adminVictor Maphosa Mash East Correspondent
Zanu-PF Youth League secretary Cde Pupurai Togarepi has commended President Mnangagwa for opening the Empower Bank (Youth Bank), saying the initiative will empower future leaders of Zimbabwe.
Cde Togarepi was addressing Zanu-PF youths from the party’s eastern region during a Youth Convention held in Chivhu recently.
The eastern region was made up of youths from Mashonaland East, Manicaland and Masvingo provinces for the purposes of the convention.
The aim of the convention was to emphasise the endorsement of President Mnangagwa at regional level and to mobilise support for the party.
In his remarks, Cde Togarepi said the President was engaging in numerous youth empowerment programmes and for that and other reasons, youths should vote for him.
“We sat down at national level to discuss and map a way forward on how best youths can be empowered and after exhausting all the possibilities, we approached President Mnangagwa with our concerns and as you know, he is a listening man; he promised to help us,” said Cde Togarepi.
“Most recently, we witnessed the launch of the (Empower) Youth Bank in Harare. The President has fulfilled his promise to all youths and we thank him for empowering us the future leaders of Zimbabwe, and for this and many developmental programmes our President has done, we say: ‘ED has our vote’.”
Cde Togarepi called on youths to use the bank productively and help in developing the nation.
“Comrades, this bank is ours, those who are interested in mining, farming, marketing and even in technology; this is the opportunity to live your dream,” he said. “We must use the bank to empower ourselves and by doing so develop our nation.”
Cde Togarepi said President Mnangagwa needed support of the youth and urged them to show that support through the ballot box.
He commended Zanu-PF youths for being peaceful and mature as the nation heads for elections.
“You are showing maturity and this is commendable,” said Cde Togarepi. “This is what we want; this is what our President wants.”
Cde Togarepi said youths should continue mobilising support for the party and condemned other political parties for trying to control Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) operations.
“We want our party to win, so let us mobilise more support,” he said. “Other political parties are busy locking horns with ZEC every day. Maybe they want ZEC to vote for them, they forget that ZEC is an independent entity.
“Come July 30, we will defeat them and obviously they will cry. How can they even get a vote when they are wasting time on ZEC.”
Cde Togarepi said some parties were threatening to boycott the elections because they were afraid of losing.
“Some mathematicians in the opposition parties have done the calculations and discovered that they will not win and they are now thinking of boycotting,” he said.
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