MDC vice-chairman Job Sikhala has threatened to initiate
constitutional processes to push out President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government
from power.
Speaking in an interview to be aired on Alpha Media
Holdings (AMH)’s Heart and Soul TV on Tuesday, Sikhala said the economic
turmoil and deteriorating social and political space in Zimbabwe could not be
allowed to continue.
AMH are publishers of NewsDay, Zimbabwe Independent, The
Standard in addition to an online radio/television station, Heart and Soul
Television.
“I will not rest until justice and a people’s government is
put in place. I will never rest until Zanu PF is extinguished from the face of
the earth,” said Sikhala who was last week acquitted on a treason charge by a
Masvingo High Court judge.
“These have been evil people, evil men and women who have
been presiding over the people of Zimbabwe. Zimbabweans have lost hundreds of
thousands of people through murder by the people who are in Zanu PF,” Sikhala
said.
“Zanu PF has killed so many people in our country that we
cannot allow this regime to continue existing anymore. This is a regime where I
call upon every Zimbabwean of normal circumstances to join us in fighting,” he
said.
The opposition MDC has repeatedly refused to recognise
Mnangagwa’s administration claiming the Zanu PF leader “stole” the 2018
elections.
He said the decision on which course of action to apply on
Mnangagwa should be collective, but he would not hesitate to call the people of
Zimbabwe to act.
“I am operating within the confines of an organisation. I
cannot be just a one-man band, so decisions have to be taken collectively, but
if I think that my own political thinking on how to deal with the situation is
continually being derailed, I will not hesitate to call the people of Zimbabwe
into action and I know they will respond and I am serious on this.”
“I am going to call the people of Zimbabwe if I see that
they are unnecessary dilatory tactics not to deal with this situation
decisively within a short period. Zimbabweans cannot afford a Zanu PF
government anymore, people are suffering, children are not able to go to
school, and parents are struggling to feed their children,” Sikhala said.
“There is no struggle anywhere else in the world where you
fight against a dictator where there has been no bloodbath. How many people
have been killed by this regime from 1980 to present not because they were
demonstrating but only because they were opposed to the government? Why were
more than 20 000 people killed during the period of Gukurahundi? Where those
people demonstrating in the streets? Why were people who voted against (the
late former President) Robert Mugabe in the year 2008 killed?
“Why are people still limping today after being tortured
just for opposing? It is better to die demonstrating than being killed while
sitting at home? Even if that body is mine, so be it,” the tough-talking
Sikhala said. Newsday
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