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Chaos
at the launch of constitutional outreach
Crisis
in Zimbabwe Coalition
June 18, 2010
It is a common norm that
in the military that when ever soldiers go to war they get instructions
particularly from the commander. This gives them clear understanding
of the task at hand and prepares them for duty. But this was not
the case with Constitution select Committee (COPAC) launch of the
outreach meetings.
On Wednesday
the 16th of June 2010, the constitution making process was launched
at Harare International Conference Centre (HICC). However, to the
surprise of all present, the outreach teams who are to be deployed
to various parts of the country were not part of the invited guests
save for members of parliament. Other invited guests included business
people, diplomats and non-governmental organizations. Initially
the outreach teams were supposed to be addressed by the principals
of the GPA before
their deployment but that did not come to pass. Instead, some members
of the teams were turned away from the launch by state agents under
the instruction of the COPAC personnel.
In yet another display
of disorder, a meeting convened by COPAC yesterday the 17th of June
2010 at the Parliament ended without substantive agreements on key
issues such as coming up with a concrete schedule of activities.
The meeting was characterized by a lot of disagreements, which resulted
in many of those who attended walking out of the meeting. After
the meeting, the select committee was scheduled to hold a press
conference but due to disagreements among delegates, the press conference
was cancelled.
According to a COPAC
official, the disagreements stem from the accreditation of teams
and transport arrangements, which the select committee is failing
to solve amicably. This is in turn has pushed further the deployment
of outreach teams to Monday the 21st of June with the public consultation
phase commencing on Wednesday the 23rd of June according to a reliable
source.
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