ZANU PF apologist and Destiny for Afrika Network founder Obadiah Msindo has sensationally claimed that his organisation could help the ruling party achieve its 2,2 million job creation target by 2018.
BY KENNETH NYANGANI
In the run-up to the 2013 general elections, President Robert Mugabe, as part of his party’s manifesto, promised to create over 2,2 million jobs before the next polls due in two years’ time.
However, three years down the line, the ruling party has failed to deliver on its pledge, and instead thousands of workers have lost their jobs as the economy continues to shrink.
Msindo told thousands of beneficiaries of his housing scheme in Mutare over the weekend that he had co-operation agreements worth million of dollars in mining, construction, farming and security, among other areas.
“We are starting up a security company, ready to compete with established service providers in the market. We have a cross-border association where members will be given permits to buy goods and import products from outside the country,” Msindo claimed.
“We also have the Zimbabwe building brigades, under which we will have trained builders, plumbers and painters employed in their thousands and this will go a long way in complementing government efforts to create the promised 2,2 million jobs.”
Msindo claimed his organisation would soon spread its wings into the continent.
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In typical Zanu PF style, Msindo declared that the projects would only benefit ruling party supporters.
“If anyone is unhappy with Mugabe’s rule, please just pack your bags and go. Leave our stands. Those in Hobhouse Section (near Mutare’s Chikanga high-density suburb) we wanted to send lawyers to take those stands or houses. The government is saying take the stands, then you can give them to those who want to pay. (Local Government) minister Saviour Kasukuwere said no one should get a stand without paying, those who are failing to pay we are going to unleash debt collectors on you starting on Monday (yesterday),” he said. “Mugabe was overwhelmingly voted into power in 2013, so any means to remove him unconstitutionally will not be supported.They can only remove him through the 2018 elections or Parliament.”
Mugabe has been under mounting pressure from opposition political parties, civic society organisations and church groupings to step down over an increasingly untenable economic, social and political crisis.
