Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance, Namibia has described the level of police ineptitude as shocking.
On Saturday, overzealous police details violently disrupted the MDC Alliance provincial Youth Assembly Congress in Masvingo.
Below is the MDC Alliance Namibia statement on the harassment of party youths in Masvingo.
30 NOVEMBER 2020
MDC ALLIANCE NAMIBIA IS STRONGLY INFURIATED BY THE SILLY, ANTI-DEMOCRATIC ANTICS OF THE POLICE IN MASVINGO.
Mdc Alliance Namibia bears the comprehension that all industrial societies use police to control crime and contribute to public order manifesting in mediating and arbitrating disputes as well regulating traffic and helping in times of emergencies. Astonishingly, the wild and authoritarian manner that was exhibited by non-democratic pro-Zanupf police against Mdc Alliance Youth Assembly members at their party offices in Masvingo is characteristic of a hybrid dictatorship in the Motherland.
We are very frustrated in the partisan approach of all our securocrats in Zimbabwe. As an external district in the national democratic revolution, we insist that law enforcement requires a delicate balancing act.
Whilst Zanupf party is busy with its District Coordinating Committee (DCC) meetings, our political dynamo (Mdc Alliance) was denied the chance to undertake the much awaited Provincial Congress to elect each other on Saturday. The police must be reminded that Zimbabwe is not a private property of the Zanupf regime and all citizens are at par before the law. Section 2 as enshrined in the supreme law of the country stipulates that the constitution is the superior law of the land and anything generated must be consistent with the national law therefore our police must desist from from manipulating their legal mandate to use force to advance Zanupf political scores.
Moreover, as social democrats in Namibia, we are cognisant of the democratic role of our police. We demand that the police must be a central element in constitutional democracy.
Our captured police should surely subject itself to the rule of law not the rule of Zanupf fat cows. The police must be publicly accountable to any abuse of authority by political leaders and the general citizenry not excluding themselves. They should hastily undress their Zanupf political jackets to ensure that state power must be used in a restrained fashion. The police force is expected to resist being subject to a greater degree of direct political control by Zanupf belly politicians of rhetoric.
Moreso, Mdc Alliance Namibia emphasises that police are trained to see themselves as exemplars of moral behaviour. They must give a cold shoulder to individuals who want to be protected at the expense of our unemployed Youths who are degreed but wallowing in excruciating poverty. Police need to protect democratic liberties while maintaining effectiveness against crime and pandemonium as provided in the 2013 constitution. With a concoction of a One-party state, military, personalist and hybrid dictatorships it becomes apparent that when the policing of crime and politics merge, political dissent automatically generates spurious charges. We urge our vibrant Youths to resist this with equal measure.
Mdc Alliance Namibia advocates for democratic policing. The police in Zimbabwe must respect our constitutional democratic rights to join,assemble, support and express our feelings and thoughts in a purported free country. We are clamouring for an objective police who are allergic to using police power and covert surveillance to advance a dictatorial regime and its rotten, stinking political and social practises. Social democrats in Namibia seriously demand democratic policing that seeks to avert the extremes of either anarchy and gross crackdown on the voices of dissent. We are absolutely exhausted to see our democratic space shrinking every now and then. It’s time for our Youths to embrace participatory democracy through dangerous freedom because it’s the only panacea to socio-economic transformation.
Unless our police consider the existence of an open democratic society which values the dignity of our beleaguered Youths and the general populace , they shall remain an anomaly in the motherland. Lets remain focused on our #OneMillionCompaign. After the ugly and horrible Saturday in Masvingo, we shall remain convinced that our police resembles a police state which is desperately punctuated by the rule anchored on professionalised and captured police as a Zanupf institution.
In a nutshell, Mdc Alliance Namibia encourages all social democrats led by vibrant Youth Assembly to use all their organs to resist this extreme form of dictatorship composed of atomised , isolated and greedy belly politicians. We shall continue saying NO TOLERANCE to any form dictatorship in Zimbabwe. Activists in the national democratic revolution should subscribe to such governance where the supremacy belongs to the population and rulers are freely , fairly and credibly elected through tightly contested elections.
We shall soldier on with our fight against absolute power that is concentrated in the dirty hands of rapacious dictators, a small clique which aims to abolish political pluralism and civilian mobilisation backed by the compromised police force. Our youths shall lead us in confronting the maintenance of ill-gotten power by Zanupf Satanists.
FreeOurMayor
JacobMafumeIsInnocent
CorruptionMustGo
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ZanupfMustGo
PoliceMustBehave
Mdc Alliance Namibia
Rundu Branch Spokesperson
Robson Ruhanya
