Opinion / Columnist
Either Mugabe is a habitual liar or has a criminal mind
12 Sep 2016 at 16:24hrs | Views
Africa prides in respect of the elderly subject to the elderly taking a deserving respectful role on people, listening to people and taking their views into account. Mr. Mugabe has neither been to an African squatter camp or market place where poverty exhibits itself with a view to learning except when he last sought people support against Zapu in the 1980s. The question hard to answer is if Mr Mugabe and his surrogates cabinet have ever had an official visit to squatter camps apart from destroying the camps even without alternatives for the poor citizens?
Planning has been haphazard, driven mainly by political consideration than by the passion of people safety or security. Haphazard decision to give people land on areas none designated for some other needs would be done for political expediency. A few months and/or one year later people investments in housing are put at risk and they are accused of being intransigence taking unlawful settlements on forbidden lands. This, apart from the force of violence, has led ordinary people to loose respect let alone love for Zanu and its leader Mr. Mugabe.
People, the common man in Zimbabwe had they elsewhere to go, no doubt Zimbabwe would be not only a failing state but a state of Zanu cronies and surrogates only and all other peace loving Zimbabweans having relocated. International politics is unfair and turns a blind eye to many suffering and innocent people simply because states have a monopoly on what reaches the ears of the international community.
This has enabled Mr. Robert Mugabe to rubbish any claim of people abuse by even the Zimbabwe Human Rights Lawyers Association. He has crushed masses demonstrations and committed crimes over humanity by accentuating people mysterious disappearances that have beset Zimbabwe since independence. He has caused politics of decay and corruption and patronage to eclipse culture of politics now solely, it would largely apply, related to power mongering and self-aggrandizement.
No doubt innocent citizens who are supposed to hold views on politics to themselves and express them at ballot boxes have experienced duress from both government authority and from her auxiliary agents such as the Central Intelligence Organization (CIO) and secret police force. The duress has taken forms of physical beatings in the middle of the nights for families suspected to support other political organizations, denying food supplies to suspects who do not carry Zanu atrocities upon neighbours who do not attend political rallies and many other demeaning exercises.
When Mr. Robert Mugabe denies people abuse by state securities, he is either denied full information assuming he demands for such facts by his officials, or he is a liar who tells lies with a straight face. He has of late referred as rubbish to human rights Lawyers' association findings with evidence through many social media networks showing people who are seated unarmed yet are subjected to inhumane interrogations and beatings so they can never volunteer to condemn Mugabe's police brutality publicly. We are witness to public assault on ordinary grouping of any areny persons without ever raise their voice or arms to retaliate.
Zimbabwe is now ready to challenge Mr. Mugabe to produce evidence that his surrogates army including secret intelligence and police force do not abuse the public. We of the Diaspora together with those suffering abuse at home will respond with evidence on the ground of individuals who may never access the media freely without government punishment, mental and physical abuse. The life conditions in Zimbabwe bears much resemblance prison camps for the youth who have no opportunities and individuals who are politically articulate. Political fatigue has taken over and many Zimbabweans prefer to remain silent and anonymous than throwing oneself to a gang of murderers who care little about human and people rights.
Even though government has strict laws against peaceful demonstrations, and judges lately have picked moral courage to follow law than follow Mr. Mugabe e personal edicts, there is too much literature and pictures on human abuse in Zimbabwe for the last thirty-six years with worst horrific images sufficient for a case on Zanu leadership to be summoned at the International Criminal Court and face world justice. The trauma levels caused among many Zimbabweans will have long term effects of post stress syndrome on yet many more once some significant orderliness is restored. The poor treatment of citizens permitted under the watch of Mr. Mugabe and his Zanu surrogates pauses a question of whether indeed Mr.Mugabe is a Zimbabwean and why he callously has ignored the suffering of ordinary people to this extent.
It is debatable if Mr. Mugabe stay in power is a voluntary desire or he is an extension of a system that has bound him in circumstances beneficial to only a few by strengthening poor governance and corruption practices. Perceptively the beneficiaries in Zimbabwe political rot are people like Mugabe new and younger wife Grace, army commanders, Air force Commanders, police and secret intelligence bosses are a special sectors of beneficiaries who have exploited the country resources or were used to enable certain relatives of Mr. Mugabe make personal moneys.
The state is bankrupt and cannot take it any longer yet neither Mr. Mugabe nor his party would give a clear plan to salvage a bleeding economy or are they willing to call an early election. The idea of scaling down staff in civil service, having already killed the private sector, is a sure sign of a government that is failing to think in the national interest except for those in the helm of power to make themselves richer and richer from plundering state resources.
The initiatives by Zimbabweans of various backgrounds without singling any one group to bring pressure for dialogue and open an honestly free and fair elections can be accepted as the only none violent and best democratic option the world should consider expeditiously. Unless there are secret hands intending to mess in Zimbabwean affairs like was done in Libya, common sense would dictate common sense that Zimbabweans out of their maturity need guidance and accountable financial aide to formulate Transitional Instrument to see revenge of a hateful Zanu government melted into an accountable governance.
