Nelson Chamisa Speaks on Chitungwiza Accident that Claimed 17 Lives

> 🇿🇼 RESCUING A NATION IN MOURNING This morning, our team presented an intelligence report from the tragic Chitungwiza accident.

> What happened on the 22nd of July 2025 along Seke Road must be more than just news headlines,
> it must become a sobering turning point for our nation.

> The stark reality of the cost of systemic failure — we must all take a sober pause to reflect.

> As we look beyond this tragic event, we must understand more the stories around – each name, each journey, each final moment.
> All speak of a nation where survival itself has become a horrible nightmare.

> What we have witnessed are not just human errors, man-made mistakes or technical failures,
> but also personal tragedies rooted in deep leadership failure, national dysfunction and collapsing infrastructure.

> The story of a young couple and their child immediately describes the reality of national failure and system decay.

> In Chitungwiza, a young couple on a normal day made what should have been a simple trip
> to register their child for a birth certificate, yet, that became a final moment.

> The question is: why must families travel across towns and cities to access such basic services?
> Why are such services not decentralised to local access points?

> Another story — an elderly woman travelling a long distance with their young relative to collect groceries.

> This is the lived reality of our broken economy.
> It means families have to make a long trip from Murehwa to Chitungwiza just to collect groceries.
> Travelling long distances for essentials is what millions of Zimbabweans are forced to do just to meet the most basic needs.

> WHERE IS OUR DISASTER PREPAREDNESS AND EMERGENCY READINESS?

> Where is the preservation of our national interest and national pride?

> The Chitungwiza road accident has many lessons.

> The absence of emergency facilities such as rescue cranes and cutters was the most appalling.
> I see we had to use social media through individuals to beg for a privately owned crane.

> People were crying in pain under the truck, before the crane arrived!

> Yet in such tragedies, time is of the essence.

> We must fix this!

> We will forever be haunted by the agonising cries for help from those trapped, injured, or dying…
> with no adequate emergency response equipment in sight.

> That pain, that helplessness, will haunt our collective conscience for years to come.

> And all this tragedy unfolded before we even account for the series of technical failures that we live with daily:
> • The Seke Road corridor is unfit for modern transport
> • There is a need to uplift our enforcement with regard to road safety
> to include corrective measures that are regular and consistent and increase accountability.
> • Emergency response services are under-resourced, under-equipped, and unable to cope.

> This is the Zimbabwe we are living in.

> These moments must cause us to sober up, reflect deeply, and to accept this truth: things cannot go on like this.

> We simply cannot keep normalising pain, loss and dysfunction.

> We must emerge from this reality, stronger and fortified, God guiding us through it all.~ nc