Presidential advisor Paul Tungwarara says efforts to resolve grievances raised by some citizens are aimed at protecting the image of President Emmerson Mnangagwa and maintaining national focus on development.
In a statement issued on Sunday, Tungwarara said it was important to address concerns being raised publicly, particularly where individuals were using social media platforms to criticise the President over outstanding financial claims.
“We cannot tolerate a situation in which individuals continuously disparage the President under the guise of claiming outstanding dues,” Tungwarara said.
“Where it becomes necessary for us to intervene and resolve such grievances for the greater good of our leader and the nation, then we must do so decisively in order to silence unnecessary noise and refocus our collective energy on national development rather than daily propaganda, recordings and distractions.”
Tungwarara said several people who previously held grievances had since reconciled with the ruling party and pledged support for Zanu‑PF and President Mnangagwa, with some reportedly defecting from opposition ranks.
“Many individuals who previously held grievances have since reconciled, returned to the fold and pledged their support to Zanu‑PF and the President,” he said.
In laymen’s language; Zanu PF is doing what is has always done - bribe its opponents and critics! Mnangagwa must have squandered over US$5 billion on bribes in the 2023 elections alone from the chicken and chips for hired povo crowd to cars for chiefs, US$ 400 000 and US$ 500 000 for all the country’s judges and ministers respectively.
Money that should be spend on the good of Rome is instead wasted on the glory of Caesar. No wonder we are failed state.
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𝗙𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗦 𝗔𝗥𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗 𝗥𝗨𝗧𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗢 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗗𝗥 𝗧𝗨𝗡𝗚𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗔𝗥𝗔’𝗦 𝗘𝗡𝗚𝗔𝗚𝗘𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧.
First, let me start by saying that I had never met or spoken to Presidential Advisor Dr Paul Tungwarara until he approached me online yesterday. During this public engagement, like a true leader, he extended a hand of reconciliation through the gesture of a vehicle, which he said was in recognition of the work I have done for the country.
He then invited me to a roundtable discussion to understand why I am publicly opposing CAB3, critiquing the President’s work, and expressing my separate frustrations regarding the government's non-payment in relation to my fight against sanctions.
We subsequently had another discussion offline, during which he explained to me that the President is not responsible for my non-payment for the sanctions work, but that responsibility lies with Kuda Tagwirei, whom was mandated to work with me.
Additionally, he informed me that he would engage the President and all stakeholders on the way forward. As a result, in the same way that talks between ZAPU and ZANU led to the Unity Accord, and discussions between MDC and ZANU-PF led to the Government of National Unity, we are going to have frank discussions and seek a suitable way to navigate our differing political positions around CAB3.
I also informed him that, contrary to the perceptions of some, I have no issue with the President, the First Lady, or the First Family. I have merely expressed the same constructive criticism on certain issues that I have raised since President Mnangagwa assumed office. And he has never taken issue with me criticizing him before because he has always been a listening President who allows open and frank discourse.
Zimbabwe is a failed state and one reason why we are a failed state is because the nation has more than its fair share of mercenaries masquerading as champions fighting for the common good! Mercenaries who have sold out the common good for the Judas Iscariot 30 pieces of silver. Whilst Iscariot repented and hanged himself Zimbabwe’s Iscariot have flouted their ill-gotten wealth. They sold out their own mother for a price and proud they had a mother to sell!
Our situation has been compounded by an ignorant, naive and gullible majority who have failed to see the difference even after 46 years and counting of being lied to, conned and dragged deeper and deeper into this economic and political hell-on-earth.
Many of the mercenaries have turned philanthropists, sharing a fraction of their ill-gotten wealth with the poor; has made them national heroes! The penny has yet to drop that the mercenaries and the ruling elite masters are not only profiting from stealing from the masses but are doing everything they can to keep the masses poor and pendent on handout.
The mercenaries and the ruling elite give with one hand and make a big song and dance about it and steal a great deal more than they give away. In Zimbabwe the mercenaries and the ruling elite have formed a formidable team the former are doing all the looting of the nation’s wealth, rubbing the common people blind, and the latter have used brute force to deny the ordinary people a meaningful say in the governance of the country.