Lumumba has put himself into trouble by insulting Mugabe- Mutodi

Zanu PF controversial youth activist Energy Mutodi has declared that William Gerald Mutumanje aka Lumumba has put himself into trouble by making obscenities against President Robert Mugabe.

Mutodi said Lumumba a former G40 activist has passed statements that may find him in big trouble with President Mugabe's increasingly unpopular government.

Addressing his party supporters at a city hotel, Lumumba reportedly said, "President Robert Gabriel Mugabe, f****k you. I have drawn the red line come and get me if you want to. I am here and my name is Lumumba, Lumumba, Lumumba, am saying it three times so that you hear it clearly.

"I am a son of a brave war veteran and am not afraid. Whatever happens to me after this will happen to your children after you are gone," he added and later told journalists that he was saying this on behalf of all youths who are angry at Mugabe's long stay in office and want him to leave.

"However, his disrespectful statement has riled many Zanu PF activists who are now demanding an immediate apology from the outspoken president of a little known opposition party Viva Zimbabwe," Mutodi said.
 
"Personally I think Lumumba went too far and needs to make an apology to Mugabe and his family. We may disagree as citizens but we need to be composed and focused in our criticism to the status quo."
 
He said his statement has revealed the mentality of people in his former G40 faction.

"They are in politics for money and are easily frustrated in hard times. They do not love Mugabe and his wife as they say. Lumumba's statement has also demonstrated the increasing dissatisfaction of the government by its citizens who are now losing respect of the leadership as I have warned in my earlier post on 1 March this year titled, "WAR VETS SEEK NEW ORDER" he said.
 
"Although indications show that President Mugabe may want to leave office in 2019 at the Zanu PF congress after participating in the 2018 elections, there are anxious expectations that he announces his retirement from active politics on time before the elections so as to preserve the little that now remains of his once glamorous legacy."
 
Mutodi said Mugabe is the only one among African leaders who has managed to challenge the British and the Americans to re-think about their perceptions of the black race and the need for these two powerful countries to treat Africans as partners and not as slaves going into the future.

"He is also credited with giving land to landless blacks in Zimbabwe and also promoting education, gender equality and the preservation of African cultural heritage. However, if he continues to pay no attention to succession issues, he risks losing respect from the young generation of Zimbabweans who now view him as a stumbling block to progress and development due to economic is management, poor policies and rampant public sector corruption," he said.