(HERALD) MDC-T stop threatening people

MDC-T stop threatening people

EDITOR — Is it a weakness or it’s actually a personality element within the MDC-T? There is a sudden upsurge of personalities in high offices having their wings "clipped", or there is always a mention that their wings (powers and authority) have been clipped.

Those with wings have to be clipped range from the security forces commanders; RBZ Governor; Attorney-General; Media, Information and Publicity Secretary; editors of public media houses.

The latest addition on the MDC-T list of personalities whose powers have to be clipped is the City of Harare chamber secretary, Mrs Josephine Ncube. To me, these actions amount to nothing but threats against the said individuals.

It is also one of the highest forms of psychological victimisation when a political party thinks that it has unfettered powers to purge people it deems are a threat to its quest to take over control of important institutions.

Why are MDC-T leaders displaying such paranoia? They might not like these people’s political affiliations, but they have to be reminded that it cost the nation to have these people educated and trained.

The experience they have accumulated over the years is an asset to the nation.

When the Finance Bill went before Parliament, the way the pro-MDC-T media went on about Dr Gideon Gono’s wings being clipped made it look like it was a Bill specifically targeted against him.

They forgot that there would always be a Reserve Bank even after Dr Gono’s tenure.

Do we then have a Parliament that wastes taxpayers’ money enacting laws, only to repeal them a few years down the line when the same Parliament has taken so long to repeal some of the laws that predate independence?

One can only conclude that this is nothing but a tactic being used to weaken these personalities so that they do not perform effectively, and when that happens, then the twist would be, "So and so is under-performing".

Please, leave people to work for Zimbabwe and the people, without these undue pressures.

Nomagugu M’simang.
Harare.