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MDC condemns Zanu PF’s partisan food distribution
Movement
for Democratic Change (MDC-T)
October
31, 2013
The MDC notes with serious
concern reports coming in from the country side that Zanu-PF working
with the AREX officials and the district administrators is distributing
along partisan and corrupt lines, the government grain and seed
loan schemes.
These unfortunate reports
come at a time when the people of Zimbabwe are facing severe food
shortages due to drought, high unemployment and high levels of corruption
in Zanu-PF where government agricultural inputs are looted.
Such actions
by Zanu-PF are a breach of the new Constitution,
which clearly in its Fundamental Human Rights and Freedoms, states,
that every citizen has a right to sufficient food, safe and potable
water.
As a party, the MDC is
disturbed by the hunger and food shortages stalking the people across
the country and is therefore dismayed that Zanu-PF wants to gamble
with people’s lives for political gain.
There are disturbing
reports that Zanu-PF officials, government officials and traditional
chiefs are demanding Zanu-PF membership cards from the villagers
before they receive the government food aid and agricultural inputs.
Last Saturday at Honde
Business Centre, the district administrator for Mutasa in Manicaland,
Zebedd Dhliwayo blocked all villagers with no Zanu-PF membership
cards from accessing government grain and ordered them to come to
the distribution centre in Zanu-PF regalia.
In Ward 33,
Zaka West in Masvingo, a Zanu-PF losing local council candidate
in
the last elections only identified as Magaisa and Chief Nyakunhuwa,
last Friday supervised the distribution of grain that was only accessed
by known Zanu-PF supporters.
Similar reports are coming
in from all the country’s provinces and the MDC demands that
the controversially elected Zanu-PF government must respect the
country’s Constitution and allow the lawful and unhindered
movement of food aid and agricultural inputs to all deserving citizens.
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