; a man who speaks wonderful common sense.
Good luck Zimbabwe.
August 31st, 2008 00:21
I always try to have a glimmer of hope that maybe things are starting to change around for the better but at the same time I leave a bit of room for disappointment because one thing that Mugabe does not know how to do it play fair. He will and always stoop very low to make sure that things go in his favour even though if it is clear to people that something is amiss.
Frustration, frustration is what I feel when Mugabe continues to try to make fools out of the people of Zimbabwe.
September 2nd, 2008 15:20
Someone once said Mobutu had turned kleptocracy, murder and deceit into an art.
Mugabe has taken a step further, making it a science. Obviously with the aid of the likes of Mbeki and other like minded African heads of state.
He has even suggested bullying neighbouring Botswana. For speaking against his evil axis. He must be glad that the Zambian president has passed away.
Frustration indeed, because the world sees and seems to follow some outrageous rule which qualifies them to ignore the plight of ordinary peace loving Zimbabweans.
We rest assured that the lord will never give us more than we can bear. The time will soon come when change will happen.
If Obama, a black man, can do it in America why not a fellow Zimbabwean in Zimbabwe.