Opinion / Columnist
When opposition loses sense
09 Apr 2015 at 03:46hrs | Views
MDC-Renewal leader, Tendai Biti, has unashamedly thrown in the towel on politics by secretly slipping out of the country to the United States of America for an unspecified period of time.
The Nicodemus departure by the former Minister of Finance amid his party's Constitutional Court appeal over expulsion from parliament spells the end of his wild goose chase. Being a lawyer and President of the party, Biti betrayed his fellows in the rife of a battle for survival sealing the fate of MDC Team Renewal.
As expected of all MDC leaders and former members a back pat from the West sounded better for Biti and he left.
The development follows the expulsion of Biti from parliament leaving him just a member of his controversial political party. This makes Biti the second prominent former MDC T member to wilt from the limelight and pursue other avenues.
Perhaps the former MDC T Secretary General foresaw the ship sinking and decided to jump before his political curriculum vitae recorded another failure.
On the other hand, Nelson Chamisa former MDC T Organising Secretary also succumbed to the pressures that come with politics to practise law after having been used by Morgan Tsvangirai and literary got rid of, for being big headed.
However, Biti's selfish decision leaves those who blindly followed him nowhere and betrayed. Indeed the art of opposition politics is all about lining one's pockets, as confirmed by Biti's actions.
He is not the first Zimbabwean to be called by the West on merit. It is on this point that a difference between ZANU PF and other political parties can be drawn.
In his book "Zimbabwe's Casino Economy: Extra- Ordinary measures for Extra-ordinary Challenges", Former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor, Dr Gideon Gono mentions that he was offered a job by the World Bank as the institution's Senior Vice President. Gono turned down the offer knowing Zimbabwe's hopes were pinned on him.
Bernard Chidzero once the chairman of the Development Committee of the World Bank from 1986 to 1990 also left his post to come home and head the Ministry of Finance.
Both Gono and Chidzero decided to focus on home development than run around chasing after the West's back pat. The Biti runaway is however, not surprising since he was once the West's blue eyed boys.
Opposition leadership is thus not people driven as individuals paddle selfish ambitions which saw the party splintering several times. Having been born out of betrayal, opposition politics in Zimbabwe will know nothing else except disillusionment.
The chain cannot be broken as multiple abuses of trust have been repeated habitually. Tsvangirai remains the grand betrayer though, as he was told by the Man of God TB Joshua that he will not rule Zimbabwe. It is despite this prophecy that Tsvangirai wanders around the wilderness with the children of Zimbabwe rendering them false hope.
The sooner we realize we need to develop our nation as one people the better it is going to be for the generations to come after us all.
Source - Onward Chiswa
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