Opinion / Columnist
Mugabe plans to fire Chiwenga - will be shocked one has to pay for fuel but a lot worse will follow!
18 Dec 2015 at 18:42hrs | Views
According to the Zimbabwe Independent, Mugabe could soon remove Chiwenga as ZDF commander anytime between the beginning of next year and the next elections in 2018.
"Plans afoot to retire Chiwenga for political reasons," a senior government official told the paper.
"There is already a precedent set when his predecessor, the late ZDF commander General Vitalis Zvinavashe, was removed on political grounds after he was in 2003 entangled in controversial stories which involved Mnangagwa, opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, retired Colonel Lionel Dyke and plots for a political exit and soft landing for Mugabe. Zvinavashe was deployed to the Zanu PF politburo and given a political role."
It was only six days ago that Mugabe was warning the security services chefs not to take sides in the party's factional wars - or to be more precise not to take Mnangagwa's side - and he is already taking action. That was quick!
In Mugabe's Zimbabwe, one does not need to do or say anything to be in serious trouble; look at Joice Mujuru, she was booted out of the party for no other reason than that there had been a bedroom coup in State House and unknown to her, she was in the way!
Joice Mujuru and many of her supporters were all booted out of the party because her election into the VP position would have disrupted Mugabe's plan to have his wife appointed into that position. Mugabe needed an excuse to justify booting Mujuru and her supporters out and so he falsely accused them of plotting to assassinate him.
It has now been over a year since the treason charge was made and the "baby dumping" punishment was carried out and yet no one has ever been arrested and brought before the court of law charge with this serious crime. The nation should have known this was just another trumped up charge, many of Mugabe's political opponents have all had been accused of high treason. In this case it was not the CIO, Police or Minister of Home Affairs who made the accusation but a hysterical Grace Mugabe, forming at the mouth – a dead giveaway of yet another stage managed national crisis with a pathetic actress playing the grieved Lady Macbeth!
Mugabe has always ruled by fear, when he warned security services chefs last week to stay out of Zanu PF politics he was reminding them he is a ruthless boss. He was dishing out the dose of fear by the bucketful this time. Just to make sure the message was rammed home; he is firing General Chiwenga and made an example of him! There will be no court-marshal, Mugabe is Commander-In-Chief; read he is the accuser, prosecutor, judge, jury and executioner.
Besides, General Chiwenga is one of the top brass security Chefs who vowed that they will never salute anyone with no liberation war credentials – it was sweet music to Mugabe's ears at the time but now that the tyrant has other plans that is unforgivable! Times have changed; Mugabe now wants his wife Grace to be president and she has no liberation war credentials. So in firing Chiwenga before Grace takes office the tyrant is saving the General the embarrassment of having to eat humble pie!
There many other security sector chefs like Police Commissioner Chihuri and Douglas Nyikayaramba who too said they would never salute anyone with no liberation war credentials; they must be worried sick whether they too will be taking early retirement. They have good reason to be worried sick; Chiwenga is definitely not going to be the only one to be booted out of office. The on-going in fighting in Zanu PF is now so savage and ruthless, as far as Mugabe is concerned; everyone is now guilty of high treason. So before the dust finally settles and calmness restored (if at all) many, many more chefs' heads will be chopped off! The purge has only just started; the only question is who will be next!
Mugabe is like a vampire bat that blows soothing warm breathe after each savage bite!! The most notable subtle detail to be noted is that this is a rabies savage bite because in Zimbabwe's worsening economic situation anyone kicked out party, government, army, etc. will soon be wallowing in abject poverty.
In the last 35 years General Chiwenga has jumped in his car and never had to think twice where he was going because he has never paid a penny for fuel let alone anything else. He will now learn that fuel costs money. It will not be long before he too is reminded the bank loans he got must be paid back; loans that Chiwenga thought had been written off would suddenly be revived – that is the sort of thing Mugabe would do, he is very vindictive.
To General Chiwenga and all the security Chefs now quivering in their boots fearful they are the next one to join Chiwenga into early retirement and down the slippery slope into abject poverty; we the povo welcome you to the real Zimbabwe. You have played your role in helping Mugabe establish and retain this corrupt and tyrannical dictatorship. For the last 35 years you have live a life of untold luxury whilst we suffered for want of clean water, one decent meal and all the other bare necessities of life.
It is just that the tyrant is rewarding you for propping him up all these years by giving you a savage kick in the teeth and sends you to join us. Now for the first time you will understand why we have been crying for freedom, human rights and democratic change. Now you will join us in the call for democratic change!
Source - Wilbert Mukori
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