The aim of this write-up is to engage Zimbabweans in a conversation that exposes greedy and selfishness for the pain it has caused our country for such a long time. It is the time we separate the chaff from grain in order that minds can be invested in building accountability, transparency, and Politics of development than patronage and aggrandizement. That our lack of resolve to build open governance and the desire to ingratiate with the evil of Corruption in order to become personally rich, a crime that has destroyed Africa-lack of accountability- must craftily be put to rest by a group of honesty persons of high integrity and who love mingling with people and having empathy with masses.
One fact true is that many of us have succeeded in growing Zanu into huge ugly none accountable octopus. We have sought to exploit the obvious weakness of big-mindedness of single handily dealing government as a personal item of Mr. Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace. Many of us fed from Zanu's spoils and argued in support of Zanu by virtue of benefits we received than by employing professionalism and best practices in governance. By failing to be objective and to view different angles of in putting a difference in perspectives of growth and development, we abrogated authority to abuse without questioning to Mr. Robert Mugabe.
Subsequently, Mr. Mugabe has never blamed himself for any misjudgment on governance except pick on others and condemn them. He has condemned colonialism, the western nations and aligned any opposition to being puppets of the West nations. Only Mr. Mugabe is right in Zimbabwe which leads to a strong supposing that Mr Robert Mugabe and his government are liars or smart criminals who deliberately are running down the country by in part driving as many citizens out of the country reducing opposition in the country
Mr. Mugabe has blamed judges and put many under threat till they run out of the country. Mr. Mugabe has used every trick in the textbook and got away with it. The African Union (AU) have not had moral courage to question Zanu government except reward Mr. Mugabe for his absolute canning power politics game he has played on masses of Zimbabwe by denying them freedom to information and employment of political patronage over her surrogates. The craftiness of Zanu cannot be attributed to intelligence but violence and brutality. Without these two tribute neither Mr. Mugabe nor Zanu would be in power or existing today.
Truth be told Mr.Mugabe has not only misrepresented the country but underdeveloped people killed industrial and commercial infrastructure and robbed our children of their future putting many through traumatic tress diseases. Genuinely Zimbabweans had a strangely weird and stressful three decades when a commander in chief has constantly used soldiers to work tasks ordinarily assigned to law and order police force world over. We conclude that Mr. Mugabe has much to answer to people of Zimbabwe more so why he would insist on running the government when the government keeps failing to meet paying salaries for services already offered.
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Andrew Manyevere <zimbopoitics@gmail.com
Planning has been haphazard, driven mainly by political consideration than by the passion of people safety or security. Haphazard decision to give people land on areas none designated for some other needs would be done for political expediency. A few months and/or one year later people investments in housing are put at risk and they are accused of being intransigence taking unlawful settlements on forbidden lands. This, apart from the force of violence, has led ordinary people to loose respect let alone love for Zanu and its leader Mr. Mugabe.
People, the common man in Zimbabwe had they elsewhere to go, no doubt Zimbabwe would be not only a failing state but a state of Zanu cronies and surrogates only and all other peace loving Zimbabweans having relocated. International politics is unfair and turns a blind eye to many suffering and innocent people simply because states have a monopoly on what reaches the ears of the international community.
This has enabled Mr. Robert Mugabe to rubbish any claim of people abuse by even the Zimbabwe Human Rights Lawyers Association. He has crushed masses demonstrations and committed crimes over humanity by accentuating people mysterious disappearances that have beset Zimbabwe since independence. He has caused politics of decay and corruption and patronage to eclipse culture of politics now solely, it would largely apply, related to power mongering and self-aggrandizement.
No doubt innocent citizens who are supposed to hold views on politics to themselves and express them at ballot boxes have experienced duress from both government authority and from her auxiliary agents such as the Central Intelligence Organization (CIO) and secret police force. The duress has taken forms of physical beatings in the middle of the nights for families suspected to support other political organizations, denying food supplies to suspects who do not carry Zanu atrocities upon neighbours who do not attend political rallies and many other demeaning exercises.
When Mr. Robert Mugabe denies people abuse by state securities, he is either denied full information assuming he demands for such facts by his officials, or he is a liar who tells lies with a straight face. He has of late referred as rubbish to human rights Lawyers' association findings with evidence through many social media networks showing people who are seated unarmed yet are subjected to inhumane interrogations and beatings so they can never volunteer to condemn Mugabe's police brutality publicly. We are witness to public assault on ordinary grouping of any areny persons without ever raise their voice or arms to retaliate.
