The Inter-Party Organization for Dialogue – IPOD has rejected the pedestrian quest by opposition party NUP to sign the farmer’s Memorandum of Understanding.
Last week, the NUP Secretary General Mr. David Lewis Rubongoya wrote to the Inter-Party Organization for Dialogue requesting for its Memorandum of Understanding, seeking to join an entity it had rejected three years ago.
In his letter, Mr. Rubongoya noted that well as NUP is in the constitutional court challenging the existence of IPOD. It’s operations remain legal until court decides otherwise and so NUP needed to join.
However, in the October 10th response to NUP, IPOD leadership stated that for NUP to sign a Memorandum of Understanding, the party ought to first follow procedures which include writing a formal “expression of interest” request “which then allows IPOD to consider and approve the application.”
“Accordingly, NUP should submit a formal written Expression of Interest affirming the Party’s commitment to the objectives, principles and values of IPOD as outlined in the Memorandum of Understanding.” The response further reads.
It is not clear whether NUP will now write the formal Expression of Interest as asked by the IPOD leadership.
