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Is Biti defending Mai Mujuru because she is not corrupt or she is a filthy rich political widow!
05 Dec 2014 at 19:18hrs | Views
"Mujuru is an outstanding female guerrilla and is in a class of her own. She is certainly the most known and most decorated [freedom fighter] and her late husband, Solomon Mujuru, was a liberation war hero with no equal," Tendai Biti said.
"The way that she has been removed from the party leadership points to [the fact] that one has to be crazy to try to invest in a predatory country like ours."
The trouble with people like Tendai Biti is they cannot tell the woods from the trees then here and now from yesteryear.
Mai Mujuru has not been purge from the party because she is NOT "the most known and decorated freedom fighter". She has been accused of being corrupt and incompetent, amongst other things. Is Biti saying because she is "the most etc., etc." she cannot therefor be corrupt and incompetent? Or is he saying because she is "the most etc., etc." she can be as corrupt and incompetent as she wants it does not matter?
There is no question that Mai Mujuru is corrupt; how else did she earn her huge fortune!
As for Mai Mujuru's politically incompetence her political record speaks for itself. She has been in government as a deputy minister or mister for 24 years and as VP for the last 10 years; she must bear some of responsibility for all the evil committed by this tyrannical regime including the politically motivated murder of over 30 000 innocent Zimbabweans. She has sat there like a cabbage and did nothing to stop any of these crimes. "If Zanu-PF can't talk among themselves in order to settle disputes, then how will they talk to investors, and what of property rights and the rule of law? The impact is that no one can touch a government like ours, which behaves in a barbaric manner," said Tendai Biti.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! The penny has finally dropped, Tendai Biti has finally realised that Zanu PF has no respect for rule of law. May be in another fifty years Mr Biti and his MDC friends will realise that Zanu PF is a party of corrupt, incompetent and murderous thugs.
Mr Tendai Biti, Morgan Tsvangirai, Welshman Ncube, David Coltart and the other MDC leaders were tasked to implement the democratic reforms designed to dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship and restore the people's basic freedoms and rights and to deliver free, fair and credible elections. They have five years to do so and failed to implement even one reform. Not even one reform! Now we know why; they did not want the Zanu PF dictatorship dismantled because, as far as they are concerned, it is not a party of corrupt, incompetent and murderous thugs!
Corruption is certainly one of the biggest problems in Zimbabwe, the root cause behind the economic meltdown and therefore the Mount Everest unemployment rate, the 16% or 2 million now living in abject poverty, etc. To even suggest that anyone guilty of corruption should be let off the hook is to betray the millions of innocent Zimbabweans who no jobs, cannot afford even one decent meal a day, etc.; they are the real victims of corruption.
Corruption is a very serious crime and anyone guilty of corruption must be punished. In the Zimbabwe we want, no one is above the law, absolutely no one - yes even "the most known and most decorated [freedom fighter]" - is above the law.
Of course Tendai Biti may be defending Mai Mujuru to court her and her followers to join up with him and Professor Ncube to bolster their recently formed United MDC. No doubt her looted wealth would help the cash strapped UMDC; given that the donors who had funded the different MDC factions left in droves last year in protest at the MDC leaders' incompetence in failing to get even one democratic reform implemented.
Mr Biti you have betrayed the people of Zimbabwe by failing to implement the reforms and thus stop Zanu PF rigging the elections and so too has Mai Mujuru by being part and parcel of this corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship. You are teaming up now because you are both keen to get back on the gravy train; you do not care about the suffering ordinary people but only pretend to because you need their votes. You are both hypocrites; it is important that you remember that and, more significantly, that the people remember that and not be conned again!
zimbabwesocialdemocrats@gmail.com
"The way that she has been removed from the party leadership points to [the fact] that one has to be crazy to try to invest in a predatory country like ours."
The trouble with people like Tendai Biti is they cannot tell the woods from the trees then here and now from yesteryear.
Mai Mujuru has not been purge from the party because she is NOT "the most known and decorated freedom fighter". She has been accused of being corrupt and incompetent, amongst other things. Is Biti saying because she is "the most etc., etc." she cannot therefor be corrupt and incompetent? Or is he saying because she is "the most etc., etc." she can be as corrupt and incompetent as she wants it does not matter?
There is no question that Mai Mujuru is corrupt; how else did she earn her huge fortune!
As for Mai Mujuru's politically incompetence her political record speaks for itself. She has been in government as a deputy minister or mister for 24 years and as VP for the last 10 years; she must bear some of responsibility for all the evil committed by this tyrannical regime including the politically motivated murder of over 30 000 innocent Zimbabweans. She has sat there like a cabbage and did nothing to stop any of these crimes. "If Zanu-PF can't talk among themselves in order to settle disputes, then how will they talk to investors, and what of property rights and the rule of law? The impact is that no one can touch a government like ours, which behaves in a barbaric manner," said Tendai Biti.
Mr Tendai Biti, Morgan Tsvangirai, Welshman Ncube, David Coltart and the other MDC leaders were tasked to implement the democratic reforms designed to dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship and restore the people's basic freedoms and rights and to deliver free, fair and credible elections. They have five years to do so and failed to implement even one reform. Not even one reform! Now we know why; they did not want the Zanu PF dictatorship dismantled because, as far as they are concerned, it is not a party of corrupt, incompetent and murderous thugs!
Corruption is certainly one of the biggest problems in Zimbabwe, the root cause behind the economic meltdown and therefore the Mount Everest unemployment rate, the 16% or 2 million now living in abject poverty, etc. To even suggest that anyone guilty of corruption should be let off the hook is to betray the millions of innocent Zimbabweans who no jobs, cannot afford even one decent meal a day, etc.; they are the real victims of corruption.
Corruption is a very serious crime and anyone guilty of corruption must be punished. In the Zimbabwe we want, no one is above the law, absolutely no one - yes even "the most known and most decorated [freedom fighter]" - is above the law.
Of course Tendai Biti may be defending Mai Mujuru to court her and her followers to join up with him and Professor Ncube to bolster their recently formed United MDC. No doubt her looted wealth would help the cash strapped UMDC; given that the donors who had funded the different MDC factions left in droves last year in protest at the MDC leaders' incompetence in failing to get even one democratic reform implemented.
Mr Biti you have betrayed the people of Zimbabwe by failing to implement the reforms and thus stop Zanu PF rigging the elections and so too has Mai Mujuru by being part and parcel of this corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship. You are teaming up now because you are both keen to get back on the gravy train; you do not care about the suffering ordinary people but only pretend to because you need their votes. You are both hypocrites; it is important that you remember that and, more significantly, that the people remember that and not be conned again!
zimbabwesocialdemocrats@gmail.com
Source - Wilbert Mukori
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