War vets demand Parly seats

ZANU PF’s war veterans have told President Emmerson Mnangagwa to reserve seats in Parliament exclusively for the 1970s liberation war fighters to preserve the party’s rule.

Presenting the war veterans league conference resolution at the weekend, its secretary for legal affairs Jairos Mapuranga said: “Consideration should be made to have a war veterans quota in the (National) Assembly to ensure that the party is represented by the comrades grounded in ideology to override the system of individuals with narrow selfish interests and that the legislators expedite the enactment of the Patriotic Bill to effectively protect the country and its leadership from treacherous mechanisation by political malcontents.”

Mnangagwa, however, said war veterans were expecting too much from him and his government.

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