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Matinenga to engage security ministries

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Constitutional minister Eric Matinenga is engaging security ministries and political parties to ensure sanity in the Second All-Stakeholders’ Conference.

CONSTITUTIONAL and Parliamentary Affairs minister Eric Matinenga yesterday said he was in the process of engaging security ministries and political parties to ensure there was sanity during the Second All-Stakeholders’ Conference tentatively set for later this month.

Report by Veneranda Langa

In an interview yesterday, Matinenga said to avoid the chaos reminiscent of the First All-Stakeholders’ Conference, it was imperative for political parties to rein in their delegates.

“The responsibility for national events is a collective one and since the First All-Stakeholders’ Conference was marred by violence, I am in the process of engaging ministers responsible for security so that they provide safety during the Second All-Stakeholders’ Conference,” Matinenga said.

“Last week in the Council of Ministers’ meeting, we spoke about discipline of political parties, and it is up to the leadership of political parties to rein in their supporters because if they do not do that, we will have the same disaster as we had during the First All-Stakeholders’ Conference.”

He said to ensure sanity, breakaway groups equivalent to the number of chapters in the draft would be formed.

“Zanu PF will be allowed to speak on their amendments and we will have breakaway groups equivalent to the 18 chapters in the Copac draft. They will look at each chapter and make observations on those chapters during plenary. At the end of the day, Copac will analyse the proposed content to see whether they were appropriate to be employed to amend the constitution,” Matinenga said.