"A Commission of Inquiry into the August 1 shootings that occurred after the July 30 harmonised elections will resume today with MDC president Nelson Chamisa expected to testify,” reported Bulawayo 24.
Chamisa and the rest of the opposition were warned repeatedly not to take part in the recent elections until democratic reforms are implemented to make sure the elections are free, fair and credible. He would not listen, claiming "MDC had stringent measures to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections!" The stringent measures did not work against ZEC for Justice Chigumba and her fellow commissioners blatantly disregarded the law to secure a landslide victory for Zanu PF.
Chamisa boasted that he had assembled "the A-Team" to challenge the election result in the Con-Court. It Judges went on to confirm Mnangagwa as the winner ignoring all the evidence of serious disregard of the law under the pretext the evidence was not confirmed by "primary source evidence" in the sealed ballot boxes.
They knew the plaintiff's, Chamisa, request to have the ballot boxes opened was denied. Although the Judges could and should have demanded to have the ballot boxes opened, particularly since they were the ones insisting on primary source evidence. They did not make any such demand because they knew the same chaos, irregularity, illegalities, etc. found in the evidence before the court would also be found in the sealed ballot boxes.
It is fair to say the Con-Court started from the outcome, they had to confirm Mnangagwa as the winner, and so they task was to find a plausible excuse to justify their judgement. They would reject the damning evidence presented to the court by both the plaintiff and the key defendant, ZEC, on the grounds that it was not collaborated by primary source evidence - a convenient legal bolt hole!
It should be remembered that it was the same Judiciary that had ruled the the 15 November 2017 military coup was "legal, constitutional and justified"! Of course, it was naive to expect justice from a judiciary that is corrupt to the core!
Of course, it was very foolish of Nelson Chamisa and all the other opposition parties to agree to take part in an election process they knew from the word go was flawed and illegal. But having agreed to a corrupt and incompetent ZEC organising the elections and to an equal corrupt and compromised Con-Court to judge the electoral process; it is naive of Chamisa to think he can now refuse to appear before the Commission of Inquiry into 1 st August 2018 shooting on the grounds the Commission is biased.
It would be a real surprise if the Motlanthe Commission was not biased, corrupt and incompetent. No one in their right mind expects the Commission to accomplish much other than gloss over the shooting and the serious matter of the rigged elections, which triggered the protest. But that is all beside the point.
The point is that Chamisa accepted ZEC, the Con-Court and all the other corrupt and compromised state institutions' power and authority in handling the various aspect of the election process. Why, therefore, is he now refusing to accept the power and authority of the Motlanthe Commission? Chamisa is appearing before the Commission because he cannot cherry pick!
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