Zimbabwe is now ready to challenge Mr. Mugabe to produce evidence that his surrogates army including secret intelligence and police force do not abuse the public. We of the Diaspora together with those suffering abuse at home will respond with evidence on the ground of individuals who may never access the media freely without government punishment, mental and physical abuse. The life conditions in Zimbabwe bears much resemblance prison camps for the youth who have no opportunities and individuals who are politically articulate. Political fatigue has taken over and many Zimbabweans prefer to remain silent and anonymous than throwing oneself to a gang of murderers who care little about human and people rights.
Even though government has strict laws against peaceful demonstrations, and judges lately have picked moral courage to follow law than follow Mr. Mugabe e personal edicts, there is too much literature and pictures on human abuse in Zimbabwe for the last thirty-six years with worst horrific images sufficient for a case on Zanu leadership to be summoned at the International Criminal Court and face world justice. The trauma levels caused among many Zimbabweans will have long term effects of post stress syndrome on yet many more once some significant orderliness is restored. The poor treatment of citizens permitted under the watch of Mr. Mugabe and his Zanu surrogates pauses a question of whether indeed Mr.Mugabe is a Zimbabwean and why he callously has ignored the suffering of ordinary people to this extent.
It is debatable if Mr. Mugabe stay in power is a voluntary desire or he is an extension of a system that has bound him in circumstances beneficial to only a few by strengthening poor governance and corruption practices. Perceptively the beneficiaries in Zimbabwe political rot are people like Mugabe new and younger wife Grace, army commanders, Air force Commanders, police and secret intelligence bosses are a special sectors of beneficiaries who have exploited the country resources or were used to enable certain relatives of Mr. Mugabe make personal moneys.
The state is bankrupt and cannot take it any longer yet neither Mr. Mugabe nor his party would give a clear plan to salvage a bleeding economy or are they willing to call an early election. The idea of scaling down staff in civil service, having already killed the private sector, is a sure sign of a government that is failing to think in the national interest except for those in the helm of power to make themselves richer and richer from plundering state resources.
The initiatives by Zimbabweans of various backgrounds without singling any one group to bring pressure for dialogue and open an honestly free and fair elections can be accepted as the only none violent and best democratic option the world should consider expeditiously. Unless there are secret hands intending to mess in Zimbabwean affairs like was done in Libya, common sense would dictate common sense that Zimbabweans out of their maturity need guidance and accountable financial aide to formulate Transitional Instrument to see revenge of a hateful Zanu government melted into an accountable governance.
The aim of this write-up is to engage Zimbabweans in a conversation that exposes greedy and selfishness for the pain it has caused our country for such a long time. It is the time we separate the chaff from grain in order that minds can be invested in building accountability, transparency, and Politics of development than patronage and aggrandizement. That our lack of resolve to build open governance and the desire to ingratiate with the evil of Corruption in order to become personally rich, a crime that has destroyed Africa-lack of accountability- must craftily be put to rest by a group of honesty persons of high integrity and who love mingling with people and having empathy with masses.
One fact true is that many of us have succeeded in growing Zanu into huge ugly none accountable octopus. We have sought to exploit the obvious weakness of big-mindedness of single handily dealing government as a personal item of Mr. Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace. Many of us fed from Zanu's spoils and argued in support of Zanu by virtue of benefits we received than by employing professionalism and best practices in governance. By failing to be objective and to view different angles of in putting a difference in perspectives of growth and development, we abrogated authority to abuse without questioning to Mr. Robert Mugabe.
Subsequently, Mr. Mugabe has never blamed himself for any misjudgment on governance except pick on others and condemn them. He has condemned colonialism, the western nations and aligned any opposition to being puppets of the West nations. Only Mr. Mugabe is right in Zimbabwe which leads to a strong supposing that Mr Robert Mugabe and his government are liars or smart criminals who deliberately are running down the country by in part driving as many citizens out of the country reducing opposition in the country
Mr. Mugabe has blamed judges and put many under threat till they run out of the country. Mr. Mugabe has used every trick in the textbook and got away with it. The African Union (AU) have not had moral courage to question Zanu government except reward Mr. Mugabe for his absolute canning power politics game he has played on masses of Zimbabwe by denying them freedom to information and employment of political patronage over her surrogates. The craftiness of Zanu cannot be attributed to intelligence but violence and brutality. Without these two tribute neither Mr. Mugabe nor Zanu would be in power or existing today.
Truth be told Mr.Mugabe has not only misrepresented the country but underdeveloped people killed industrial and commercial infrastructure and robbed our children of their future putting many through traumatic tress diseases. Genuinely Zimbabweans had a strangely weird and stressful three decades when a commander in chief has constantly used soldiers to work tasks ordinarily assigned to law and order police force world over. We conclude that Mr. Mugabe has much to answer to people of Zimbabwe more so why he would insist on running the government when the government keeps failing to meet paying salaries for services already offered.
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Andrew Manyevere <zimbopoitics@gmail.com
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