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RG’s office cause chaotic situations at voter registration
centres
Movement
for Democratic Change
May
08, 2013
Hundreds of
Harare residents who have besieged the voter registration centres
in Dzivaresekwa and Glen View suburbs are failing to register as
there are acute manpower shortage and delays, which have seriously
affected the process.
The move has
disenfranchised some of the residents as they cannot cope with the
long queues and standing in the sun for long periods as a result
of the chaotic situation which is being created by the officials
from the Registrar General’s Office.
At Glen View
2 Primary School, police had to be called in to quell the situation
after the residents were angered by the delays in registering voters
by RG’s officials.
The two registration
centres in Glen View and Dzivaresekwa Polyclinic are being manned
by only six officials each. Most of the people gathered at the Dzivaresekwa
Polyclinic failed to register yesterday while the team was at Dzivaresekwa
Hall and were told by the RG’s officials to come today to
the polyclinic.
But by up to
this afternoon they had not registered. On Tuesday, at the Malborough
High School in Harare, there was a highly suspicious and covert
deployment of soldiers only a few metres from the school where the
mobile voter registration centre for Harare West was taking place.
Similar chaotic
situations are reported to be taking place across the country.
The MDC is greatly
outraged at the attempts by the Registrar General's Office to rig
the upcoming
general elections in Zimbabwe through the blatant manipulation
of the ongoing voter registration exercise across the country.
The MDC position
is that the Registrar General Tobaiwa Mudede, who is notorious for
rigging elections for Zanu-PF should have nothing to do with the
mobile voter registration exercise and that as provided in the GPA
the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) should assume responsibility
for this important process.
The MDC cannot
accept a voter registration exercise designed to disenfranchise
some people in Zimbabwe. The clandestine manner in which the current
mobile voter registration process is being conducted is totally
unacceptable.
It is clear
that the current exercise cannot produce a credible voters’
roll meaning that it is incapable of resulting in a free and fair
election. MDC reiterates its position that it is ready for free
and fair elections at any time. However, no elections must be called
on the basis of the current voters roll.
We totally reject
the current voters roll as currently constituted. We demand complete
and transparent audit of the voters roll with the participation
of all the stakeholders.
Zimbabweans
are ready for a new dispensation, an era of genuine transformation
and will turn out in their numbers to register to vote despite attempts
to frustrate them. Change is nigh. No weapon designed to detract
our people shall prosper any more for the wheels of change are on
course.
The MDC continue
to call on the people of Zimbabwe to remain steadfast and vigilant
in the face of these challenges as we march towards a new Zimbabwe
which will bring real transformation to the lives of many.
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