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Open letter to Zimbabwe President, cde ED Mnangagwa
29 Dec 2017 at 10:21hrs | Views
Dear President ED Mnangagwa
Initially let me take this rare opportunity to congratulate you His Excellency for being the second executive president in a free Democratic Zimbabwe.
It goes without saying that your ascendance to the helm of the Zimbabwean government was as a result of your unparalleled diligence, unremitting courage and matchless loyalty to your duties. It is open secret that the entire nation is looking up to you with profound curiosity for for the eonomic turn-around that they have yearned for decades and l personally have confidence in you. l can go on and on in my complimentary song in hailing your deserved capabilities, however, the main thrust of this letter is simply a plea, not quite new perhaps, to bring your attention to the plight of the topical baby elephants of Zimbabwe .
Your Excellency Sir, it is with deep regret that people wake up to some astonishing and disturbing news of the exportation to foreign countries, of the once captured baby elephants of Zimbabwe. I need not elaborate on the social and psychological negative effects that this seemingly uncalculated practice will have on both the mother elephants, from which the babies in question were somehow cruelly separated, and the captured baby elephants themselves.
Your Excellency it is no doubt that this action is disenfranchising Zimbabweans of their cherished heritage and birth right. Future generations will be subjected to mere images of these charismatic and iconic wild animals, instead of a spectacular view of the same, live, as this deplorable exercise threatens this wildlife with extinction.
For a country that has recently hit headlines globally for the historical and clinically executed transfer of power from the former president, R. G. Mugabe to you Sir, ED, as you are affectionately known, surely it would be, in my view, an act of incompetency to try to source funds for the economy, amongst other measures, through the exportation of our heritage, the baby elephants. Those who want to see our wild animals should just come to Zimbabwe and we benefit in terms of foreign currency.
Your Excellency Sir, the image of our country cannot be besmirched solely on the grounds of, for whatever reasons, kidnapping and exporting baby elephants. There has been an outcry globally by some animal organisations over the same issue before you were president. l am therefore confident that, due to your pragmatism ,wisdom and courage, you will give this matter the attention that it deserves.
Your Excellency, all we wish for, from you, is the assurance that the capture of baby elephants and some other wild animals by the government of Zimbabwe will be halted .
I wish you a prosperous new year.
Sincerely and with gratitude,
Kenesias Dambakurima.
Initially let me take this rare opportunity to congratulate you His Excellency for being the second executive president in a free Democratic Zimbabwe.
It goes without saying that your ascendance to the helm of the Zimbabwean government was as a result of your unparalleled diligence, unremitting courage and matchless loyalty to your duties. It is open secret that the entire nation is looking up to you with profound curiosity for for the eonomic turn-around that they have yearned for decades and l personally have confidence in you. l can go on and on in my complimentary song in hailing your deserved capabilities, however, the main thrust of this letter is simply a plea, not quite new perhaps, to bring your attention to the plight of the topical baby elephants of Zimbabwe .
Your Excellency Sir, it is with deep regret that people wake up to some astonishing and disturbing news of the exportation to foreign countries, of the once captured baby elephants of Zimbabwe. I need not elaborate on the social and psychological negative effects that this seemingly uncalculated practice will have on both the mother elephants, from which the babies in question were somehow cruelly separated, and the captured baby elephants themselves.
Your Excellency it is no doubt that this action is disenfranchising Zimbabweans of their cherished heritage and birth right. Future generations will be subjected to mere images of these charismatic and iconic wild animals, instead of a spectacular view of the same, live, as this deplorable exercise threatens this wildlife with extinction.
For a country that has recently hit headlines globally for the historical and clinically executed transfer of power from the former president, R. G. Mugabe to you Sir, ED, as you are affectionately known, surely it would be, in my view, an act of incompetency to try to source funds for the economy, amongst other measures, through the exportation of our heritage, the baby elephants. Those who want to see our wild animals should just come to Zimbabwe and we benefit in terms of foreign currency.
Your Excellency Sir, the image of our country cannot be besmirched solely on the grounds of, for whatever reasons, kidnapping and exporting baby elephants. There has been an outcry globally by some animal organisations over the same issue before you were president. l am therefore confident that, due to your pragmatism ,wisdom and courage, you will give this matter the attention that it deserves.
Your Excellency, all we wish for, from you, is the assurance that the capture of baby elephants and some other wild animals by the government of Zimbabwe will be halted .
I wish you a prosperous new year.
Sincerely and with gratitude,
Kenesias Dambakurima.
Source - Kenesias Dambakurima
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