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Tendai Biti, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) president and a constitutional law expert says President Robert Mugabe is breaking the law by telling judges how to make do their business.
Speaking to Zanu PF youths on Saturday, Mugabe rapped the judiciary for being reckless by allowing demonstrations to proceed despite past violence.
Critics have blamed the violence on the police who have used heavy-handed tactics to disperse protesters even when the courts barred them from interfering.
Speaking at a rally in Harare at the weekend, Biti, who is also representing a team of political parties and human rights defenders challenging a recent ban on demonstrations in central Harare, said Mugabe was acting unconstitutionally.
“Our constitution says the courts are independent and Mugabe is breaking the constitution by attacking the independence of the courts.
“We cannot have a president who does not respect the constitution. We cannot have a president who treats judges as his housemaids,” said Biti.
The PDP leader told party supporters that Zimbabweans must carry the burden of liberating Zimbabwe from Mugabe’s rule, which many say has failed owing to a worsening economic crisis and poor governance.
“Now it is time for us to carry our cross and remove Robert Mugabe and the Zanu PF regime. We cannot delegate this,” he said. “We have no guns but a constitutional right to go into the streets”.
He said his party would continue piling pressure on Mugabe and his government.
“As PDP our solution to this economic and political breakdown is simple. Let us put pressure on the government through the courts, churches and streets because it is the future of our children and grandchildren at stake,” he said.
“A government that is feared by the people is not a government. The government should fear the people,” added Biti.
He called on all opposition political parties to come together and demand electoral reforms before the next elections in 2018.
Source: Nehanda Radio
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