Staff Reporter
Opposition party, Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) is scheming to unleash violent demonstrations ahead of the 2023 Harmonised General Elections following realization of their pending and inevitable defeat.
A highly placed CCC official revealed that ZANU PF’s ongoing developmental projects have won the hearts and minds of the people.
“ZANU PF leadership is now engaging and re-engaging with countries that were once hostile to Zimbabwe. CCC has realised that the Western-imposed sanctions have forced Government to adopt home-grown solutions for the challenges that the country is facing, much to the joy of the people. This is further boosted by the fact that some Western countries such as those from the European Union bloc are warming to Zimbabwe,” said the official.
Today the US government has removed the names of 17 Zimbabweans from the illegal sanctions list signaling improved relations between the two countries. Some of the names that have been removed include Flora Buka, Ignatius Chombo, Rugare Gumbo, Andrew Langa and Jaison Machaya.
According to the official, CCC`s Mugwazo, a rural mobilisation programme, has failed leaving the opposition party with no option than to resort to chaos and violence.
The official said that CCC leaders intended to use University students to cause violence.
“ZINASU incumbent leader, Benon Ncube is now at the mercy of the CCC leaders who are trying to influence him to lure other students to cause chaos in the country,” he said.
The official further revealed that the objective of the strategy was to cause disproportionate response from security services which would lead to condemnation of Government by the West. The incident will then be used to discredit the 2023 elections results.
The official added that CCC intended to boycott the 2023 elections in the event that the security services sector intervened to curb their planned violence.
CCC is on record for instigating violence ahead of major polls. It is also known for protests even before the election results are announced so as to draw sympathy from Westerners.
In 2018, the leader of the then MDC Alliance, Nelson Chamisa disputed the election results which President Mnangagwa won with 50.8 percent to 44.3 percent. He lost his poll petition at the Constitutional Court in August 2018.
