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ZEC In Full Throttle To Frustrate a Free & Fair Election

26 Jul 2013 at 03:06hrs | Views

The issue started with police force numbers. It never required rocket scientists to know the official number of our police officers in Zimbabwe. The Salary Services Bureau had the statistics. The Ministry of Finance also had matching statistics. To every objective person's amazement, the tendered proof of the ZRP statistics was disowned amid outright rejection and ZEC stipulated its double digits to please the Master.
 
Then came the issue of police officers being made to wrestle for votes. There was a fiasco and pandemonium as the whole program was deliberately designed to create impatience just to make others go away and create room for the "wise" ones to later vote "wisely". By the end of the day, frustrated officers bashed windows in protest over the abuse. Some were arrested for their free expression.

After that emerged the issue of double votes. Reports went aflame that double-dipping was being implemented among the police ranks. Some would have to keep voting until they puked. They would keep drawing the "X" on the tired cock and its leader until it almost crowed. The situation was a fuss in that the result from such a scam would be obvious. The deliberate falsification and tampering with people's rights became a writing on the wall.

Now the fresh issue is the denial by ZEC to release polling stations. That means voters will have to make guesses on where they are supposed to be going. Imagine some having to walk from post to post to check if their names are on the polling list. This is a cruel puzzle designed to frustrate the voters as they are forced to first consult a serious prophet on where they need to go and cast their votes. If arbitrariness makes rulers so insane then this world is coming to an end. Imagine rural voters walking tens of miles only to be referred to the next polling station. Getting there they are told to try yet another and another until the day is gone and they are left tired and without having voted! This is cruel and unusual punishment to an ordinary Zimbabwean yearning to eliminate a dictatorship that has abused the nation for more than three decades.

The panic mood and mode, the threats, the fear, the attempts to frustrate voters all speak volumes of Zanu PF's incompetence that they fear has finally returned to hound them. The violence tool is now out of fashion so they have decided to use dumb tactics to rig in open day light by frustrating the voters.

With that they have also stolen all deceased party names and stuffed them in the ballot boxes in their favor. While not close to eight million voters will participate in the election, the ballot papers have been printed in the sum of 8 million. That explains a lot of calculation and open right attempts to steal a free expression of the people. No matter what, the MDCs will be coming in. There are no two ways. These Zanu PF people are just in a haywire stance and are running out of ideas as they must find school places for their children, parking spots for their cars and good banks to place their cash.

I thought the Herald and Sunday Mail together with their ZBC would be churning out enough hate and ancient monotonous lullabies to brainwash the regular docile voter. This time that seems not to be working. The internet has taken charge of people's lives. Information is travelling at a nanosecond pace. The twitter, Facebook, online publications and freed Nehanda-like radio channels have given the ordinary Zimbabwean the capacity to choose the best way forward. There are no secrets anymore.

With that Baba Jukwa has come in to spice the whole situation as he has racked 280 000 followers who in turn call and write home to share news with their fellow kith and kin without internet access. All murderers, rapists and arsonists are now known. Those who have been causing accidents are now known. There is no sacred topic anymore. Many are now fearful of their about to come fate. Some have started packing. There is pandemonium as the glorious days are about to become history.

Besides their attempts to downplay Baba Jukwa,, the truth keeps hitting home like a sharp needle piercing a heart vein. Now they have brain freeze and are running amok. They call Baba Jukwa with all kinds of vitriol. "Rubbish" "Idiot" "Son of a Bitch" (whoever told them it's a man)  That will not deter Jukwa. He is on a mission. $300 000 offer will not stop him and moreover, knowing Zanu PF, the informer could go down together woth the Jukwa if Jukwa were to be known. No one is dumb in this exercise. Jukwa simply keeps delivering the latest as is. Those who are rigging elections, those harassing and victimizing others, the strategies to steal elections and many other nefarious activities on the ground are not a secret anymore.

This is the Zimbabwe that everyone was dreaming about. We were living in darkness for 33 years. The advent of Baba Jukwa has brought a gust windfall shipment  of juicy information and everyone is now aware and alert. Now we know the truth. There is nothing to be kept away from us. From asset records to small house wives to those doing gay activities, everything is now on the table. Killers, murderers, accident Satanists are now all known.

Let us now see how ZEC will help rig the election. I promise you with the literacy capacity, awareness and consciousness among the Zimbabwean population, Zanu PF has had a run for its survival. They are sweating and experiencing nightmares as we speak. Next week this time we will be hearing more stories and there will be lots of surprises as the opposition takes over to give the country a new lease of life. Thanks to technology. You don't even have to wait for the infamous Herald to poison your mind with dumb propaganda. The online forum has the latest and has the truth. Even Herald editors now come online to hear the truth. Thanks ZEC, let's see how far you are bound to follow those instructions.


Source - Kramer Murindagomo
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