Source: Scores of youths dump Mujuru’s NPP – DailyNews Live
Andrew Kunambura 5 September 2017
HARARE – At least 35 youths have quit Joice Mujuru’s National People’s
Party (NPP) protesting inept leadership and alleged corruption within
party ranks.
The mass resignations last week left the youth wing’s Hatfield district in
Harare with no representation.
In a stinging letter addressed to the NPP Harare provincial youth chair,
Donald Chimatira, Hatfield acting district youth chairperson Dexter
Zvirevo said the youths were hugely disappointed by the leadership of
Harare provincial main wing chairman Friday Muleya.
Muleya was elected to lead the Harare province ahead of former Zanu PF
central committee member Munyaradzi Banda at last month’s convention.
“The Harare province team, mainly main wing, has reduced the party into a
mafia group which I think I can’t defend in any campaign,” said Zvirevo in
his resignation letter, which also is highly critical of leadership
qualities of members of the main wing.
“I am allergic to corruption and as you may know, the wars we fought
against it within the party are pointless and unwinnable since the
province has an organised group of thieves from national members. It is a
well-documented fact that this is happening and with impunity,” Zvirevo
wrote.
He accused Muleya of embezzling transport money availed by the party to
assist members to travel to its inaugural convention held last month.
Muleya said: “I did not embezzle any party funds. In fact, people used
their own money to come to the conference. The party has no money at the
moment and if there was, it would be in the hands of the treasurer and not
me.”
Zvirevo also said NPP’s chances of winning next year’s general elections
were very slim.
“If all provinces of NPP are run the way Harare is, I can safely confirm
that if NPP miraculously win power, an NPP government will be worse than
Zanu PF. The party has been reduced to a union of rejects. It has all
failed politicians from other parties within its ranks which I think is
why the party is in this state,” he said before tearing into Mujuru.
“The interviews of the president herself on both radio and television are
a pointer to where we are going. Mai Mujuru had a very good name when she
joined the opposition but the name is increasingly dented day-by-day,
which I think it’s either she is surrounded by weak people or she is weak
herself or both.
“Mobilisation strategies of NPP are weak. Honestly to me, that means we
are doing something wrong or we are in a wrong party or both,” Zvirevo
said in the letter.
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