Staff Reporter
The just ended Zanu PF internal elections have once again reflected the power wielded by the mass in charting their destiny with events in Mbire district of Mashonaland Central province picturing the beauty of democracy.
It is interesting to note the paradox in the district where the former agriculture deputy minister Cde Douglas Karoro emerged as the people’s elect in a wider vote margin with an attempt to appeal for a re-run by David Butau thrsown away.
The revolutionary party, Zanu PF, proved that it is indeed a political movement which has an entrenchment of democracy that highly respects the voice of the people as the voice of God.
Karoro of Mbire who is running for a third political term is one of the six out of eighteen parliamentarians in the province who retained his seat with a high pitched victory close to a ninety percent if measured on a scale of 100 against his rivals in the race.
Twelve legislators in the same province fell by the wayside in the tight primary elections race.
It is indeed appalling that such a comrade, who has undergone some gruesome political challenges in the form of some complex theft charges which he is still standing trial, could pull such a shocker in winning the hearts and minds of his kith and kin.
Whilst the scales of justice are yet to decide his case, the court of public opinion in Mbire has however since decided his innocence as mirrored by his landslide victory in the ended April primary elections.
The people of Mbire, the court of public opinion, is proving Karoro’s innocence by entrusting their hope in him to lead them in the next term which spans to 2028, something which reflect Zanu PF’s massive exercise of democracy.
Karoro, came into the political scene sometime in the year 2015 through a by-election after the expulsion from the party of the then legislator, Butau.
Having risen from a humble background of a teaching profession and working with the Lower Guruve Development organization, Karoro went on to win his second term in the 2018 elections.
It is in the aftermath of the 2018 harmonised elections that Karoro’s larger picture emerged in the national politics after his appointment as the deputy minister in the agriculture sector in which during his tenure he became one of the most beloved figure by journalists across newsrooms and various stakeholders which saw Mbire image magnified on the national radar and included in the economic empowerment
Veteran political and media analyst Mr Guilty Nyamayaro alludes to the belief that the growth of Mbire was made possible by the political rise of Karoro, “it is indeed the charismatic nature of Karoro which is seen by the mass which does win him these favours.
“Whilst in the aftermath of his arrest and the ongoing court case people might say one or two negative things I would like to think that the majority of the people in the party does share the same sentiments that Karoro has been one of the best political material in the province and in his service to the country he has also brought his people of Mbire in the spotlight which might explain why they even went on to re-elect him for office ahead of the 2023 harmonised elections,” opinionated Nyamayaro.
In one of his interviews back then, Karoro confirmed his strength in the mass, “I worked as a development worker with an NGO for ten good years, I mobilized over 1,5 million Euros for community programs like schools supplementary feeding, agriculture support to small holder farmers, emergency responses, income generating projects, I worked well with people.”
It is no surprise that after all those years of breaking bread with the indigenous people of his origin Karoro further finds himself in the second term of the Second Republic.
