Copac defends draft constitution

Copac has defended the draft of the country’s new governance charter saying the supreme law was based on 26 constitutional principles extracted from public hearings.

Two of the co-chairpersons in the country’s constitution-making body, Munyaradzi Paul Mangwana (Zanu PF) and Douglas Mwonzora (MDC-T), yesterday said the draft constitution was extracted from public views.

They rubbished reports in some sections of the media suggesting the drafters of the new governance charter had adopted a foreign draft constitutional model and dumped contributions made by the public during the outreach programme.

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