PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe is ready to lean on the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) to provide campaign cars for the Zanu PF youth league ahead of elections expected in 2018.
Mugabe told the Zanu PF youth league national assembly last weekend that he would make sure their transport problems are resolved ahead of the key vote.
“You have approached us with a request for cars to make your activities easier. We have discussed this with (Ignatius) Chombo (Zanu PF secretary for administration) and the party will provide you with cars. That we will make sure.
“We have a facility with the RBZ and we will use that,” Mugabe said to rapturous applause from about 200 national executive members from the ruling party’s youth league.
Mugabe’s critics and opposition parties have accused the Zanu PF leader of conflating his party and government as well as looting the national treasury to fund his political activities which have nothing to do with the State.
At the same meeting the Zanu PF youth league secretary for finance Tongai Kasukuwere revealed that a senior ministry of Education officials had been hauled before a disciplinary hearing after “helping the league with fuel”.
“We received fuel from a director in the ministry of education but he is being harassed for assisting the league. We want that to stop, President,” Kasukuwere told Mugabe.
Kasukuwere, among other speakers, also complained to Mugabe about police activities across the country against Zanu PF activists involved in illegal mining.
“Our youths want to benefit from gold mining but they do not have the money to set up mines. Now we have a problem because police are harassing them. They have made our activities impossible and something needs to be done.
“The issue of illegal land settlers might also have negative effects to mobilise youth to vote for the party in 2018. There are problems as you have heard in Matabeleland South, Midlands and Mashonaland West as well as Mashonaland East,” the youths said.
In response Mugabe urged the youths to “try and operate within the confines of the law”.
“You need to make sure your activities do not run afoul of the law but we will see what can be done,” the veteran leader said.
Mugabe’s administration has been accused of partisan distribution of food, land and resources such as land but he has always denied the charges and at times takes positions that seem to go against exclusion of opposition members.
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