Something has gone wrong President Mugabe

Something has gone wrong. We used to ululate and cheer when our President RG speaks. "Shame, shame, shame" Mugabe tells U.S. and Britain.  

"Shame, shame, shame to the United States of America. Shame, shame, shame to Britain and its allies, Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans, so are its resources. Please remove your illegal and filthy sanctions from my peaceful country."

Long ago, such utterances would have gone so well with us, the liberated, the born frees, the independent Zimbabweans.

We would boast and say "Our President is educated." Not anymore! Not anymore! Not anymore!

How can we applaud, clap hands and praise our President when our children are going to bed on empty stomachs; when our unemployed youth are roaming the streets without a bright future? We are struggling to send our children to school. Corruption is rampant. Our society has broken down. Our economy collapsed a decade ago.... we are just hanging on. Our judicial system is adulterated. Our politics of patronage has been an albatross. The poor are daily exploited by the few rich elite. Our meagre wages is peanuts and cannot see us through to the next pay day.

How can we even care to listen to His Excellency when we do not have electricity and running water in our houses? We have now resorted to drinking sewage contaminated water from the water holes we dig in our gardens. If we could feed on rhetoric only, we all would be well nourished. Our children would be attending the most prestigious schools in the world. Our youth would be attending the best universities in the world and our mothers will never tire from ululating and praising His Excellency in all earnest.

"Our small and peaceful country is threatened daily by covetous and bigoted big powers whose hunger for domination and control of other nations and their resources knows no bounds," he said.

He said that if the sanctions were intended to unseat him from power "the results of the recent national elections have clearly shown you what they can do."

I do not support America and Britain's interference and aggression, but, so far, since our political independence, the former colonial powers have not yet exploited us from our resources. We discovered diamonds a decade ago, yet, we are still poor and the majority of Zimbabweans are still living in abject poverty; unemployment is at an unprecedented level.

"It appears that when the USA and its allies speak of democracy and freedom they are doing so only in relative terms," Mugabe said.

"Zimbabwe, however, refuses to accept that these Western detractors have the right to define democracy and freedom for us."

We paid the ultimate price for it and we are determined never to relinquish our sovereignty and remain master of our destiny. Zimbabwe will never be a colony again.

Yes, Zimbabwe will never be a colony again, Mr. President, but poor Zimbabweans are enslaved and impoverished in their own sovereign state. Yes, Mr. President, you very well know that more than three million of your citizens fled your "peaceful country."

Why? These are the issues we want to see addressed, Mr President. Before we talk of transparency and accountability in the Security Council, let us talk of transparency in your own government.  Does it have to take a child, Mr. President, to tell the whole world that the emperor has got no clothes?