Opinion / Columnist
Mnangagwa's new brooms failing to sweep clean
09 Mar 2022 at 07:59hrs | Views
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been seen embarking on a cleaning exercise since he took over leadership through a coup from the nonagenarian Robert Mugabe in 2017.
However his leadership has struggled to make the new brooms sweep clean despite the hullabaloo that it was coming up with a brand new oiled leadership. In fact he has failed to clean the rot in his government.
People expected to see change in his new leadership but alas it was a pie in the sky.
Corruption is endemic and still existing in many goverment departments. The reports have actually doubled. There are few, if any arrests, let alone prosecution, for corruption at leadership.
Even when seeking legitimate government services, one is asked to part away with an inducement.
Corruption has become a culture now in Emmerson Mnangagwa's government. Politically President Mnangagwa has failed to attract local, regional and foreign investment to boost the country's ailing economy.
The country is currently labouring under economic challenges.
President Mnangagwa has over the past fours years managed to frustrate the development of the nation and spent much of his time commissioning buses and at one time appeared to be smart by donating buses to the army, police and airforce as if the money was coming from his pocket yet he was using state funds.
Already we have witnessed sporadic reports of political motivated violence in the current ongoing by elections campaigns where two members of Citizens Coalition for Change have lost their lives.
The new dispensation has nothing new to offer besides the old sanctions rhetoric. This shows that the new republic is ideologically bankrupt.
Since these by elections campaigns started, there is nothing new coming from this new republic besides old and tired mantra or adage that the state house is very far.
What this new republic is failing to understand is the fact that the dynamics of politics have changed and most people who are hungry for change are the young people.
So far Nelson Chamisa has been drawing a huge crowd than President Emmerson Mnangagwa whose speeches at rallies are not inspiring at all.
Zanu-PF government has failed to be apply an inclusive approach since the coup and are still glued to the old type of politics where decision making is done from the top leadership down to the lowest rungs.
Zanu-PF ideologies have failed to impact on the lives of many people in Zimbabwe neither have they improved the economic status of the nation which has been destroyed by the same people who are pretending to be trying to fix it.
In Zanu-PF leadership it has always been the scramble for power than serving the citizens.
The electoral playing field has never been even since 1980 and it is still favouring the incumbent. People thought the coming of President Emmerson Mnangagwa the electoral playing field was going to give an impetus to fresh breath of politics in Zimbabwe. Let the people give a chance to new brooms from the opposition.
Email - konileonard606@gmail.com
Twitter - @Leokoni
+27616868508
However his leadership has struggled to make the new brooms sweep clean despite the hullabaloo that it was coming up with a brand new oiled leadership. In fact he has failed to clean the rot in his government.
People expected to see change in his new leadership but alas it was a pie in the sky.
Corruption is endemic and still existing in many goverment departments. The reports have actually doubled. There are few, if any arrests, let alone prosecution, for corruption at leadership.
Even when seeking legitimate government services, one is asked to part away with an inducement.
Corruption has become a culture now in Emmerson Mnangagwa's government. Politically President Mnangagwa has failed to attract local, regional and foreign investment to boost the country's ailing economy.
The country is currently labouring under economic challenges.
President Mnangagwa has over the past fours years managed to frustrate the development of the nation and spent much of his time commissioning buses and at one time appeared to be smart by donating buses to the army, police and airforce as if the money was coming from his pocket yet he was using state funds.
Already we have witnessed sporadic reports of political motivated violence in the current ongoing by elections campaigns where two members of Citizens Coalition for Change have lost their lives.
The new dispensation has nothing new to offer besides the old sanctions rhetoric. This shows that the new republic is ideologically bankrupt.
Since these by elections campaigns started, there is nothing new coming from this new republic besides old and tired mantra or adage that the state house is very far.
What this new republic is failing to understand is the fact that the dynamics of politics have changed and most people who are hungry for change are the young people.
So far Nelson Chamisa has been drawing a huge crowd than President Emmerson Mnangagwa whose speeches at rallies are not inspiring at all.
Zanu-PF government has failed to be apply an inclusive approach since the coup and are still glued to the old type of politics where decision making is done from the top leadership down to the lowest rungs.
Zanu-PF ideologies have failed to impact on the lives of many people in Zimbabwe neither have they improved the economic status of the nation which has been destroyed by the same people who are pretending to be trying to fix it.
In Zanu-PF leadership it has always been the scramble for power than serving the citizens.
The electoral playing field has never been even since 1980 and it is still favouring the incumbent. People thought the coming of President Emmerson Mnangagwa the electoral playing field was going to give an impetus to fresh breath of politics in Zimbabwe. Let the people give a chance to new brooms from the opposition.
Email - konileonard606@gmail.com
Twitter - @Leokoni
+27616868508
Source - Leonard Koni
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