OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday
accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of abusing State institutions to push his
party into dialogue, pleading with Sadc and the international community to
stand in solidarity with the "oppressed people of Zimbabwe".
Chamisa said Mnangagwa was using the courts, Parliament,
the army and police to silence and decimate the MDC Alliance by sponsoring some
elements within the opposition movement as a way of pushing for a one-party
State.
"Sadc must always seek solidarity with oppressed
citizens," he said.
"No single country problem is that country's problem
alone. A sneezing Zimbabwe will make the entire region catch a cold. A
Zimbabwean problem, a Zambian problem, a Malawian problem ceases to be a single
country's problem," he said.
"Institutions of the State like the courts, the army,
independent commissions must be professional and independent to ensure economic
prosperity and political stability.
"We are where we are because of disputed elections.
Two years on, we have not resolved political questions."
On the fights among opposition political parties that have
seen MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe recalling his 13 legislators, Chamisa in an
interview with eNCA, a South African television station, said: "What is
clear is that MPs from the MDC Alliance have not been fired or recalled from
Parliament by MDC-T.
"They have been recalled by Zanu-PF, by Mnangagwa
together with the Speaker of Parliament (Advocate Jacob Mudenda) conniving to
entrench authoritarianism, a one-party State and trying to reverse the will of
the people in 2018, trying to take away what they had taken away when they
rigged the election."
He added: "Khupe got 45 000 in terms of votes. We
participated and got 2,6 million and what Mnangagwa is trying to do is to
conflate the two, so that he confuses it, and forces us to be part of what he
wants through the Political Actors Dialogue.
"So we have said, we have nothing to do with that,
what we want is clear dialogue that will address the fundamental issues of the
day."
Chamisa said the MDC Alliance and the MDC-T were two
distinct political parties that could not be joined, that could not be confused
and belong separately and participated in elections separately.
Last week, Zanu-PF acting spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa
said the MDC Alliance must stop accusing the ruling party of meddling in
opposition "murky" affairs, saying they should, instead, blame
themselves and the late former founding leader Morgan Tsvangirai.
Congratulating newly-elected Malawian President Lazarus
Chakwera, Chamisa said the neighbouring country now had a God-fearing leader,
adding that Zimbabwe's State apparatus must learn better and stand with the
will of the people.
"Malawi has a God-fearing man. He is a Godly man, a
caring man and that makes a difference. When you fear God, you care for his
people," he said. Newsday
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