Opinion / Columnist
Mai Mujuru's constitutionally guaranteed lifetime of leisure in Easy Street has ended already!
16 Apr 2015 at 13:51hrs | Views
Former VP Mujuru's life time salary and allowance guaranteed in the constitution have been stopped. Since January 2015, she has reportedly received nothing.
Zimbabwe is broke. Three and half decades of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption have taken their toll. The national cake has shrunk and shrunk whilst the appetites of the Zanu PF ruling elite have grown in leaps and bounds all clamouring for the lion's share of the cake. For years Mugabe has had to dig deep, taking the last crumb away from the poor and starving so that the elite can have cake. He would have wanted to continue to giving his Zanu PF thugs and party loyalists all their hearts desires regardless of all their wastefulness but he cannot. How can he give away loot when there is no loot to give away!
Last week parliament was adjourned earlier than it should have been and will reportedly reopen 5 May 2015 (although many doubt that) because there is no money to pay the MPs' gravy train allowances and expenses. The MPs are part of the inner most ruling elite and if their share of the loot is being cut back then Joice Mujuru, who has been thrown out of the inner circle, must have known it was just a matter of time before her generous VP salary and allowances are cut.
Well Christmas is early this year; all her salary and allowances have been cut just a month since she was fired from her post! No doubt all her other looting privileges have gone too! And the regime is not done with he; they will be after all the loot she and her late husband have amassed over the years next. Mugabe will take her and all her supporters to the cleaners.
After years of worrying not eating too much (but eating it anywhere and piling on the pounds) whilst she lived in Easy Street; here in Shit Alley, Mai Mujuru will have something new to worry about - having nothing to eat all day!
Mai Mujuru and her supporters' privileged lives of luxuries and leisure are over and will soon be forgotten. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the real world of abject poverty and despair you help created but, until now, refused to even acknowledge that it existed.
Zimbabwe is broke. Three and half decades of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption have taken their toll. The national cake has shrunk and shrunk whilst the appetites of the Zanu PF ruling elite have grown in leaps and bounds all clamouring for the lion's share of the cake. For years Mugabe has had to dig deep, taking the last crumb away from the poor and starving so that the elite can have cake. He would have wanted to continue to giving his Zanu PF thugs and party loyalists all their hearts desires regardless of all their wastefulness but he cannot. How can he give away loot when there is no loot to give away!
Last week parliament was adjourned earlier than it should have been and will reportedly reopen 5 May 2015 (although many doubt that) because there is no money to pay the MPs' gravy train allowances and expenses. The MPs are part of the inner most ruling elite and if their share of the loot is being cut back then Joice Mujuru, who has been thrown out of the inner circle, must have known it was just a matter of time before her generous VP salary and allowances are cut.
After years of worrying not eating too much (but eating it anywhere and piling on the pounds) whilst she lived in Easy Street; here in Shit Alley, Mai Mujuru will have something new to worry about - having nothing to eat all day!
Mai Mujuru and her supporters' privileged lives of luxuries and leisure are over and will soon be forgotten. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the real world of abject poverty and despair you help created but, until now, refused to even acknowledge that it existed.
Source - Wilbert Mukori
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