{"id":2945,"date":"2019-02-01T14:59:24","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T14:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=2945"},"modified":"2019-02-01T14:59:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T14:59:24","slug":"uk-members-of-parliments-regret-endorsing-mnangawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/uk-members-of-parliments-regret-endorsing-mnangawa","title":{"rendered":"UK Members of Parliments regret endorsing Mnangawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>British Members of Parliments\u00a0 say they regret that their government took a quick stance to cosy up to the Zimbabwean administration soon after President Emmerson Mnangagwa took over power from former president Robert Mugabe in the November 2017 coup.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Kate Hoey, a Labour Party MP, moved a motion in Parliament for the MPs to debate on the situation in Zimbabwe and the country\u2019s efforts to reengage and be readmitted into the Commonwealth.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Hoey was part of the British politicians that visited Zimbabwe before last year\u2019s elections to assess the situation in the country and to report back to the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association. Their assessment was based on the country\u2019s possibility to conduct a free and fair election in the post Mugabe era.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Zimbabwe, Hoey, bemoaned the British stance of sending back some Zimbabweans who had been staying in that country running away from political persecution from Mugabe\u2019s regime, claiming nothing had significantly changed.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cWill the minister confirm that to Her Majesty\u2019s government, and particularly the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, have learnt a lesson from what I would call the ill-advised cosying-up to the Zimbabwean leadership, which owed its position, power and loyalty to the military and political machine that manoeuvred to install it and not to the people of Zimbabwe through a free and fair electoral process?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cI will not go into more detail; the minister knows what I am talking about. There is no doubt that our embassy in Zimbabwe had become too identified, rightly or wrongly \u2014 I think wrongly \u2014 with Zanu PF,\u201d Hoey said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>She further said many Zimbabweans who suffered at the hands of Zanu PF\u2019s brutality were shocked at Britain embassy\u2019s positive stance on Zimbabwe, following Mugabe\u2019s departure.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cI want to make sure that the minister realises that those of us who urged caution, particularly Zimbabweans who have long had to cope with the machinations of Zanu PF brutality and the manipulation of international opinion, were rebuffed by some officials in our embassy who thought that they knew better. I hope that we have learnt that lesson. I pay tribute to all the people in Zimbabwe who have continued to work for democracy, and all the members of the all-party group and everyone in this House who will not let Zimbabwe be forgotten,\u201d she said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Hoey also spoke about the deteriorating economic situation in the country, as the security forces continue to arbitrarily attack civilians.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cOf course, since the election, the economy has got even worse. Mnangagwa made a great issue of the fact that Zimbabwe was open for business \u2014 the world could come and invest again; there was going to be this absolute change. That did not actually happen. There are huge shortages of food and other important goods.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cMore recently, on 12 January this year, Mnangagwa announced a huge \u2014 200 percent \u2014 increase in the price of fuel. That was in a country in which very few people could afford the fuel price as it was, and it led to Zimbabwe, of all countries in the world, having the highest fuel prices. It was just not tenable, and people reacted.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cThe trade unions, which have shown great courage throughout all of this, called for a countrywide \u2018stay away\u2019 in protest, and there were demonstrations. There is no doubt that some of the younger people, unemployed people, were very angry, and probably some looting did go on in parts of Bulawayo and Harare, but what the army and the government did was to respond immediately with huge, excessive force, which left 12 people dead and up to 100 with gunshot wounds, and hundreds of people were lifted in the middle of the night, imprisoned and denied bail,\u201d Hoey said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>One of the Conservative MPs Nicholas Soames, chipped in, stating South Africa was failing to take the Zimbabwean situation seriously.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Another MP John Howell, also spoke about the problems in the country, claiming the judiciary was not independent, an aspect further explained by Hoey, who claimed the country\u2019s rule of law is now broken.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cWe have to be clear that we are calling for the end of the deployment of the military. They have to go back into their barracks. We have to get the United Nations to say that and to make a strong statement on the rule of law,\u201d Hoey said.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Members of Parliments\u00a0 say they regret that their government took a quick stance to cosy up to the Zimbabwean administration soon after President Emmerson Mnangagwa took over power from former president Robert Mugabe in the November 2017 coup. 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