Press statement
The Democratic Party (DP) strongly condemns a violent and provocative political statement that was issued by Augustine Chihuri in which he condemned denigrated, ridiculed and threatened leaders and supporters of political parties outside the current illegitimate and dysfunctional GNU regime in Zimbabwe.
Not very long ago, Augustine Chihuri made a public pronouncement that he was not ashamed to be a senior and active member of ZANU PF. A few years ago, the leader of his political party, Robert G. Mugabe, openly declared and boasted that his political party, ZANU PF, has many, many “earned degrees in violence”.
Augustine Chihuri has probably just “earned a professorship in violence” and that is the reason why he continues to abuse public office by turning it into an instrument of perpetrating state violence against the people of Zimbabwe.
In his violent political statement, Chihuri claims that he is a people’s policeman. Are the political parties, their leaders and supporters not in the current illegitimate dysfunctional GNU regime that Augustine Chihuri has demonized, denounced, lambasted, denigrated, ridiculed and threatened not part of the people of Zimbabwe?
Clearly, Augustine Chihuri is not a people’s policeman but a ZANU PF politician masquerading as a policeman. He is a ZANU PF policeman!
Zimbabweans have democratic rights to embark on protests, hunger strikes, boycotts, civil disobedience and mass collaboration revolutions that they can choose or adopt as avenues of democratic expression. It is not the business of a genuine policeman to give violent speeches that incite violence.
The DP warns Augustine Chihuri to stop and desist from fanning political violence in Zimbabwe, forthwith. The Democratic Party (DP) has “earned lots of degrees in peace and democracy”.
Wurayayi Zembe, President, Democratic Party (DP)
