Media Centre is doing nation a great disservice by granting failed MDC leaders public platform

I blame institutions like the Media Centre who keep granting individuals like Morgan Tsvangirai, Tendai Biti, Douglas Mwonzora who have already proven beyond all reasonable doubt that they are corrupt and breathtakingly incompetent a public platform to spread their confusion and delusions.

"We are confident we will win the election in 2018 and form the next government," said Mwonzora, to roaring laughter from the Media Centre audience. One is tempted to laugh with the audience if only this was not such a serious matter!

As MDC co-chairman of the Copac constitution, Mr Mwonzora's "motor-mouth" went into over-drive last year as he sort the nation's approval of the new constitution, promising it will deliver free, fair and credible elections. The nation approved the constitution by a staggering 95% in the 16 March 2013 referendum. The test of the pudding is in the eating; four months latter Mugabe blatantly rigged the elections.

MDC has since admitted the whole elections as a "fraud" but have never admitted that they are the authors of the fraud in that they had failed to implement even one reform although they had five years to do so and the Copac constitution was a weak and feeble constitution and not the democratic constitution the nation had been promised in the GPA.

What is laughable about MDC-T winning the next elections is that unless all the democratic reforms are implemented and the weak and feeble Copac constitution replaced with a democratic one; Zanu PF will blatantly rig the elections again. The best chance the nation had to implement the reforms, etc. was during the GNU; the chance MDC wasted because the party's leaders became engrossed in the trappings of power Mugabe laid for them and knew they would not resist and also because they are breathtakingly incompetent.

Implementing the reforms now is going to be a real tough challenge and so the nation is stuck with this corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship for months if not years to come. That is no laughing matter!

"The problems that we are facing in Zimbabwe do not affect those in a political party alone, they affect all of us," the motor-mouth Mwonzora explained. "But we now need to answer the ‘what' rather than the ‘who' is wrong, this is a noble idea (MDC-T is calling for a national policy convergence conference for parties outside government) where we can come up with policies that can then be used for developing the country by the party that takes power after the elections".

He cited joblessness, economic stagnation, corruption and capital flight that he said needed clear policy directions to tackle.

Mr Mwonzora, we all know what has gone wrong in the country, focusing on the problems and not on those responsible for creating those problems is not going to get us anywhere. The joblessness and economic stagnation were caused by 34 years of Mugabe and Zanu PF misrule. As long as this corrupt and tyrannical regime remains in power the nation will not end the misrule. We had the best chance to reform our autocratic system of government and replace with a health democratic system of government and you, Mr Mwonzora and your fellow MDC leaders wasted that chance.

MDC has never apologised to the people of Zimbabwe for betraying them; the party promised the nation democratic change but failed to deliver any change because it leaders are corrupt and incompetent. All MDC leaders are taking advantage of the worsening economic suffering of the people to make new promises of creating jobs etc. Promises MDC will never keep; throughout the GNU years the nation failed to create no new jobs but lost an average of 1 400 jobs a year according to Zimbabwe Chamber of Commerce.

All people like Mwonzora want to do win the voters' support and get back in power and the gravy train! Giving these incompetent individuals a public platform to sell their selfish agenda is serving to confuse an easily confused public and thus not helping the nation in the important search for the quality leaders needed to get the nation out of this mess!  If institutions like Media Centre cannot recognised failed leader or have no courage to move on if they do; what hope is there for my aunt and uncle in the backwaters of rural Zimbabwe of doing the same?

People like Douglas Mwonzora are corrupt and breathtakingly incompetent, they are as much a problem as Mugabe himself as they are now a serious distraction; the sooner the nation acknowledges this the sooner we can start focusing on finding the way out of this mess.