Christopher Makaza and Rudo Saungweme
Clueless MDC-Alliance principal and leader of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, Tendai Biti, has once again revealed that they are responsible for economic sanctions bedevilling the nation.
Addressing PDP members at a National Working Committee meeting held last week in the capital to announce their intention to join and transform MDC Alliance into a fully-fledged political party, Biti claimed that leaders of MDC Alliance had successfully convinced some unnamed European countries and United States to stop all investment deals with the government of Zimbabwe, adding that the Alliance leaders would engage Britain since it appeared to be entertaining the new President Emmerson Mnangagwa`s administration.
Towards 30 July elections, Biti once boasted that he would make the country ungovernable if the MDC-Alliance presidential candidate, Nelson Chamisa, did not win the polls. He went further to threaten that he, together with other Alliance senior members, would make sure the international community did not support the country’s development efforts.
“The international community is not going to be fooled by this madness. We will make sure they don’t get a cent. I can’t tell you how, but I can tell you we have done it before,” he said.
On the issue of engaging Britain over allegations of supporting the new dispensation, members of the MDC Alliance leaders once claimed that former UK envoy, Catriona Laing had endorsed President Mnangagwa by wearing his trademark scarf at Downing Street earlier this year and that she failed to condemn President Mnangagwa’s police crackdown on protests against his administration.
Sanctions have wreaked untold suffering on Zimbabwean masses through lack of balance of payment support, withdrawal of lines of credit for international trade, confiscation of large sums of money belonging to parastatals by the United Sates Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and general capital flight. The MDC continues to use sanctions as a tool to persuade the Zimbabwean electorate to subvert against the Government and ruling party due to economic hardships.
