Zimbabwe: Opposition leader to challenge Parly relocation
By Tafadzwa Muranganwa – Maverick businessman and opposition leader Joseph Busha is mulling a court challenge to bar the relocation of the parliament building from Harare’s CBD to the outskirts of the city arguing the move was insensitive.
Recently, President Emmerson Mnangagwa laid the foundation stone for the huge new $140 million parliament to be built over 32 months by the Shanghai Construction group at Mount Hampden, 18km north-west of Harare.
But speaking at a press conference held in the capital Harare on Friday, FreeZim Congress President Joseph Busha who came 4thin the July harmonized elections blasted the relocation of the parliament building and revealed that his legal team is already working on challenging the move.
“As a party we want to seek the court to stop the building of a new parliament which is going to cost a lot of money while we don’t have enough hospitals.
“My legal team is already working on that because we view this as insensitive,” revealed Busha.
The South African-based business mogul believes there was no way President Emmerson Mnangagwa would chart a new order on how this country is governed since he has been part of the previous government.
“This year’s elections were crucial in that they would have enacted a new leadership because there is nothing new when the new president used to be a vice president in the old regime,” added the FreeZim Congress leader.
He also argued that nothing concrete is being done to tame corruption despite it being the reason why the former President Robert Mugabe was deposed.
“One of the things that Zimbabweans were repeatedly told was that the new dispensation was targeting criminals which were causing corruption would but that has not been done.
“Those few ministers who have been taken for questioning… I’m not quite sure if those are the only people who have committed crime in Zimbabwe,” queried the opposition leader.
Turning to the recently published report of the Commission of Inquiry on the August 1 killings, according to the FreeZim Congress leader, the commission of inquiry should have seen that there was the need to appease the August 1 victims by ensuring that those children who lost their breadwinners are able to attain education free of charge and those injured are able to get medical treatment at the expense of the government.
