Opinion / Columnist
After decades of corruption and looting Zimbabwe needs cleansing
27 Jul 2014 at 10:18hrs | Views
After decades of corruption and looting Zimbabwe needs cleansing; Mugabe must not be allowed to keep the Blue Roof mansion or Tsvangirai the Highlands mansion!
"In April National Pharmaceutical Company Managing Director, Florah Sifeku, revealed that government last bought drugs in 2008 during the Zim dollar era. Sifeku said 98 % of the medicines in public health institutions were supplied by donors and only 2%, mostly ARVs, by the National Aids Council," reported S W Radio Africa.
So the nation has no money to buy something as basic as medicine for millions of our people and for decades have had to depend on donor generosity and yet we have been splashing $1 million on Mugabe's birthday, $ 5 million of his daughter's wedding, $ 5 million of two bronze statutes of Mugabe himself, $ 3 million plus each for the eight times a year Mugabe has been going to Singapore for an eye check-up, to say nothing of the billions he and his wife have spent on all manner of luxuries including the $20 million Blue Roof mansion. This is just looking at Mugabe alone and not those behind him.
Mai Mujuru is believed to have a fortune of $3 billion. Then there is an army of the so called small fish, like Philip Chiyangwa, Minister Chombo and Minister Obert Mpofu whose individual amassed wealth is counted in hundreds of millions of dollars. Even the MDC leaders are in on the looting!
Former Prime Minister Dr Morgan Tsvangirai is refusing to leave the $4 million Highlands mansion he was given during the GNU years; he has attached himself to it like a barnacle to a rock. Other MDC leaders have publicly condemned the chaotic seizure of white owned farms but gladly accepted a looted farm as a bribe to stop them implementing the democratic reforms or otherwise rocking the gravy train.
When millions of lives are put at grave risk whilst the ruling elite are spending the nation's wealth on luxuries this nation need to express it disapproval in a pronounced and tangible way. All looted wealth must be recovered from the ruling elite and their descendants and use to rebuild the nation's shuttered economy and the lives of the millions forced to live in abject poverty and without hope all these years.
This nation must have a serious cleansing process where the obscene wealth looted from the poor is returned to the rightful owners, the masses.
After all he has done to this country, Mugabe or his family do not deserve to keep the Blue Roof man-sion and all the other looted wealth. No more than Tsvangirai deserves to keep the Highlands man-sion, his bribe price for not implementing the reforms that would have stopped Mugabe rigging the July 2013 elections!
Contact author: zimbabwesocialdemocrats@gmail.com
"In April National Pharmaceutical Company Managing Director, Florah Sifeku, revealed that government last bought drugs in 2008 during the Zim dollar era. Sifeku said 98 % of the medicines in public health institutions were supplied by donors and only 2%, mostly ARVs, by the National Aids Council," reported S W Radio Africa.
So the nation has no money to buy something as basic as medicine for millions of our people and for decades have had to depend on donor generosity and yet we have been splashing $1 million on Mugabe's birthday, $ 5 million of his daughter's wedding, $ 5 million of two bronze statutes of Mugabe himself, $ 3 million plus each for the eight times a year Mugabe has been going to Singapore for an eye check-up, to say nothing of the billions he and his wife have spent on all manner of luxuries including the $20 million Blue Roof mansion. This is just looking at Mugabe alone and not those behind him.
Mai Mujuru is believed to have a fortune of $3 billion. Then there is an army of the so called small fish, like Philip Chiyangwa, Minister Chombo and Minister Obert Mpofu whose individual amassed wealth is counted in hundreds of millions of dollars. Even the MDC leaders are in on the looting!
Former Prime Minister Dr Morgan Tsvangirai is refusing to leave the $4 million Highlands mansion he was given during the GNU years; he has attached himself to it like a barnacle to a rock. Other MDC leaders have publicly condemned the chaotic seizure of white owned farms but gladly accepted a looted farm as a bribe to stop them implementing the democratic reforms or otherwise rocking the gravy train.
When millions of lives are put at grave risk whilst the ruling elite are spending the nation's wealth on luxuries this nation need to express it disapproval in a pronounced and tangible way. All looted wealth must be recovered from the ruling elite and their descendants and use to rebuild the nation's shuttered economy and the lives of the millions forced to live in abject poverty and without hope all these years.
This nation must have a serious cleansing process where the obscene wealth looted from the poor is returned to the rightful owners, the masses.
After all he has done to this country, Mugabe or his family do not deserve to keep the Blue Roof man-sion and all the other looted wealth. No more than Tsvangirai deserves to keep the Highlands man-sion, his bribe price for not implementing the reforms that would have stopped Mugabe rigging the July 2013 elections!
Contact author: zimbabwesocialdemocrats@gmail.com
Source - Wilbert Mukori
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