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Zim needs fresh, able leadership: Bhebhe

- BY NIZBERT MOYO Follow Nizbert on Twitter @N.M

FORMER MDC-T national organising secretary Abednico Bhebhe has said the country should break from the past and commit to the future generation­s by ending Zanu PF hold on power.

Bhebhe told in an interview yesterdayt­hat the country now needed a fresh and able leadership without dictatoria­l tendencies which will uphold the rule of law.

The MDC-T is planning to hold an extraordin­ary congress next month as mandated by the Supreme Court to deal with the leadership question.

“We now have to boldly proclaim that it is time to break from the past and commit to future generation­s,” he said, adding that

Zimbabwe required a fresh leadership without suspicious ties to dictatorsh­ip.

“My advice to Zimbabwean­s is that they should persuade their relatives and friends who still believe there is hope that Zanu PF can fix what it has taken 40 years to destroy to back down from that stance.”

Bhebhe said the nation should never imagine that with the current level of corruption, violence, non-respect of the rule of law and poor governance Zanu PF has the future of the country in their plans.

The former organising secretary said human rights abuses, illegal detentions, torture and suspension of all forms of rights have all attracted the attention of the internatio­nal world indicating that the world has responded by imposing targeted sanctions on the regime.

He added that still the regime was poised to inflict more pain to the ordinary Zimbabwean­s.

Bhebhe said the opposition lacked strategies to minimise infiltrati­on by the regime, which he said was detrimenta­l to the struggle for democracy in their 20 years of existence.

Recently, the opposition party held Bulawayo provincial elections for presidenti­al nomination­s, where Bhebhe reportedly secured Bulawayo nomination­s after trouncing four other candidates, among them acting president Thokozani Khupe and interim secretary Douglas Mwonzora.

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