By A Correspondent- Opposition MDC Youth Assembly Secretary General Gift Ostalos Siziba has accused president Emmerson Mnangagwa of disregarding Constitutionally guaranteed freedoms and muzzling the democratic space for civilians.

In an exclusive interview with ZimEye Tuesday afternoon Siziba said:

“The government has responded by suppressing our rights. The judiciary is captured, they have failed to deliver and this is why we took our demonstration to the doors of Rotten Row magistrates court where most of our trials are being conducted.”

Siziba accused Mnangagwa’s government of stifling the democratic space for especially young people hence the protest by the youths at the magistrates court where they duct- taped their mouths as a sign to show how it had become a crime to express oneself under the “New Dispensation”.

He added:

“Our leaders in the opposition are arrested and charged over frivolous charges including treason…

I am one of those that are in court but there are no state witnesses to testify in court to date. At one time, the witness was said to be attending to some personal family function before they were said to be attending a ritual process. The next time i appeared at court, the witness was said to have been involved in an accident….

…The fact is that we have become slaves of an incompetent justice delivery system. We are however prepared to surrender ourselves before our freedoms are taken away from us.”