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Harare Bureau
MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai claims that if the electorate vote him into power, Zimbabwe will be “awash with money” and threatened that suffering, similar to hardships experienced before 2009, will visit people if his party does not get into Government.
Mr Tsvangirai is taking his supporters on a wild goose chase by promising them that he will bring a lot of money into the country if elected on 31 July when he failed to do so for the last four-and-a-half years he was in Government despite assuring people that he would bring the money.
Speaking at rallies he held in Masvingo, Magunje and Kariba over the weekend, Mr Tsvangirai also threatened to take back the country to the period before 2009 when people suffered because the economic sanctions which his party called for were hitting hard on ordinary citizens.
Addressing his supporters at a rally at Mucheke Stadium in Masvingo yesterday, Mr Tsvangirai said the only option for Zimbabweans not to experience any economic hardships was to vote for his party which is sponsored by the West.
He alleged that the MDC-T, which invited sanctions that have caused untold socio-economic hardships in the country for the past decade, would bring in a lot of money into the country. “If the MDC-T wins the coming elections, this country will be awash with money, hamupedzi mari inouya muno if we win elections, but if you vote wrongly, well you go back to 2008 when things were very hard,” said Mr Tsvangirai.
“This is not just empty talk, but the truth.”
Mr Tsvangirai made a U-turn on his party’s policy on land, saying the MDC-T had always supported the land reform programme.
He claimed that only senior Government and military officials and a few ordinary people had benefited from the land reform programme despite that records show that over 300 000 Zimbabweans were allocated land since the inception of the land redistribution programme.
Mr Tsvangirai promised his supporters that he could create over one million jobs over five years and revive closed industries if he won.
He accused the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission of lacking capacity to run the forthcoming harmonised elections, but he did not mention that his party’s secretary general and Finance Minister Tendai Biti was reluctant to release money to fund the polls.
Addressing a handful of his party supporters in Magunje and Kariba on Friday, Mr Tsvangirai also made the same threats that sanctions would hit hard if people did not vote for him.
He said the country would be taken back to the period of long queues for basic commodities if he lost.
Zimbabwe experienced shortages of basic commodities as economic sanctions that were called for by the MDC-T and imposed by its Western allies sabotaged the productive sector.
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