ONE of our local leaders is selling cell phone lines for US$10 each to villagers and youths in our rural area. How acceptable is this? It will be recalled that during the run up to the 2005 elections a similar occurrence took place wherein political leaders hoarded cell phone lines under the guise of getting them for their constituencies but were subsequently laundering them on the black market for handsome amounts.
This same leader is also exhorting village heads to select and ensure that people who will participate in the outreach meetings of the constitution-making process will declare that the villagers they represent are only interested in a constitution based on the Kariba Draft document.
There is need for civil society organisations to penetrate such areas as part of the awareness campaign of the constitution-making process in order to ensure that the people are free to participate and express their views and not those they are being coached to make when the outreach teams visit their areas.

Under siege
Mberengwa
The Midlands.

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