There is no fool like an old fool

In the early 90s in my home area in Chipinge, a Mhlanga family was nearly annihilated after a spate of deaths seized the family. It was after visiting several Sangomas and prophets that the least suspected family member was repeatedly pinpointed as the cause of the deaths. He did not have a stable mind so people never thought killing a person could ever cross his mind.

It was then that my people learnt to distrust even their own shadows. Didymus Mutasa is such a person that people have become used to ignoring, believing he is an old man who has gone out of his mind. It is no longer time to view him as such. The Shona people have an adage that goes: ukasekerera benzi rinopinda negejo muchurch.

Mutasa has been rumbling ever since he was shown the exit door with no one giving him the attention he so desperately looks for. As President Mugabe aptly described him, Mutasa is a stray braying ass. It is, however, time that Mutasa is reined for he is now running into the church with the plough.

The law is very clear on people who divulge state secrets. Thus, the law must take its course and he must face the music. It will be a bad precedent if Mutasa is not punished for putting the security of this nation at risk. As he was charged with the security of this country, we are not sure how many secrets he volunteered to the enemy. Mutasa and his colleagues have been accused of hobnobbing with the American intelligence officers at the local embassy whose chief agenda is to effect a regime change in Zimbabwe. It cannot be an over assumption if one alleges that the CIA is in possession of the state secrets that was volunteered by Mutasa.

Mutasa's colleagues in the People First must learn something here. They can share secrets with him at their own peril. Once they fall out, he will head for the mountaintop to bare it all. It is a matter of time before he let slip all the plotting that he and his cabal are accused of.

Mutasa said that he used to get tired of reading reports from the Central Intelligence Organisation that were not so good. I think the CIO had since discovered that the old man is not fit to access important state secrets, thus they gave him what he deserved. A silly report to a silly recipient was the equation.