Zanu PF national secretary for security, Lovemore Matuke
has warned that government will give jobs only to proven party supporters with
a proven track record, TellZim News can report.
Matuke was speaking at his party’s Masvingo Provincial
Coordinating Committee (PCC) meeting held at Victoria Junior primary school
last Sunday.
He lamented that Zanu PF faced another security threat in
the form of unemployment, saying the party was working towards making sure that
only its people got employed.
“We have a new security threat; when our youths are not
employed it’s a threat so we want to make sure that our people are employed.
“We were in China recently and they told us that they
needed a lot of teachers so we need to make sure that our degreed youths get
are given that opportunity. However, they have to be taught the party ideology
and those who do not want will not benefit because we have to make sure that
when they go they will serve our interests,” said Matuke, who is also the
Deputy Minister of Public Service Labour and Social Welfare.
Matuke also claimed that the MDC Alliance rigged the 2018
elections by issuing fake identity documents to people who were under the legal
age of voting.
Matuke claimed that since the Zanu PF security department
picked intelligence to that effect, the party was now doing a follow up with
the office of the registrar general.
“In 2018, thousands of young people below the age of 18
were issued with fake IDs that allowed them to register to vote. You would see
that this person is too young to vote but when you check the ID, you see that
he/she is eligible to vote
“We then did some investigations and noticed that some
people were given IDs but they are not in the registrar general’s data base,”
said Matuke. He warned against complacency in terms of voter
registration saying the opposition had intensified its voter registration
programmes for next election.
“The opposition has intensified its voter registration
programmes and most of the young people registering to vote now belong to MDC
and we should do more than them. Let’s make sure that our people are
registering as we prepare for 2023 elections,” Matuke said.
Speaking at the same event, politburo member Josaya Hungwe
claimed that the MDC used the same strategy to rig the elections in 2008.
He claimed the MDC had connived with the Masvingo
provincial registry for the issuance of fake IDs to people sympathetic to the
opposition party.
Hungwe also said they should go and investigate the recent
Zaka East election and find out where the over 1000 people who voted for the
MDC ‘came from’.
“Go to Zaka and find out the villages of the people who
voted for the opposition so that when we go to 2023, those people will be
accounted for,” said Hungwe
Zanu PF national political commissar Victor Matemadanda
warned MPs against
marginalising President Emmerson Mnangagwa in their 2023
election campaigns.
“We will need a list of people who got more votes than the
President’s and unless we are told that they have reformed, we will not allow
them to contest in 2023 election. In 2023 we are targeting five million votes
and we can get them by making sure that each one of us recruits one new voter
because last time we got 2.5 million votes,” said Matemadanda. TellZim News
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