ZANU PF Use Sanctions As Excuse For Failure - Madhuku

National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) president Professor Lovemore Madhuku has urged Western powers to remove sanctions on the country saying that will expose bad governance by the ruling ZANU PF.

Madhuku made the remarks while addressing party structures in Kwekwe recently amid the country’s preparations to commemorate the SADC Anti-Sanctions Day set for 25 October. He said:

Denouncing sanctions doesn’t make one Zanu PF. The imposition of sanctions on a country is not good no matter how small the sanctions might appear.

Zanu PF is using the sanctions mantra as an excuse for its economic failures. I want sanctions removed so that it will not have any excuses for failing to run the country.

The ruling party has always attributed economic, humanitarian and political crises in the country to sanctions which were imposed at the turn of the millennium following the controversial fast-track land reform.

Madhuku wants sanctions removed so that the government won’t hind “behind the sanctions mantra for its inability to resuscitate the country’s economy.”

He also observed that since the ascendancy of President Emmerson Mnangagwa to power in 2018, Zimbabwe has been on a downward trend economically adding that there is “no success to speak of as he has totally failed.”

Some say corruption which is rampant in the country is the leading factor choking efforts to revive the collapsed economy.

Western states including the United Kingdom, the United States and members of the European Union argue that the sanctions are measures meant to coerce Zimbabwe to return to constitutionalism, rule of law and good governance.

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