Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has claimed that Zanu PF does not force anyone to attend its rallies and urged all people who have relatives who have been forced to attend rallies to go to the courts.
After being asked whether it was government policy to make people attend rallies, especially President Mugabe’s ongoing rallies, Mnangagwa said:
…Secondly, I would like to inform the House that it is not Zanu PF policy to force people to attend Zanu PF rallies.
If anybody who has a relative who was forced, the courts are open for them to say, ‘I was forced to go to a Zanu PF rally’.
We do not force people to attend our rallies. Thirdly, we have no policy – both as Government as well as Zanu PF – to force people to stop their businesses because there is a rally.
People must eat and work and it is our policy that people must work and earn a living.
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