MDC: Taxpayers fund useless Mugabe march

Source: MDC: Taxpayers fund useless Mugabe march – NewZimbabwe  21/05/2016

THE Welshman Ncube-led MDC says Zanu PF youths should rather stage its planned million-men march to denounce President Robert Mugabe for ruining the country.

The ruling party’s youth wing will Tuesday stage a ‘one million men march’ in support of President Mugabe.

Zanu PF loyalists have already started pledging transport logistics for the planned march with Bulawayo, the country’s second largest city, having confirmed to be sending 76 buses.

But Kurauone Chihwayi, the MDC-N spokesperson, said Mugabe does not deserve to be celebrated.

“The march must be seen for what it is – a weak, directionless, pointless and desperate ploy to prop up their nonagenarian leader, President Mugabe, who has led this country to ruins,” Chihwayi said in a statement last Friday.

“The march is a waste of time and resources and should be dismissed with the contempt it deserves”.

Chihwayi said Zanu PF should, instead, use that platform to explain its economic failures to the electorate which it deceived in the last polls.

“Zanu PF would be better advised to use this march to give Zimbabweans answers to what happened to the 2.2 million jobs it promised …

“ … what government plans to do about the drought and hunger ravaging most parts of the country; the corruption cancer that is bleeding our economy dry and how on earth the soon to be introduced bond notes are going to improve the liquidity crisis,” he said.

The opposition party also said that Zanu PF youths should refuse to be used to parrot up Mugabe because he has “killed” their future.

“It is sad that the Zanu PF youth league allows itself to be used to promote a president who has failed them in every sense, preferring instead to use them as instruments of violence on his opponents.

“It is unfortunate that the right to demonstrate is being vulgarised by Zanu PF and, just like the Grace Mugabe rallies and war veterans’ indaba, the tax payer will be forced to pump up the costs for this worthless cause.

“The planned march will only bring misery to the people of Zimbabwe.”