MDC-Alliance abandons deceased member

VILLAGERS in Maboleni, Lower Gweru are up in arms with MDC Alliance after the party’s Ward Four Councillor Edward Jani’s allegedly wife ran over a member of the youth assembly after he fell off a moving lorry while coming from a party rally before dumping him at Gweru Provincial Hospital where he later died.

It is understood that MDC Alliance spokesman Professor Welshman Ncube had a rally in Vungu constituency in Lower Gweru on Sunday last week and the now deceased Maxwell Moyo Masukume was part of the security personnel in charge of refreshments.

Maxwell’s uncle, Mr Coming Moyo said after the rally, MDC Alliance supporters who include the now deceased boarded a lorry belonging to Cllr Jani which was being driven by his wife and were ferried back to their respective villages.

Mr Moyo said while on their way, Maxwell allegedly fell off the moving lorry and was subsequently run over.

He alleged that Mrs Jani took Maxwell to Gweru provincial hospital where they left him without informing the relatives.

“What happened is that my nephew was a member of the MDC Alliance and was for long been working

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The commission finds itself falsely being accused of doing things improperly. But in most cases those that are laying the accusations are ignorant of the legal provisions guiding the operations of the commission and it is very unfortunate,” said Dr Moyo.

He said the commission had fulfilled commitment in developing a credible voters roll.

“The commission took it upon itself to have a voter’s roll that would carry proper identification particulars of the voter. We have 5,6 million Zimbabweans who have been registered under the biometric voter registration system and we want to make it clear that there are no duplicates. Some news publications have been making claims of this. Some made a claim of 250 000 ghost voters and I want to make it clear that those claims are malicious, misleading and this is indicative of a lack of professionalism in some media houses. People may have the same name and that we cannot run away from but they don’t have similar IDs and fingerprints. The next issue is about sharing a similar address. We need to look at where this thing started. You will understand that we wanted people

its as a member of the party’s security department. On the day in question, he went to Maboleni where he attended a rally addressed by Prof Ncube of MDC Alliance. On his way back he fell off a moving truck being driven by Mrs Jani. They took him to hospital but never informed us. We only told the following day in the evening that Maxwell had died,” he said.

Mr Moyo said MDC Alliance offered to foot the burial expenses and went to a funeral parlour where they made an undertaking of paying $900 which was required to dress and ferry the body to their rural home. He said the party later backtracked and refused to pay resulting in Maxwell spending five days in the mortuary. The MDC Alliance only helped the family with a bucket of mealie meal and fives heads of cabbage.

MDC-T Midlands provincial spokesperson Munyaradzi Mutandavari confirmed that one of their members died in an accident on Sunday last week and was buried yesterday. He also confirmed that there was a misunderstanding between the owners of the vehicle where he fell off from and the family of the deceased.

Zanu-PF aspiring National Assembly representative for Vungu Cde Omega Sibanda had to chip in and assist at the funeral. He bought an assortment of groceries. Maxwell’s brother Wisdom thanked Cde Sibanda for the assistance.

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who wanted to register to bring proof of residence but people said we wanted to rig.

“In the interest of inclusivity we allowed people to register by means of an affidavit signed by councillors and other authoritative people. Now we have a situation where we have people appearing on similar addresses and it is now the commission’s fault. We should take it as a collective responsibility as Zimbabweans born out of a desire to open up space for all stakeholders.

“The commission designed its ballot and chose its printers in terms of the provision but because there was so much bickering the commission decided to take stakeholders to the printers to see. Some had been making claims that the ballot was being printed elsewhere. We wanted to satisfy them and assure them that it is done here in Zimbabwe. We made sure they saw and witnessed the process,” said Dr Moyo.

He said there were no requirements in terms of the law to allow political parties to be involved in Zec’s primary business, saying inviting parties to witness the process was civil and meant to avoid unnecessary conflicts. (See also Page 11)