Families of victims of the Kwekwe road disaster have been ordered to make sure that ZANU PF officials in their areas take charge of the funeral programmes in their areas as an appreciation for the government burial assistance.
President Robert Mugabe on Friday declared the accident where 30 people died and several more seriously injured, a national disaster.
The declaration means that the victims will all be given a state assistant funeral in which government will provide for coffins and other expenses.
At least four of the families that have so far managed to go through the process claim that as soon as they settled in to prepare burial arrangements, local ZANU PF officials in the company of suspected intelligence personnel ordered the families to let the ruling party take over the planning and running of the programme.
The families all say that the ZANU PF officials told them that they had not come to negotiate on the issue but to take over the funeral proceedings as the funding is coming from the party not government.
“They told us that the funeral assistance is not from government as government has no money but the money is from ZANU PF and First Lady Grace Mugabe,” said a family relative from one family.
The families claim that they had no alternative but to hand over the programme to the ZANU PF local structures to decide who should preside over the function.
At the time of going to press none of the four families had yet been able to proceed with the burial of their loved ones while they wait for ZANU PF to finalise the burial arrangements.
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Poverty is good politics in Zimbabwe some of us with funeral policies will ask them to go and hang.
Poverty is good politics in Zimbabwe some of us with funeral policies will ask them to go and hang.
Zanupf has always been doing that. This is not new. Wherever there is a group of people they force themselves there. By the way Zanupf has lost totally any sense of shame. The demon is firmly in control.
This is quiet outrageous that in such a sad incident,Zanu PF wants to politicize a government funeral program.This babaric behavior by Zanu PF makes me believe and conlude that they have deliberately destroyed the infrastructure in oder to force themselves on desperate people in times of crisis. This not only disgusting if not shameful.
This is quiet outrageous that in such a sad incident,Zanu PF wants to politicize a government funeral program.This babaric behavior by Zanu PF makes me believe and conlude that they have deliberately destroyed the infrastructure in oder to force themselves on desperate people in times of crisis. This not only disgusting if not shameful.