Emmanuel Zellers Gumbo

Dear Citizens The five points below are very important. 1. We the citizens - the supporters and followers of our leader President @nelsonchamisa are very clear and content with the agenda that was outlined by our leader. There are people who peddle a narrow ZANU-PF factional agenda who want to force our President to participate in their narrow agenda. They are demanding from our leader what they are not demanding from their own leader. Their leader is dead silent. They accept the silence of their leader but demand the speech of our leader. 2. Citizens, these people have gone all out to spread a lot of lies and create stories about our President in order to force him to fight their own narrow agenda. Our leader is clear and firm on our agenda 2026. He is no pushover at all. However, he has always been open to engage in any discussion of national interest to address the governance crisis. It does not start today with CAB3, No 3. While our leader is against CAB3 and has always publicly said NOTO2030, we clearly understand that the problem in this country is not CAB3. The bill is just a sympton of the Crisis of Governance that has destroyed Zimbabwe. The fight against the bill should be approached from this understanding and as part of our broad citizen fight not as the solution. Don't be made to believe that this bill alone will answer our citizen problems. Fighting against the Bill alone without fighting against the broad crisis of governance will not yield anything. Those trying to make you believe that it all starts and ends with CAB3 are crooks. We have been here before. Once bitten twice shy. 4. The stolen 2018 and 2023 elections are the same or worse than CAB3; the removal of duly elected people’s representatives (MPs and Councilors) is same or worse than CAB3; the murder and harassment of innocent citizen movement leaders is same or worse than CAB3; the abuse of civil servants is worse or same with CAB3. The take over of the citizen organisation CCC is a serious bastardization of the constitution. Anyone who wants you to focus on CAB3 only and ignore this is a wolve in a sheepskin. Anyone who wants you to believe that an election date is more important than the actual vote you made in 2023 and will make in 2028 that never counts is a crook. They were there when all this was happening and did not defend the constitution. They never said a word. Some of them participated and are responsible for this bastardization of the same constitution. They are not genuinely interested in the rights and freedoms of the citizens. They just want to take political power to continue oppresing us. 5. Citizens, let's be clear about our problem. Our problem is that we are under an oppressive governance crisis created by ZANU-PF. This crisis used to target only opposition citizens but is now affecting even those who used to be safe in ZANU-PF. That's why our position has always been that the solution to this problem is a political settlement that leads to a comprehensive reform agenda agreed to by all Zimbabweans so that the country can have a genuine fresh start. We should not be forced to ignore the real citizen issues by people who only feel the pain of CAB3. They are only tasting suffering now, we have been suffering ever since, under their watch. They must acknowledge our own suffering and work with us for a genuinely free country for all. We are not going to fight to replace one oppressor with another. That's not our fight, sorry. Citizens, is this not simple, clear and fair? Thank you.