By Hon Job Wiwa Sikhala, Zengeza West MP | We have been witnessing the Emmerson Mnangagwa regime’s ill treatment of Chitungwiza people of recent past that has been sealed by closing them totally out of Harare.
Covid 19 as a political weapon has been excessively applied against us, not withstanding that ZANU PF gatherings have been taking place on our sight. Recently, Mapositori where allowed to gather in their thousands without a problem and were allowed to pray despite other churches being banned from gathering in their numbers. I don’t have any problem with their gathering but am perturbed by glaring discrimination being displayed by the regime to create conflict among the people. We are more clever than that because that is exactly what the regime wants.
The regime does not love the Vapositori at all but use them for political expediency only. Understanding that, the people of Zimbabwe are no fools to play to the decoy of the regime deceit.
Pretending to be solving the Covid pandemic the regime, has advised the people of Chitungwiza not to set their foot in Harare and the CBD. The charade is purely political. Close them in their ghetto. Make them suffer and die of hunger. Continuously harass them. Get into Chitungwiza and close their businesses. Let them scream. I have personally seen several times people being harassed and tormented and have represented so many Chitungwiza businessmen and businesswomen in Court, in recent past whose crime is owning a business.
For the past 4 weeks along Seke Road, just after the St. Mary’s police Bridge both sides of the road motorists where harassed and forced to return home. Every morning up to midday a traffic jam stretching 10 kilometers was witnessed daily. From St. Mary’s police to Zuva Petroleum Service Station at Makoni. From St. Mary’s police to Chigovanyika. From St. Mary’s to Chitungwiza Municipality Headquarters. You would see anger in the people. Their question was always, what wrong have we committed to deserve this? You would see people shaking their heads in disbelief. They would always shout at me asking what wrong and sin have they committed to be punished like that?
Few days later an announcement is made that no one from Chitungwiza should be allowed into Harare. Chitungwiza is part of Harare Province. Chitungwiza does not have a city. It’s a Municipality. Dullards and dimwits from ZANU PF, waffled that because we have got our own Mayor, we are independent of Harare. They are not even aware of their regime’s pronouncement. The pronouncement is banning city to city. Not Municipality to Municipality. Chitungwiza is not a City. It does not have a city centre nor does it have a city status. Idiots from ZANU PF do not know that.
Chitungwiza is a mere dormitory town. It’s a cluster of houses and townships from Chigovanyika to Makoni. ZANU PF dullards define the small Town Centre which is an Old Mutual Shopping Mall to be a city center.
The regime must pronounce us to be an independent province so that we know and start to develop our own city from scratch. This nonsense of trying to discriminate ourselves as non Harareans is foolish and desperate. As long as we are in Harare Province we will contact our business in Harare as usual.
The silence by the people is not foolishness. Emmerson Mnangagwa’s regime is digging its own grave.
The people shall bury it in an unprecedented fashion.