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Playground
for torturers
Wilf Mbanga
June 09, 2011
We heard with
shocked disbelief how MPs from the two formations of the MDC were
brow-beaten into supporting the borrowing of money from the Chinese
to pay for a Zanu (PF) project.
Like Heroes
Acre, the Mazowe Spy Centre, is not a national institution. It is
a Zanu (PF) project. No-one from the two MDCs, or any of their supporters,
will benefit from it in any way.
Students at
the centre will be taught to spy on and torture MDC supporters.
We believe that
the ratification of the Chinese loan to pay for a Zanu (PF) training
camp, while mortgaging our national
resources from Chiadzwa for many years to come, was a terrible
blunder by the Members of Parliament
in whom the people of Zimbabwe had reposed their confidence.
The excuse given
by the MDC that they "had to vote in support of the loan because
we are now in government" is simply absurd. The nation expects
our MPs to think for themselves and not behave like sheep.
Our MPs should
have revolted on this issue. Zimbabwe does not need such an expensive
spy centre at a time when there are other pressing priorities. The
revenue from Chiadzwa should be used to develop our country and
pay the civil servants who are grossly underpaid.
Zimbabwe cannot
even service its existing debt - which is a millstone around
the necks of future generations. And now they sign up for even more
debt, to build a luxurious playground for the torturers of MDC supporters!
We are disappointed
that the MPs of both MDCs have failed to rise to the occasion, not
only in this case, but also in using their numerical superiority
over the past two years to push progressive legislation through
Parliament.
It is ridiculous
that the legislature should continue to be sent into recess or recalled
at the whim of the minority party - Zanu (PF). Our MPs have
even allowed Zanu (PF) to set the agenda.
The same goes
for the constitution-writing process. It appears Zanu (PF) has the
upper hand. What we have seen and heard from COPAC does not inspire
confidence or give us any reason for optimism.
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