Correspondent|Chiefs Council President Chief Fortune Charumbira has said MDC Alliance representatives Tendai Biti and Nelson Chamisa must be banned from parliament and government allegedly for calling for inviting foreign sanctions on the country.

Speaking to local media houses in an interview, Charumbira said parliament should craft a law that punishes people who undermine the interests of Zimbabwe through calling for illegal sanctions.

The media quoted Charumbira as having said the law should also disqualify culprits of such acts from seeking political or public office as part of measures to protect its interests and that of citizens.

“Zimbabwe should seriously consider the need for a law that punishes Zimbabweans who undermine the country’s political, economic and social interests as what we read in the media as attributed to Mr Biti,” said Chief Charumbira.

“Such people should be disqualified from contesting for political office because they would have expressly shown that their ultimate mission is to seek political office through undermining the interests of Zimbabwe.”

“They are driven by individual aggrandisement in order to get power which they want to attain at all costs even at the expense of the people. We have suffered enough. In Shona we say Nyika Vanhu, who do they want to rule in future when people would have died through these ruinous sanctions,” he said.

Another Chiefs Council member, Chief Musarurwa echoed the same sentiments.

“If they had any grievances they should have engaged the new administration and not to go to a foreign land. Of what help is that to the cause of the people? Who they are purporting to be representing,” said Chief Musarurwa.