By Staff Reporter
OUTSPOKEN war vets leader Blessed Geza Monday got a reality check of his journey after Zimbabweans ignored the call to stage demonstrations ,instead choosing to stay at home.
The gesture which is effectively a sign that citizens are not willing to give a hand in internal ruling party issues is a litmus test for Geza and his team giving rise to questions on the latter’s capacity to ignite a full scale revolution to unseat President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration from office.
Reports indicated that by midday Monday no visible action had taken place across major cities prompting analysts to speculate early failures of the uprisings.
Media reports indicated that Police mounted checkpoints on roads leading to major cities and towns on Monday, searching some vehicles for “dangerous weapons” in anticipation of planned anti-government protests.
Traffic into the centre of Harare and Bulawayo was noticeably reduced as many appeared to have chosen not to go to work and children stayed away from school.
A truckload of police drove up and down on an emptied Joshua Mqabuko Street in Bulawayo, looking for any trouble.
On the eve of Monday’s planned protests, the former Zanu PF central committee member wrote on X: “Lets fill up the streets. Mnangagwa must go. It’s for every Zimbabwean. Lets stand up against corrupt rule.”
At 8AM across Zimbabwe, there were no signs of protests on the streets.
“The call was for people to flood the streets but it appears so far Geza has achieved the opposite with many staying at home perhaps out of fear of what could happen,” a ZimLive correspondent in Harare reported.
“Geza will claim a partial victory – one man causing so much chaos and potential harm to the economy which will no doubt take a hit from the industries that won’t open.”
The demonstration suffered heavy blows after the popular opposition leader clarified that he was not part and parcel of the demonstrations last week in a gesture analysts described as ‘tactical’ noninterference.
