The MDC calls upon the police to immediately arrest the Zanu PF youths who have threatened the office and person of the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe. The Zanu PF threat on party President and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is a blatant attack not only on his person and office, but a reprehensible criminal act that threatens the inclusive government and the Global Political Agreement (GPA).

The MDC takes these threats seriously as several attempts have been made on the life of the Prime Minister. History is littered with serious attempts to eliminate him which have not been taken seriously by the police. Ten years ago, some men attempted to throw him out of his office window in the ninth floor of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) offices in Harare. On 11 March 2007, he was almost killed by police officers and hired assassins who brutally attacked him.
It is inhuman for Zanu PF to issue such a threat at a time the Prime Minister is absent from official duties as a result of an operation on injuries sustained on 11 March 2007. It is immoral, un-African and inhuman to make the threats a week before the memorial service of his wife, who was killed in a suspicious accident which may well have been an attempt on his life.

Morgan Tsvangirai is the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe. This is a litmus test for the police and the security forces as the nation awaits to see the arrest of the hired street urchins who threatened to take “action” on the Prime Minister of the country, the undisputed winner of the 29 March 2008 elections. These youths were publicly incited by Politburo members Rugare Gumbo and Absolom Sikhosana; clear evidence that the opposition party’s supreme decision making body is an accomplice in this criminal act. All those persons implicated in this dastardly act must immediately be brought to book.

The MDC wants these youths and their sponsors arrested and charged. We call upon SADC and the African Union, the guarantors of the GPA, to intervene and resolve this blatant criminal act which may well be the beginning of deliberate efforts to scuttle and kill a regional initiative which had brought hope to the people of Zimbabwe.

We also call upon the public media to refrain from being complicit by publicizing criminality against the Head of Government. Sowing conflict and divisions in the inclusive government is inimical to the national interest. The public media, especially The Herald must be at the forefront of sounding melodious drums that promote unity and not conflict, development and not hate, progress and not regression.Zimbabweans want real change. They want hope, dignity, security, prosperity and freedom.
Together to the end, marching to a new Zimbabwe.