Terrence Mawawa

Prominent social media analyst Antony Taruvinga yesterday said the dismissal of former MDC vice president Thokozani Khupe was constitutional and legal.

“The MDC-T Constitution as amended by the 2014
Congress gave the president the powers to fire and
hire members of the National Standing Committee.

Khupe was there when the amendment was made.

That amendment was used by Dr. Morgan Tsvangirai
with the support of the National Council to appoint
Nelson Chamisa and Elias Mudzuri as VPs,” said Taruvinga.

“The National Council has wide powers to
make major and far reaching decisions in between
Congresses.

Those decisions start to operate as
soon as they are made but they need ratification or
nullification by Congress.

In short, National Council
can act on behalf of Congress or can sit as
Congress and make binding decisions.

So, the appointment of Chamisa and Mudzuri as VPs
was done in accordance with the dictates of the
Constitution.”

” Again the appointment of Nelson
Chamisa as substantive President of the MDC-T
was done by an organ of the party with the authority
to make such decisions.

The firing of Khupe was
done in line with the Constitution because the

president in consultation with the National Council
has the powers to hire or fire.

Khupe was no longer attending party meetings and
programs. She was no longer serving the party and
National Council had to act. She only resurfaced
after catching wind of the news of the demise of Dr.
Morgan Tsvangirai and started running around with
the coffin.

She blocked Tsvangirai’s phone number
to avoid communication. Not good at all.

The 210 District Chairpersons endorsed Chamisa as
president together with the 12 Provincial
Chairpersons.

For Khupe’ s Congress to be legal, it has
to be properly constituted otherwise it’s a bogus
Congress,” added Taruvinga.