Rudo Saungweme
Government has warned members of the opposition who are threatening the legitimate public authorities in Zimbabwe saying that it is a serious crime.
Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting services, Honourable Nick Mangwana has said this in a press statement today.
“Government has noted with disgust insurgent rants from a member of the opposition threatening the legitimate public authorities in Zimbabwe. The illegal undermining of a legitimate authority is a serious crime.
“Trying to overthrow a government is subversive and Government will not hesitate to deploy the security institutions to constrain such abuse of democratic tenets and maintain the constitutional order,” he said.
Minister Mangwana said that the Government would not hesitate to enforce the law to the culprits because every country has a law.
“For every country under the sun has places for miscreants and we would not hesitate to make use of them to protect democracy and constitutionalism values which are highly esteemed in the New Dispensation,” he said.
Mr Mangwana added that Zimbabwe is a peaceful country and that peace is not accidental. He said that the peace needed to be maintained by ensuring those that threaten democracy and the liberal values adopted by the New Dispensation are tried, and if convicted, removed from society and be thrown in places which is most appropriate for them.
Mr Mangwana has issued the statement following members of the opposition who had planned to provoke the Government at a time the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Honourable Sibusiso Moyo is meeting the British Foreign Minister, Jeremy Hunt.
“We do not rule out a deliberate effort to provoke the authorities in enforcing the law so as to get negative international attention at the time when the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Honourable Sibusiso Moyo, is meeting the British Foreign Minister, Jeremy Hunt, as well as the Secretary General of the Commonwealth, Baroness Scotland to advance Zimbabwe`s Re-engagement and mainstreaming efforts,” he said.
