By HON. Happymore Chidziva| Revolutionary greetings to you my fellow Comrades, friends, brothers and sisters,from all corners of the United Kingdom.
It is a great honour for me to stand before you with a responsibility to speak on the affairs of our great nation Zimbabwe. This is an important occasion because it is a fervent belief that the correct Zimbabwean story must be told now, tomorrow and forever. For long the world has fallen victim of lies peddled by the ZANU-PF party in their quest to legitimize the illegitimate presidency of Mnangagwa.
As you all know, we held elections in July where Zimbabweans overwhelmingly voted for President Nelson Chamisa. It’s on record that Mnangagwa was rejected by the people of Zimbabwe, but regrettably the unthinkable happened. Instead of the people’s Will and vote be respected, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) as usual went on to subvert that vote by declaring a loser as the winner. Ever since that day the nation is stuck in the murky waters of a deep and unending crisis.
It is against this background that I am here to briefly explain the situation in a bid to save the people of Zimbabwe from the unbearable suffering they are enduring.
• Let the vote count:
Zimbabweans voted in their numbers on July 30, they made a choice that Adv. Nelson Chamisa is their President. That was an undiluted stament on the direction they want our country to take. The people’s will must be respected because we can’t be a nation that votes for the sake of voting and not respect the outcome of the same vote.
• The legitimate remains legitimate and the illegitimate remains illegitimate:
The mandate to lead is derived from the people, the electorate, hence the reason why we have mandatory elections after every five years. We did exactly that, people voted for President Chamisa not Mnangagwa. Legitimacy comes from the people hence we say #LetThePeopleLead and people led by voting for their preferred president, who is Adv Nelson Chamisa.
• We expect a results not a bullets:
When people cast their votes like what we did in July, we expect nothing short of election results. Instead Mnangagwa unleashed military hardwares and live bullets on unarmed civilians for asking for the results of their vote.
• Caring leadership
Brutal and uncaring government is not what people voted for. When people became anxious and in fear of the repeat of the 2008 theft, the military saw it fit to despatch bullets and several lives were lost. Such are characteristics of a careless leadership which has no respect for human life.
• Ailing economy:
After stealing the people’s victory and sanitizing it through a bogus constitutional court, the ED led administration has failed to manage the economy. Inflation shot up and prices are skyrocketing each passing day. Cash and other essential commodities are running dry leaving people to struggle.
A look into these issues shows us that we have a government that is deliberately subduing and killing it’s people, either by live bullets or bad economics perpetuating the breeding of poverty. This is the the genocide we are confronted with, the genocide we need to stop.
All these challenges we are facing are a product of an illegitimate leadership that is in power through unscrupulous means. However, these challenges have a solution and the solution is the return to legitimacy. We need to return to legitimacy and everything else will fall into…
How do we return to legitimacy?
By respecting the people’s wishes as truely reflected on 30th of July 2018 election. ZEC should declare the actual winner of the 2018 elections and the legitimacy crisis that has been haunting our country will come to a lasting solution.