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Opposition parties in Nigeria have called for the presidential election to be scrapped, describing it as a sham. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Labour Party said results had been manipulated, and they wanted a new election to be organised.
The past few days has seen an increase in misleading lies churned out by the state just to portray the administration as a reformist government. The state media is awash with talk of fighting corruption by the new President but the absence of diversity in the electronic media has left glaring gaps and a failure to ask critical questions.
Another coalition of opposition parties — which are offshoots of the ruling Zanu PF party — could emerge ahead of polls in 2018 to take on President Robert Mugabe, whose party is already scheming against another alliance consummated over the weekend, under the leadership of Morgan Tsvangirai.
Jacob Mafume – The temptation is to celebrate the defeat of the police officers by the army with all its mighty. This is rather a sad development , a sign of how dangerous our society has become.
Chinamasa’s midterm fiscal policy review statement of the 20th of July 2017 paints a gloomy picture of the Zimbabwean economic future, it is an insult to the aspirations of Zimbabwean and a reason why the masses must be angry.
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is racing against time to form the much-anticipated grand coalition of opposition parties ahead of a self-imposed July 31 deadline.
Jacob Mafume – A crisis of legitimacy is one that bred the multi-crises that Zimbabwe is facing today including the economic meltdown and the disappearance of government capacity to deliver social services like Health and Education.
The Tendai Biti-led People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has castigated government over its delay in converting a Constitutional Court (Con-Court) ruling on child marriages into law, over a year after the judgment was handed down.
Jacob Mafume – ZANU PF has worryingly displayed lack of capacity to respond to the current crisis, this in effect must be the easiest of jobs. A few correct fiscal decisions made consistently in this situation will result in recovery of the economy as well as rapid economic growth coupled with rebound factors.
Jacob Mafume – The failure to uplift the Zimbabwean masses from dire poverty is an indictment on Mugabe and his whole team; we restate the point indicated in the multi sector indicators report of 2014 that poverty in Zimbabwe is directly linked to child marriages.