via President Mugabe’s birthday Bash: A case of misplaced priorities – Youth Forum 19 February 2015
According to media reports Zanu PF is in the process of raising the sum of US$1 million for the birthday of President Robert Mugabe scheduled to take place at Elephant Hills Hotel, Victoria Falls on February 28, 2015.
Youth Forum National Chairperson, Simbai Chivasa said the scheduled lavish celebrations were a sign of misguided priorities by Zanu PF government.
“The current state of affairs in the country is deplorable. Electricity and water crises, among other problems, and I am beginning to doubt if Zanu PF is really concerned about our problems,” Chivasa said.
He said: “Millions of dollars are being used to please the Mugabe family instead of helping the needy and unemployed youth”.
Chiredzi Youth Forum Chairperson Marko Shoko said the proposed lavish birthday party was evidence that President Mugabe and his party were selfish and insensitive to the plight of Zimbabweans.
“While more than 80 percent of Zimbabweans are living in poverty , Zanu PF is preparing for the lavish bash to celebrate their leader’s 91st birthday,” Shoko said.
“The money that has been collected to bankroll the birthday celebration must instead be channeled towards rehabilitating the collapsed public hospitals, clinics and rural schools ” Shoko said.
Surprisingly, Norman Tigere a Zanu PF activist from Chitungwiza said the birthday celebrations are being held to honour Mugabe for empowering Zimbabweans and it suits his towering status.
“This is a birthday celebration by the youths to the president as their liberation icon and the money being spent befits his status,” Tigere said.
President Mugabe’s lavish birthday celebrations will take place when independent economists say Zimbabwe’s unemployment rate is at over 80% with over 300 000 students every year joining millions already unemployed.
Experts have blamed the high unemployment rate on unfriendly policies adopted by President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF administration over the years.
The Indigenisation law, first promulgated in 2007, is cited as one of the most investor unfriendly policies
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