WAR veterans’ leader Jabulani Sibanda on Saturday accused senior Zanu PF officials including national chairman and Senior Minister of State Simon Khaya Moyo of failing to capitalise on their positions to spearhead development in Matabeleland. MTHANDAZO NYONI, OWN CORRESPONDENT
Addressing guests at a party to celebrate the appointment of Eunice Sandi Moyo as Bulawayo Provincial Affairs minister in Bulawayo, Sibanda said the region still had nothing to show for the senior officials it had in government.
“Bulawayo industries need water to be resuscitated. We need the Matabeleland Zambezi Water Project (MZWP) to be completed. However, we continue suffering when we have a senior minister who is from the affected region. Honourable minister, please bail us out,” Sibanda said in apparent reference to Khaya Moyo.
“As a revolutionary party, we do not want corruption. No to division and we need unity,” he added.
Bulawayo was once the industrial hub of Zimbabwe, but the city’s industrial zone, Belmont, has become as quiet as a cemetery with virtually no machine running as most companies have either closed shop or relocated to Harare because of perennial water shortages.
The MZWP, which was mooted as far back as 1912, has been touted as the permanent solution to the city’s water problems, but the idea has remained just but a dream.
Addressing the same party, Khaya Moyo said Zanu PF would never hesitate to descend on party members who fan division.
“We shall take stern action on anybody fanning division. We will never care who you are. Let us not be a nation without discipline,” Khaya Moyo said.
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He also urged Bulawayo residents to rally behind Sandi Moyo and blasted former Prime Minister and MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai and his party for refusing to endorse Zanu PF’s electoral victory.
“AU (African Union) and Sadc endorsed the July 31 elections as free and fair yet Tsvangirai is busy flying to Western counties telling them that elections were stolen,” said Khaya Moyo.
Sandi Moyo said she was happy that MDC-T councillors were working well with her in bringing about development in the city.
“I am glad to announce that I am working very well with people whom I thought were going to be hard to work with. My office enters every office despite political affiliations to get to know how we can resuscitate Bulawayo.
“I also heard that the Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo statue and airport would be officially opened by President Robert Mugabe on Unity Day (December 22),” she said.
