by Charles Motsi

The MDC-T (Chamisa) National Organising Secretary, Amos Chibaya, has threatened that his party will forcibly remove President Emmerson Mnangagwa from office if he did not instruct the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) to yield to their demands.

“If ZEC and (President) Mnangagwa will not heed our call for our reforms after the march tomorrow, we will march to State House tobvisa ED wacho naChigumba wake (we will remove ED and Chigumba),” threatened Chibaya.

Chibaya was speaking at the national assembly campaign launch for his party’s youth chairperson, Happmore Chidziva, in Highfield yesterday.

His insinuations of MDC Alliance turning to violence are nothing new as Alliance president, Nelson Chamisa, is on record stating that his party would never accept any election result that does not favour him.

The narrative of violence was also expressed by the MDC-T Youth Assembly Secretary General, Lovemore Chinoputsa, who promised that today’s planned peaceful march would be the last time his party used such methods as they will be resorting to other means of expressing their anger after today.

“Let tomorrow be the last day we have these marches, if ZEC does not yield to our demands, we shall take this fight a gear up until we get results,” said Chinoputsa.

Not to be left out was #SheVotes2018 Campaign Coordinator, Maureeen Kademaunga, who compared Zanu PF supporters to cockroaches and promised that as the MDC Alliance, they should exterminate them.

“If you have a cockroach problem and you kill the queen, does that mean the problem is gone, NO! What we did in November 2017 when we removed (former president Robert) Mugabe was to exterminate the queen now come 30 July, we will exterminate all of the cockroaches,” fumed Kademaunga.

According to a report by human rights activist group, the Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) in the month of June, MDC-T recorded more cases of electoral intra party violence (16 cases) than the ruling Zanu PF party (three cases).