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Mnangagwa is a 'brilliant organiser who won 2013', say MP Cross - for Pete's sake, he rigged

11 Oct 2017 at 18:34hrs | Views
MDC leaders' incompetence is breath-taking. How is it possible that President Mugabe was able to fool, not just one or two but the entire, MDC leadership into kicking the democratic reforms agreed in the global political agreement into the tall grass is a great mystery? The whole purpose of the agreement was about implementing the reforms to stop a repeat of the barbarism of the 2008 elections, the MDC leaders themselves had witnessed the barbarism so they could be no excuse of them not knowing what the reforms were about.

How President Mugabe managed to keep MDC leaders away from implementing the reforms, ignoring the repeated pleas from SADC leaders who wanted them implemented, for five long years is yet another mystery!

If anyone thought that MDC leaders had learnt their lesson after the years of blundering from pillar to post; they were wrong. Ever those MDC leaders, like MP Eddie Cross, one would think have a few working brain cells keep coming up with one breath-taking blunder after another.

"So often in the past 50 years, Emmerson Mnangagwa has taken the heat for Mr. Mugabe, it was the Vice President as Chairman of the Joint Operations Command who gave Zanu PF their two thirds majority in 2013 and returned Mr. Mugabe to State House for another 5-year term," the MP tells us.

"An effective, even brilliant organizer he has held the State captive for Zanu PF. One of the very few Zanu PF Ministers whose hands are relatively clean of corruption he has survived in the Shark Tank – but now is under sustained and coordinated attack."

For Pete sake Eddie! Zanu PF rigged the 2013 elections! We all know how many Zimbabweans were denied the opportunity to register to vote, nearly one million of those who did register failed to vote because their details were posted in another constituency other than the one they expected, we all saw hooded Zanu PF youths who were bussed from one polling station to the next casting multiple votes, etc.

We know many of the vote rigging dirty tricks would have been uncovered if the regime had produced a verified voters' roll for the elections. The regime is required by law to release a verified voters' roll a month before voting day, at the latest. The regime failed to produce a voters' roll even to this day!

VP Mnangagwa has played a leading role in the vote rigging not just in 2013 but in the past elections too. How can such blatant abuse of power, resources and trust for selfish gain be worthy of praise?

VP Mnangagwa was a key player in the Gukurahundi massacre and the politically motived murders that have been the hallmark of the Zanu PF dictatorship. Over 30 000 innocent Zimbabweans have been murdered in cold blood and Mnangagwa's hands are red with blood.
 
"Many will argue that those who live by the sword will die in the same way, but still it's a tough call for a man whose whole life has been dedicated to his Party and the State President, even though he knows full well, that the President, more than any other person, is at the very centre of our problems and must go or the country runs the risk of either armed conflict, a coup or simply becoming a failed State," continued Eddie Cross.

Emerson Mnangagwa is a vote rigging and murderous thug; for anyone, much less a leading public official like an MP, to even suggest that he is suitable material to hold any public office much less the highest office in the land is absurd!

The people of Zimbabwe risked life and limb to elect the likes of MP Cross into power on the understanding that MDC would bring about democratic changes, as the party's name implies. The party has failed to bring about even one democratic change in all its 17 years, 5 of which they were in the GNU, in politics. Is it not bad enough that the likes of MP Cross have allowed Zanu PF back into power through the back door, first, by failing to implement the democratic reforms and now by insisting in contesting flawed and illegal elections. Now, throw hot chilli power into our eyes, Eddie Cross is even campaigning for the election of Zanu PF thugs!

The people of Zimbabwe have risked life and limb for a democratic Zimbabwe where everyone enjoy all the freedoms and human rights including the right to free and fair elections and the right to life itself. It is depressing that the political leaders, on both side of the divide, has all proven to be hopelessly incompetent and, as soon as they got into power, have all mutated from the liberator to oppressor.

MP Eddie Cross you are in power to remove Mnangagwa and end the Zanu PF dictatorship and not there to endorse the next dictators.


Source - Nomusa Garikai
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