Tsvangirai says they will be no retribution, urges service chiefs not to fear change

MDC-T president Morgan Tsvangirai has made an effort to reassure service chiefs and senior personnel in state organisations that if he wins they will not be under threat. He made an effort to reassure them that he will not be seeking retribution.   He mentioned that the  MDC-T did not form the government in 2008 because senior personnel on the security sector did not allow the transfer of power because they were worried.

In 2008, a large part of our fellow citizens in State institutions were reticent and suspicious about the prospect of change. The people won the election but there was no transfer of power because of the skeptics of change; those whose reticence about a new Zimbabwe cost this country the opportunity to set a new political direction.

I want to say there will be space for every one in the new Zimbabwe that I envision. There will be neither vengeance nor retribution against anyone. There is certainly nothing to fear about a free and fair election and the new political and economic order that it will engender in our country.
This country belongs to all of us and there will be neither retribution nor vengeance against any of our citizens. No one should have any reason neither to fear change nor to be suspicious and uncertain of the new dispensation that is now upon us.

More:  Read the full statement here