Nelson Chamisa the leader of the opposition MDC has told his supporters that the party was this year going to participate in the Clean-up campaign that was initiated by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
Addressing party supporters at Stodart Hall in Mbare where he was presenting the party’s Agenda 2020, Chamisa said that the party’s position had since changed. He said:
National building and nation development is a collective affair as MDC must do away with oppositional mindset. So, in all places, MDC must show its footprints.
We have not been participating in the national cleaning programme. Beginning this year, we are going to be part of the government’s clean-up campaign. We are coming up with what is called Jekesa Zimbabwe.
Every month, on the day that has been set aside for cleaning up places, we will now take part as MDC…we must have a nation-building project.
MDC did not participate in the programme for the whole of last year with its and officials and supporters saying that Mnangagwa was addressing window-shopping issues when real issues were not being considered.
Local authorities in Zimbabwe, Harare City, for instance, have not been regularly collecting garbage and this is worrying considering that Zimbabwe recently recorded cholera outbreaks.
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