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State
Security Agents on the prowl - an abdication of the Social Contract
Student
Christian Movement of Zimbabwe (SCMZ)
June 11, 2007
The Student Christian
Movement of Zimbabwe (SCMZ) has learnt that its National Vice Chairperson,
Lawrence Mashungu, has been under the surveillance of state security
agents the whole of last week. On Wednesday 6th June seven state
security agents raided his brothers' home in Rugare, Harare
in the early hours of the morning. Four of them armed to the teeth,
ransacked the whole house and harassed everyone who was there, demanding
to know the whereabouts of Lawrence. The state agents did not tell
Lawrence's brother why they were looking for him.
SCMZ is disturbed by these developments and the continued harassment
of Zimbabwean citizens fighting to restore peace and justice in
the country. Zimbabweans are now living in perpetual fear from their
own government. Repressive State action has gone on for a long time
with impunity. This unfortunate status quo can not be allowed to
prevail for long.
SCMZ believes that governments exist to protect rather than persecute
its citizens. God's desire for governments is for them to
defend the cause of the weak and fatherless, maintain the rights
of the weak and oppressed, rescue the needy and deliver them from
the hand of the wicked (Psalm 82 verses 1-4). The State cannot lightly
abdicate these obligations. They derive their authority from God,
and if they go against the Lord's wishes, they cease to be
legitimate governments.
SCMZ urges the Zimbabwean Government to revisit its social contract
with its citizens. Particularly, it should commit itself once again
to the genuine concerns of advancing social, economic and political
rights of its citizens and not sell the needy for pair of shoes.
Justice must roll like a thunderstorm in Zimbabwe, and only then,
God's purpose and destiny for Zimbabwe will be revealed, for
He knows the plans that He has for Zimbabwe, plans to build, not
to destroy, plans that will prosper Zimbabwe.
Psalms 72: 4 "May he defends the cause of the poor of the
people, give deliverance to the needy, and crush the oppressor!"
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