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Original Post Date: 2011-07-23 Time: 09:00:02 Posted By: News Poster
By Levi Mukarati
The appointment of Nhepera has also been condemned by the smaller faction of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) led by Welshman Ncube.
President Mugabe last week announced the appointment of Nhepera as deputy director of the CIO. A former ZANLA cadre, Nhepera replaced Mernard Muzariri, who succumbed to cancer three months ago.
The appointment comes as the protagonists in the troubled inclusive government are locked in a bitter wrangle over security sector reforms. The MDC formations want the spy agency to fall under the purview of Parliament.
Nhepera’s appointment has further widened cracks in the tripartite government with Prime Minister Tsvangirai and members from the MDC expressing unhappiness over President Mugabe’s continued unilateralism in the government of national unity (GNU).
Prime Minister Tsvangirai is expected to take up the issue with his rival during their next principals meeting. The meeting failed to take place this week due to the unavailability of all the three principals in the GNU.
Tsvangirai’s spokesperson, Luke Tambori-nyoka, confirmed his boss was not happy about President Mugabe’s latest unilateralism.
“The Prime Minister was not consulted . . . He (Tsvangirai) is not happy as it has become a tradition (of ZANU-PF) of not respecting the spirit of the inclusive government. I would not want to speculate our next move but we are not happy,” he said.
Kurauone Chihwayi, the deputy spokesperson for the MDC, said his party was worried that ZANU-PF continued to be insincere.
“We are concerned about this as a party in government. We are not going to keep quiet because we have legislators and ministers in government. This should come to a stop,” said Chihwayi.
Disharmony has been the major characteristic of the inclusive government.
Last year, Tsvangirai’s MDC-T threatened to pull out of the GNU after being infuriated by ZANU-PF’s appointment of provincial governors and the deployment of ambassadors to various countries without its input.
The three parties’ negotiators had agreed on a formula that would have seen the MDC-T getting five governorship posts, while the other four were to go to ZANU-PF and one to MDC.
But President Mugabe reneged on the agreement and appointed members from ZANU-PF forcing the MDC-T to go to the courts in a case which is still pending.
According to the 2008 Global Political Agreement (GPA) signed by the three parties President Mugabe is compelled to consult other partners in the inclusive government when making key senior appointments.
Rugare Gumbo, the ZANU-PF spokesperson, however, said it was folly for the MDC formations to dare challenge what the incumbent has decided.
“This is an appointment by the President and who is complaining about not being consulted? Consulted over what? Who said the President is obliged to consult? It is a general strategy of the MDC to cry over issues. Who are they to be consulted over security issues? It is a prerogative of the President as the Commander-in-Chief of the (Zimbabwe) Defence Forces and everyone should stand by it,” said Gumbo.
ZANU-PF’s latest position that President Mugabe was not under any obligation to consult signals its unwillingness to continue working with its partners, hence last weeks’ declaration by the party’s supreme decision-making body, the Politburo, that elections must be conducted this year.
The former ruling party wants elections this year to terminate the unity government while the MDC formations have been adamant that the environment is not yet conducive for the staging of fresh polls.
A road-map produced by the negotiators in the GPA has tentatively set the polls for August/September 2012 or early 2013.
Original date published: 22 July 2011
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201107230014.html?viewall=1