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Mugabe's Indian trip stinks- analyst
10 Mar 2016 at 12:40hrs | Views
A political analyst Budiriro Peter Moyo has said the President Robert Mugabe's trip to India for a cultural function stinks betrayal by his spokesperson and permanent secretary in the ministry of information George Charamba.
Moyo said what happened in India? Who set up who? Who organised the trip?
"If the Minister of Culture was not invited to the event or responsible for extending invitations to the event, then exactly what was President Mugabe doing, going all the way to India? We can look at it from a point of either George Charamba as information ministry perm secretary trying to show he can organise better international trips that Prof Jonathan Moyo used to," he said. "But then can Mugabe forgives such actions which now include wrong speeches and now wrong trips by his spokesman? What is the security sector saying about flying a whole president to a fake festival? What if someone mischievous had organised the trip for coup purposes - that what the mouse does when the cat is away? Aren't we living in dangerous times when a whole president is given wrong speeches and sent to wrong trips?"
He said if this trip was organised by Team Lacoste proponents then the camel's back has finally been broken.
"We must ask ourselves why George Charamba has escaped censure to this day, even as Mugabe read the wrong speeches and he is said to be in Team Lacoste and even holding press conferences on behalf od Mugabe in his absence," Moyo said. "But such kind of embarrassment of a President, flying him all the way half a world's journey to a non existent World Festival said to be smaller that Hifa has even me hiding under my blankets. No leader representing my country of birth deserves such. Even we from that country start looking like laughing stock. First Lady Grace Mugabe has look on powerlessly during the wrong speech saga but then India might just get her revved up. Beware the Ides of March."
Moyo said what happened in India? Who set up who? Who organised the trip?
"If the Minister of Culture was not invited to the event or responsible for extending invitations to the event, then exactly what was President Mugabe doing, going all the way to India? We can look at it from a point of either George Charamba as information ministry perm secretary trying to show he can organise better international trips that Prof Jonathan Moyo used to," he said. "But then can Mugabe forgives such actions which now include wrong speeches and now wrong trips by his spokesman? What is the security sector saying about flying a whole president to a fake festival? What if someone mischievous had organised the trip for coup purposes - that what the mouse does when the cat is away? Aren't we living in dangerous times when a whole president is given wrong speeches and sent to wrong trips?"
He said if this trip was organised by Team Lacoste proponents then the camel's back has finally been broken.
"We must ask ourselves why George Charamba has escaped censure to this day, even as Mugabe read the wrong speeches and he is said to be in Team Lacoste and even holding press conferences on behalf od Mugabe in his absence," Moyo said. "But such kind of embarrassment of a President, flying him all the way half a world's journey to a non existent World Festival said to be smaller that Hifa has even me hiding under my blankets. No leader representing my country of birth deserves such. Even we from that country start looking like laughing stock. First Lady Grace Mugabe has look on powerlessly during the wrong speech saga but then India might just get her revved up. Beware the Ides of March."
Source - Byo24News
