MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday said Zimbabwe
was facing an implosion due to a multi-layered crisis and only a “transitional
mechanism” can rescue the country.
Chamisa told The Standard in an exclusive interview that
President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government had run out of ideas to address the
many problems facing the country.
“We are in a disaster,” he said. “There is no income, no
foreign investments, no jobs, nothing and it is a tinderbox, it is an
explosion, everything is going southward.
“The centre can no longer hold. More than eight million
people are facing starvation and this situation does not require a
business-as-usual approach.”
Chamisa said Zimbabwe’s problems could only be addressed
when all citizens are involved in finding solutions.
“We need a transitional mechanism to soft-land the crisis,”
he said. “We need nation building and consensus to extricate
ourselves out of this problem in the country.
“With service delivery collapse, economic collapse,
corruption flourishing, human rights abuses on the increase, victimisation of
lawyers, attacks on human rights defenders, attacks on journalists, diplomats
and non-governmental organisations, everyone seems to be under attack.
“It’s a state that seems to be in a difficult position and
they are seeing enemies everywhere.”
Security chiefs last week claimed there were rumours that
some people were plotting a coup against Mnangagwa.
Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe, who addressed a
press conference flanked by army, police and intelligence bosses, accused former
Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere and MDC Alliance vice-chairperson
Job Sikhala of being behind the “rumour-mongering”.
Chamisa said the transitional mechanism must be a “creature
of a national consensus and a comprehensive settlement anchored on reforms”.
“That’s what is going to save this country and the sooner
we achieve that the better,” he said. “The country cannot proceed like this;
the environment is too toxic, let us detoxify our environment.
“We must have a legitimate state, not a contested state. Organs
of the state must be out of partisan politics. They must not be deployed for
partisan acts.
“We now have a culpable state.”
Mnangagwa is accused of launching a crackdown against his
opponents to entrench his power at a time the economic crisis in the country is
deepening. Standard
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