By Kudakwashe Vhenge
Zimbabwe National Student Union (ZINASU) has filled a court application against its members Rodrick Fayayo and Mfundo Mlilo as first and second responded respectively.
The application came after the student body had its elective national congress which was held in the capital on Saturday disrupted by a gang of thugs reportedly at the order of its union’s coordinator Samuel Gwenzi.
The application has a constitution attached to it which provides for the convening of an elective congress and the procedures thereof which the respondents are said to have violated.
The applicant further states that the respondents conveyed a congress whose composition whose composition did not constitute a quorum and proceeded to conduct congress business contrary to the provisions of the constitution.
The applicant seeks to declare null and void the outcome of the congress held by the first and second respondents and for them to pay the cost of suit.
The purported national executive members elected on the 7th of December are therefore interdicted from acting in any capacity pending the reconvening of the applicant’s congress in terms of the constitution.
Speaking to this publication Zinasu President Archbald Madida said over a hundred none students were bussed prompting him to declare that there was no election that would be taking place.
“They just came and told us there would not be entertaining any election and told everyone to leave.
“After we tried to reason with them they started threatening us and we had to flee from the venue,” said Madida.
“We have reliable information that Samuel Gwenzi sent them.”
Gwenzi was still at the venue after the incident.
Hundreds of tertiary students are currently stuck in the capital waiting to get communication whether the congress will go ahead as planned.
Added Madida; “No congress has been held, we will communicate with our members on the way forward as soon as possible.”
Students’ representative bodies have been critiqued to be a replica of national politics after reports of them being captured by the country’s main political parties.
