ZIMBABWE — Three weeks after the signing of the political settlement by the three principals of the political parties in Zimbabwe, the country finds itself in extreme distress as Zanu PF's intransigence over key ministries and governors sends all sectors of the economy facing collapse.

 

Zanu PF's insensitivity has left many people across the country dying of starvation, pupils failing to attend school because the teachers are on strike, parents failing to access their money from the banks, patients failing to get treatment as doctors and nurses are on strike and the hospitals have no medicine.

 

 

In short, there is a national paralysis. Zanu PF does not seem to appreciate the magnitude of the crisis in the country.

 

The whole nation is hanging characterised by anxiety, uncertainty and speculation.

 

 

 

The paralysis has resulted on a serious catastrophe as it has affected families who will starve to death.

 

It has been a wasted academic year. It has been a lost business year.

It also looks like a wasted agricultural season, as Zimbabwe cannot be expected to make adequate preparations for the current farming season.

 

We must always put the people first ahead of petty interests as Zanu PF is doing. We cannot take the people for granted.

Zanu PF is insisting on running all the key ministries in the country when the same party has in the past 28 years crippled the economy of a once vibrant country.

Our argument for equal sharing of responsibilities is motivated by the desire to change the way we have been doing business in order to improve people's lives. Unlike Zanu PF our religion is not power but the people's aspirations.

We are glad that Zimbabweans in their majority understand and support our position of insisting on genuine power sharing. The people are on our side.

The MDC is calling for equal distribution of key ministries so that it is in government in a partnership of equals.

Zimbabweans want a new and responsive government in place so that it begins to address the people's concerns of food, jobs, medicines and education.

 

 Nelson Chamisa is the spokesman of Zimbabwe's main MDC party.

 

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