Opinion / Columnist
Whose interests are you serving Mr President?
27 Sep 2016 at 12:41hrs | Views
Dear Editor'
I was shocked when I read a story online where President Mugabe was calling for other African leaders to join him in castigating the UN for failing to make reforms to the Security Council and want the African region to pull out of the bloc soon after the UN security Council meeting in the United States.
Having been following events taking place of civil unrest in our own country where citizens are demanding a better living from your government Mr President, where some opposition parties are taking to the streets to show their anger over your misrule, and where you have responded so viciously by unleashing your heavily polarized police force on them so that they will not voice their grievances on the streets, it's so amazing to hear you can also feel the pain of being deprived of your rights. If you were a good leader practicing good leadership in your own home Mr President, the UN would have agreed long back in making the reforms.
Yes Sir, if I may ask, whose interests are you serving in this matter? How much have the Russians or Chinese paid you to threaten to pull out of the UN? Of late these have become your masters and it has also become your policy to castigate anything to do with the Americans and British so as to make your Russian and Chinese masters happy but in this case, this has nothing to do with America or Britain but the whole African continent and world at large. Please don't be selfish by putting the whole continent to ransom at the expense of advancing the interest of your masters.
Just like you have been telling opposition parties in Zimbabwe that threats will not solve anything but that there must be open dialogue platforms which will allow every party represented to voice their concerns and resolve issues amicably. The same with your cause as African leaders, just continue pushing for the reforms with the UN and one day you will reach an agreement than threatening to pull out when you know very that doing so will result in you and your inferior states losing out on all the benefits embedded in being a member of such a powerful organization. In your case Mr President your pulling out will bring a lot of suffering to the magnitude of your gigantic entourage whenever you will be attending gatherings organized by the body. Think of the suffering you will also get from your flamboyant wife who seem to be the organizer of all your foreign trips. Please Sir, we longer wish to see you getting more embarrassments from such people around you, just think well before you continue to make us Zimbabweans suffer from such ill-informed decisions.
Ba Kiki
Muchongwe, Kufa
I was shocked when I read a story online where President Mugabe was calling for other African leaders to join him in castigating the UN for failing to make reforms to the Security Council and want the African region to pull out of the bloc soon after the UN security Council meeting in the United States.
Having been following events taking place of civil unrest in our own country where citizens are demanding a better living from your government Mr President, where some opposition parties are taking to the streets to show their anger over your misrule, and where you have responded so viciously by unleashing your heavily polarized police force on them so that they will not voice their grievances on the streets, it's so amazing to hear you can also feel the pain of being deprived of your rights. If you were a good leader practicing good leadership in your own home Mr President, the UN would have agreed long back in making the reforms.
Yes Sir, if I may ask, whose interests are you serving in this matter? How much have the Russians or Chinese paid you to threaten to pull out of the UN? Of late these have become your masters and it has also become your policy to castigate anything to do with the Americans and British so as to make your Russian and Chinese masters happy but in this case, this has nothing to do with America or Britain but the whole African continent and world at large. Please don't be selfish by putting the whole continent to ransom at the expense of advancing the interest of your masters.
Just like you have been telling opposition parties in Zimbabwe that threats will not solve anything but that there must be open dialogue platforms which will allow every party represented to voice their concerns and resolve issues amicably. The same with your cause as African leaders, just continue pushing for the reforms with the UN and one day you will reach an agreement than threatening to pull out when you know very that doing so will result in you and your inferior states losing out on all the benefits embedded in being a member of such a powerful organization. In your case Mr President your pulling out will bring a lot of suffering to the magnitude of your gigantic entourage whenever you will be attending gatherings organized by the body. Think of the suffering you will also get from your flamboyant wife who seem to be the organizer of all your foreign trips. Please Sir, we longer wish to see you getting more embarrassments from such people around you, just think well before you continue to make us Zimbabweans suffer from such ill-informed decisions.
Ba Kiki
Muchongwe, Kufa
Source - Muchongwe, Kufa
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