By Talent Gondo| Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister, retired Lieutenant-General Sibusiso Busi Moyo has revealed that while the Zimbabwean government is setting up the modalities to ensure that it’s citizens living abroad vote in the forthcoming plebiscite, government had no capacity to allow for diaspora vote this year.

Moyo said this while speaking to Bloomberg TV in New York, where the minister is attending the Commonwealth Heads of State Summit.

“The Constitution allows them to do so but for now, we are still working on the logistics, we are still incapacitated to make sure all Zimbabweans in the capitals of the world are able to vote,” said Moyo in an interview.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa is on record calling on all those in the diaspora to come back home and vote arguing that Zimbabwe does not have the capacity to facilitate and implement the diaspora vote.

This is despite that the Constitution guarantees and allows for those in the diaspora to participate in the country’s democratic processes including voting.