President warns rogue Zanu-PF members

The youths said the slogan was a clear signal to some who were already whispering in the corridors that President Mnangagwa should serve a single term. The youths said President Mnangagwa should serve his two five-year terms as enshrined in the constitution.

President Mnangagwa hailed the youths for pioneering several slogans that saw the ruling party winning resoundingly in the last harmonised elections. He said it was the youths who coined the slogan ED: Pfee and #edhasmyvote.

He urged Zanu-PF members to ignore some sideshows by the opposition in particular MDCAlliance, which purportedly inaugurated Mr Nelson Chamisa as president recently.

He said in a democratic country people were free to express themselves and should be ignored as such.

Before President Mnangagwa addressed the youths, Zanu-PF secretary for youth affairs Cde Pupurai Togarepi took a swipe at some party officials criticising the Government initiated grain import substitution programme — the Command Agriculture.

Said Cde Togarepi: “We have programmes that have been successful than any other programmes. I had an opportunity of being a member of the party since 1980, the best programme ever has been Command Agriculture. It is very clean and clear and we want to protect it as youths. We are also going to be beneficiaries because the President said after downsizing, youths are going to get land. So Command Agriculture should remain in place so that when the youths get land, they succeed in their farming activities.”

The national youth assembly meeting was also attended by the party’s Second Secretary and Vice President Cde Kembo Mohadi, national chairman Cde Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri and several Politburo members who are now working as full time party employees.