NATIONAL Constitutional Assembly (NCA) president Professor
Lovemore Madhuku has slammed MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa for calling
for protests while not participating in them.
Mr Chamisa has been urging his party supporters to
participate in protests that have previously led to the loss of life and
property.
Prof Madhuku said in the fight for the country’s democracy,
Mr Chamisa was beneath him and some of the founding MDC leaders including the
late party president Morgan Tsvangirai who led from the front.
He was speaking during a Political Actors Dialogue (Polad)
media briefing at a Bulawayo hotel on Friday where the political players also
criticised the MDC Alliance and its allies for calling for illegal sanctions.
“Chamisa is not in our league, we led the demonstrations,
we led the struggle for democratisation here at the most dangerous phase of the
development of our country. You can’t go around saying we have to do what
Chamisa is doing, he has not led a single demonstration as far as I know,” said
Prof Madhuku.
He said calling for demonstrations was totally different
from leading the protests.
Prof Madhuku recalled how together with the late Tsvangirai
they were bashed in 2007 under the administration of the late President Robert
Mugabe.
He said the same cannot be said about Mr Chamisa who is enjoying
the foundation they laid back in the day.
Meanwhile, Polad has slammed non-progressive opposition
elements who want to use people’s suffering for political expediency and
personal gain.
Polad spokesperson Mr Khaliphani Phugeni said while they
want the best for the nation, some individuals were busy promoting divisions.
“We understand the opposition to this noble idea by ‘the
lone voices in the wilderness’ because their political programme depends on the
suffering of the people of Zimbabwe which in turn is good fodder for them to
agitate for civil unrest, create an environment of lawlessness and mayhem and
use the general public as human shields in their running battles with security
services.
“They then use those images to scapegoat “reforms” in
justifying the retention of the devastating sanctions against our country,”
said Mr Phugeni. He said some of them are always seen at international
platforms calling for illegal sanctions.
“While other political players have elected to travel to
Europe and Washington persuading investors not to invest in Zimbabwe and also
advocate for the imposition of crippling sanctions against our people, we at
Polad have decided to sit around the table and dialogue as Zimbabweans on the
best way forward for our country,” Mr Phugeni said. Chronicle
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