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IN response to ED ally clinches epassport deal, NGUBOYENJA says: What we see in this country surely wears a hat. The regime has no shame. It has gone into overdrive to loot everything in this country. I saw Informatio­n permanent secretary Ndavaningi Mangwana trying to mollycoddl­e the e-passports-CBZ Bank deal, which stinks of everything wrong in this country. It’s wrong for President Emmerson Mnangagwa to continue handpickin­g his friends to award them lucrative deals. On the one hand, I am inclined to believe that it’s his friends benefiting, but on the other, I get this thought that those getting these lucrative deals are merely proxies.

IN response to Govt suspends physical meetings, MANGWANDI says: Government should have first suspended schools, and announced that only examinatio­n classes were supposed to continue going to school. Now it has seen that the COVID-19 Omicron variant is fast spreading, the bureaucrat­s first protect themselves by suspending physical meetings, and government activities by 30%. What about learners who have been exposed for too long?

IN response to ‘Free, fair election impossible under military rule’, MPONGOLWAN­E says: We may write forests of words and oceans of ink, but the military will never ever let go of its strangleho­ld on power. It can only let someone rule as long as that person protects its interests. So free and fair elections will never be possible in Zimbabwe. That is the reason we saw a coup in Zimbabwe in November 2017, because the military bosses felt the late former President Robert Mugabe had lost control of the country. If the current leader, President Emmerson Mnangagwa stops protecting the interests of the military, he, too, will be toppled.

IN response to Zanu PF disowns Uzumba ‘rebels’, MLALAZI says: It’s funny how Zanu PF is shelling out land to the Chinese and chastises everyone who is displaced and abused by the Chinese. This problem has gone on for too long and it seems we are fast becoming a colony of the Chinese.

IN response to COVID-19 shuts

down Zec offices, MZWANGENDA­BA says: Whether because of the COVID-19 pandemic or not, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has always had its offices closed. It has shut down access to all other parties, save for Zanu PF. That leaked memo showed us that it takes instructio­ns from the “powers-that-be”, which in this case is Zanu PF and its leaders.

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