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Africa-Press<\/a> – Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Opposition MDC Alliance has expressed over the \u201cforced\u201d enrolment of council officials at the ZANU PF\u2019s Chitepo School of Ideology. We present the party\u2019s statement in full below.<\/p>\n

ZANU PF IDEOLOGICAL ORIENTATION OF COUNCILLORS UNCONSTITUTIONAL<\/p>\n

The MDC Alliance is extremely concerned at the latest move by ZANU PF to take council staff members throughout the country through a partisan ideological orientation program at the ZANU PF school of ideology. Council employees such as chief executive officers, town clerks and town secretaries are being forced to enrol in the partisan ideological training program.<\/p>\n

The Constitution of Zimbabwe clearly prohibits civil servants and senior employees of councils from being partisan. It is evident that taking these functionaries through a political party school of ideology intends to cause these civil servants to pursue a partisan ZANU PF agenda in circumstances where the law and basic principles of corporate governance require them to be impartial, professional and focused on service delivery \u2014 not the pursuit of toxic politics in the execution of their duties.<\/p>\n

The improper conflation of State and party is one of the main reasons why there is no appetite on the part of Mr Mnangagwa\u2019s regime to implement the constitutional imperative of devolution. This has hamstrung the operation of councils and led to poor service delivery. Council staff are now controlled by ZANU PF which has exerted undue influence in matters of staff recruitment, procurement, budgeting and service delivery.<\/p>\n

The planned ideological training is designed to brainwash and entrench the dysfunctional state of local authorities.<\/p>\n

We call for an immediate end to the planned training and ideological orientation program. The Constitution must be observed in full \u2014 including through the respect of council staff\u2019s duty to be impartial and profession as well as the urgent implementation of devolution so that local authorities can be properly equipped to carry out proper service delivery for the benefit of the people. This ideal lies at the centre of our People\u2019s Agenda and our Local Government Reform Agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. Opposition MDC Alliance has expressed over the \u201cforced\u201d enrolment of council officials at the ZANU PF\u2019s Chitepo School of Ideology. We present the party\u2019s statement in full below. ZANU PF IDEOLOGICAL ORIENTATION OF COUNCILLORS UNCONSTITUTIONAL The MDC Alliance is extremely concerned at the latest move by ZANU PF to take council staff […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":38434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35,10,15],"tags":[1493,2189,4009,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-38435","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-homepage-english","9":"category-parties","10":"category-twitter","11":"tag-africa-press","12":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","13":"tag-chitepo-school-of-ideology","14":"tag-zimbabwe"},"yoast_head":"\nMDC Alliance Concerned Over Forced Enrolment Of Council Officials At Chitepo School Of Ideology - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Opposition MDC Alliance has expressed over the \u201cforced\u201d enrolment of council officials at the ZANU PF\u2019s Chitepo School o ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mdc-alliance-concerned-over-forced-enrolment-of-council-officials-at-chitepo-school-of-ideology\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MDC Alliance Concerned Over Forced Enrolment Of Council Officials At Chitepo School Of Ideology\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Opposition MDC Alliance has expressed over the \u201cforced\u201d enrolment of council officials at the ZANU PF\u2019s Chitepo School o ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mdc-alliance-concerned-over-forced-enrolment-of-council-officials-at-chitepo-school-of-ideology\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-04-12T16:58:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-04-12T15:18:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/04\/img-60746495cd90c.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"822\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mdc-alliance-concerned-over-forced-enrolment-of-council-officials-at-chitepo-school-of-ideology\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mdc-alliance-concerned-over-forced-enrolment-of-council-officials-at-chitepo-school-of-ideology\",\"name\":\"MDC Alliance Concerned Over Forced Enrolment Of Council Officials At Chitepo School Of Ideology - 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