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MDC shouldn-t hold their march
Edward Shumba
January 22, 2008

As I am writing this, I am worried that the MDC defiantly chooses to go ahead with a demonstration tomorrow to demand the implementation of constitutional agreements they reached with Zanu PF.

The ZRP and in fact the Joint Operation Command has hinted its heavy presence tomorrow as the opposition march from Harare gardens in their so called 'freedom march-.

As a Zimbabwean I feel disturbed by the fact that this march will result in an unnecessary crackdown on innocent lives that are blindly following ill advised party ideologies.

The MDC should grow beyond selfish concerns and become a party of the people lest it falls in the same prey of Zanu PF.

1) Secrecy
The draft constitution which they will be marching for was drafted by four people on behalf of the country, namely Welshman Ncube sometimes described as a CIO agent, Tendai Biti tipped to succeed Tsvangirai and two bogus politicians from Zanu PF.

• this deserves a strict mention because in any democratic country a constitution should be authored by the masses and not few 'intellectuals or technocrats-.
• as long as it is written by the intellects it remains an academic paper and not the supreme law of the land.
• what is more disturbing is that some of those people who will join the march tomorrow don-t even know the contents of that draft constitution so the march is there to appeal for media attention and nothing more.

2) Morals
The constitution is morally corrupt as it failed to respect proper channels when writing a public document. The MDC by accepting to be dragged through a garden path by Zanu Pf proved to be corrupt itself.

In 1999 people of Zimbabwe denied the constitution which had been written by Zanu PF thugs in secret what makes the current one better.

3) History
Judging with the recent past, the MDC betrayed Zimbabweans by singing into Act the much criticized 18th amendments a result of secret negotiations between Zanu PF and MDC. What can Zimbabweans have faith in the 19th amendment, which seeks to amend the whole constitution.

As an independent individual who believes have a stake in Zimbabwe do refuse to be dictated my future, or future protocols of my land by few people who are nearing a sunset of their lifespan.

As an independent Zimbabwean I urge fellow countrymen to be cautious when joining demonstrations whose real agent is privy to politicians alone.

I therefore demand that the MDC stops its march scheduled for tomorrow and start demanding for a people driven and democratic constitution which is all inclusive and until then the MDC should relax and save their bodies from Robert Mugabe-s wrath.

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