Repeal POSA And AIPPA, US Ambassador Tells Government

6 years agoTue, 18 Dec 2018 06:49:18 GMT

Repeal POSA And AIPPA, US Ambassador Tells Government

The United States Ambassador to Zimbabwe Brian Nichols said that the country should prioritize the implementation of political and economic reforms if the country is to come out of isolation.

While speaking during a courtesy call to the Speaker of the House of Assembly, Jacob Mudenda, in Harare on Monday, Nichols said

The proposals from this government have been wonderful, but we need to see concrete action and Parliament is where those actions take place: repeal of [Public Order and Security Act] Posa and [Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act] Aippa, electoral reforms, implementation of some of the recommendations of the observer missions and improving the environment for doing business. That is all parliamentary business.

Mudenda said that the Parliament has started the process to realign some pieces of legislation with the Constitution. Said Mudenda

Any electoral reforms that need to take place will come through Parliament like Posa. The Constitutional Court has already ruled that section 27 of Posa seems to offend the free assembly of people, so Parliament has no choice, but to amend that section of the Constitution.
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We have indicated to the ambassador [Nichols] that we have started the process through the administration of the Parliament to ensure that the pieces of legislation that were proposed by his Excellency the President [Emmerson Mnangagwa] during the State of the Nation Address are pursued with vigour to ensure that the legislative process is consummated in the next few months.