Harare, Zimbabwe (News of the South)-The people in Binga are so backward and steeped in poverty that they could be well-off if they demanded cessation from Zimbabwe and be part of Zambia according to People’s Democratic Party (PDP) leader Tendai Biti.
Biti, who went on a tour of the area recently, said it was a miracle that the people still remained part of Zimbabwe despite being forgotten by the ZANU PF government.
“The levels of ZANU-induced underdevelopment in Binga shocking and unacceptable”.
“It is a miracle that the people of Binga have not demanded secession to Zambia because ZANU has done nothing for them”.
Biti said after 37 years of independence the Tonga remained an outcast group in their own country.
“For the Tonga people in Binga the national question remains unresolved. What does it mean to be Tonga in Zim?’
“In marginalized areas like Binga only genuine devolution offers an answer to breaking ZANU chains of poverty”, he said.
Biti said it was such places that should provide the impetus for opposition parties to quickly agree on a coalition.
“Places like Binga expose the opposition’s selfishness in failing to construct the grand coalition”.
“Our failure to come together and our permanent state of fumbling blundering and mediocrity is making the Butcher s take over inevitable”, he added.
Binga is renowned for being one of the most remote areas in the country which is still steeped in traditional practices that have long ceased being practiced in other regions due to the infiltration of western culture.
The PDP leader who also toured Chikurubi Maximum Prison said the jail is another sign of the inhumanity of ZANU PF just like Binga.
“Spend the day interviewing 20 death row prisoners at Chikurubi Maximum, capital punishment is inhuman and degrading”.
“It must be abolished!’.
“That the ZANU regime has kept Chikurubi Maximum with its inhuman conditions for 37 years speaks volumes to its state of debasement”, he said.
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