Zanu PF selectively applying lockdown regulations

THE ruling Zanu PF is selectively dishing out COVID-19 lockdown exemption letters while other citizens are arrested for returning to their offices having been blocked from accessing them.

Look how Zanu PF takes the people of Zimbabwe for granted through selective application of the law!

According to the governmentcontrolled newspaper, The Herald of June 10, 2020, a Zanu PF meeting held in Chinhoyi “provided all the members with exemption letters for use during the lockdown”.

Earlier, The Herald of April 13, 2020 quoted State Security minister Owen Ncube warning members of Parliament and councillors against issuing exemption letters to people during the COVID-19-induced lockdown, saying it was tantamount to flouting the regulations.

According to the position outlined by government, exemption letters should only be issued by the police and district development co-ordinators upon request by persons who have a serious need to travel, but because as Zanu PF officials always preach, they control the army, the police, the courts and everything else, so they can break whatever rules are in place and get away with it.

Zanu PF can award contracts to friends and relatives of the senior officials without following due process.

Zanu PF officials can issue exemption letters for people to travel as they wish during the lockdown, while MDC Alliance officials are arrested for going to work at their offices.

This selective application of the law and regulations stinks, and is the reason why Zimbabwe finds itself in the situation.

Do we have a government in Zimbabwe? To everyone who is Zanu PF, aren’t you ashamed to belong to a party that wilfully violates government regulations, while it goes out of its way to accept the illegal, unconstitutional recall of MDC Alliance parliamentarians?

The world is watching. God is watching!

Kennedy