By Paul Nyathi| Under threats of election sabotage by members of the ZANU PF youth league, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been reportedly forced to reinstate three thousand members of the youth league into government payroll.
The 3 188 youths all graduates from the ZANU PF run National Youth Service training centres were put into government employment by former President Robert Mugabe in 2016 after they had complained of being unemployed.
As part of the motivation to get young Zimbabweans into the ZANU PF, indoctrinating military style youth training centres, government assured employment for the graduates leading to the youths threatening to dump the party if they remained unemployed.
The former President Robert Mugabe had during his tenure ordered the Civil Service Commission to employ the youth into various government departments where most of them were literally being paid for doing nothing.
However, in a government cost cutting measure, Mnangagwa instructed for the removal of the youth members from employment when he took office in November last year.
Latest legal details made available to ZimEye.com show that the youth have in the last 3 days engaged Mnangagwa and threatened to sabotage his election campaign unless they are reinstated on full salaries.
The letter was written on the 9th April.
The youth further took the Public Service Commission to the Labour Court on claims of unfair dismissal.
A letter from the representatives of the youth seen by to ZimEye.com indicates that the youth agreed to withdraw their matter from the courts after an agreement was reached to reinstate them.
ZANU PF has through the years been using the youth to execute their violent election campaigns earning them the notorious nickname “Green Bombers” because of their green military like uniform.
ZANU PF has in the meantime started regrouping the National Service Graduates in preparation for the campaign for the elections set for July or August this year. ZANU PF’s reportage on the matter is that the youth are mere employees and that the issue oof party allegiance is only a collusion