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(TALKZIMBABWE) MDC-T factional feuding intensifies

MDC-T factional feuding intensifies
Posted by By Our reporter at 5 July, at 18 : 19 PM

FACTIONAL feuding has reached alarming levels between Tendai Biti and Morgan Tsvangirai factions in the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T).

The party is faced by another acute blow of split soon if sanity is not restored urgently by the vacillating leadership, poised on personal aggrandizement, and amassing individual wealth at the expense of the party.

This scenario was visibly evidenced at a Mashonaland East Provincial Executive Assembly held at Harvest House the party’s headquarters, in Harare recently. It was attended by thirty-five (35) members drawn from twelve (12) out of the nineteen (19) District Assemblies.

Piniel Denga, the Provincial Assembly Chairperson, presided over the meeting which discussed the intra-party violence that characterized the party’s national congress which was held in April 2011, in Bulawayo.

In his address, Denga lambasted Ian Kay, the former Mashonaland East Provincial treasurer, for the intra-party violence during the party’s national congress in Bulawayo.

He claimed that youths loyal to Kay triggered violence by assaulting Ethridge Kuziva, the Provincial Youth Assembly Chairperson.

Denga further accused Kay of being power hungry as evidenced by his reluctance to recognize the current Provincial Assembly. He is also accused of mobilizing party members in the province to pass a vote of no confidence against the Denga-led executive.

Owing to the recalcitrant Kay’s intolerance, the meeting resolved to write a forceful letter of complaint to the national executive over Kay’s devilish activities in the province.

Meanwhile, as a counter-measure, Ian Kay faction held a meeting at Number 19 Cherutombo Street, Dombotombo in Marondera owned by Chengetai Murova, the MDC-T Marondera District Assembly Chairperson Kay chaired the meeting which was attended by sixteen (16) people mainly former Provincial Executive members.

The meeting was in pursuit of the faction’s objective to form a parallel Provincial Executive to advance its cause.

Kay warned followers against leaking information to the Denga-led Provincial Assembly.

He urged them to attend the faction’s meeting at his residence in Harare on 29 June to discuss strategies to co-ordinate its agenda for the nineteen (19) party District Assemblies in the province.

The meeting also resolved to write a letter to Nelson Chamisa, the National Organising Secretary, disapproving the manner in which the 10 April 2011 Mashonaland East Provincial congress was held.

The meeting also heard that Obert Nhire, a Harare-based lawyer, had written a letter to Chamisa complaining over undue ill-treatment by Denga on 24 June 2011. This skirmish took place at a meeting which was held at Chigondo Business Centre in Wedza South Constituency.

Nhire was barred from declaring his candidature for the constituency on MDC-T party ticket for the forth-coming national polls.

The meeting later set up parallel provincial Coordination Team to co-ordinate the faction’s activities in the province. This is a clear-cut indicator for escalating factional hustles in the MDC-T between Tsvangirai, the President of the party and Secretary General Tendai Biti.

Denga is Tsvangirai’s loyalist while Kay belongs to the Biti camp.

MDC-T declared violence reached unprecedented levels as they are also involved in recent murders of police and army officers in Glen View and Chitungwiza respectively.

These officers faced their fate while in the line of their constitutional duties.

Labels: IAIN KAYE, MDC, MDC FACTIONS, MORGAN TSVANGIRAI, POLITICAL VIOLENCE, TENDAI BITI

posted by MrK @ 2:42 AM