Mai Mujuru
is one of those individuals who should pay heed to the advice “It is better to
say nothing and be assumed a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt”. Throughout
her 34 years at the heart of political power, she has kept her mouth shut; even
when the situation demanded action, she has said nothing and done nothing.
For a year
and half after she was unceremoniously booted out of Zanu PF in 2014, she still
kept her mouth shut and kept the nation guessing what kind of a fool she is.
But as an aspiring president of the country she had no choice but come out of
her shell.
As the
leader of her new political party, Zimbabwe People First, Mai Mujuru has said
more in the last two months than she has said in 34 years in Zanu PF. Worse
still, she has removed all doubt that she is a fool!
“In the
1980s, we had Gukurahundi and the violence that took place in the country all
happened while you were in government, why didn't you speak?” Fungi Kwaranba
asked Mai Mujuru.
“Some of
us were questioning these things, why are you doing these things to our people
and People First is now looking to do things differently to save Zimbabwe,”
replied.
She did
not answer the question and so Fungi tried again. “But were you afraid of
confronting the president when those things were happening?”
“It is not
because people are afraid, there is a difference between being afraid and being
respectful,” came the reply.
“When
respect goes beyond respect it becomes fear but some end up abusing that
respect. I don't know why people get to that level when they forget about
respect and start abusing it.”
Zimbabweans,
especially our political leaders, are renowned for their total indifference to
the heart-breaking suffering and even deaths of other peoples. What makes the
political leaders’ indifference even more unbearable is that, more often than
not, it is their selfish greed that is behind the tragic and otherwise
avoidable suffering and deaths. Zimbabwe is one such case!
Ever since Zimbabwe attained her
independence 36 years ago, Mai Mujuru and her fellow Zanu PF cronies have committed
many acts of satanic barbarism against the good people of this country; from wholesale
corruption and looting that has left the nation so impoverished it has no money
to buy even the basic necessities like drugs, to blatantly vote rigging of elections
so the people are powerless to remove the regime from office right up to the
regime committing foul murder against the defenceless people for the sole selfish
purpose of establishing a one party dictatorship.
When Mai Mujuru, a senior member of
the regime for 34 years, is asked why she never said or did something to stop
all the reckless abuse of power and brutal repression; she does not apologized
for what happened but wittered some nonsense about respect.
Indeed, instead of showing any sign
of remorse over the brutal deaths of over 30 000 innocent Zimbabweans sacrificed
by the regime in the 34 years she was part and parcel of Zanu PF she was more
concerned that Mugabe abused the respect she showed him in saying nothing and
doing nothing to stop the regime’s satanic barbarism.
In February 2014 Mai Mujuru denied
that there was no corruption in government owned institutions like Premier
Service Medical Aid Society (PSMAS). It was all lies spread by those with a “regime
change agenda” she said in one of the rare occasions she opened her mouth. She
was denying the salary scandal of Cuthbert Dube, CEO of PSMAS, who was paid
$500 000 a month when the society was failing to pay its bills.
Fungi did not ask Mai Mujuru whether
or not she or her late husband have been involved in any corrupt activities. The
nation cannot wait to hear what she will have to say on that!
After 34 years in power Mai Mujuru
and many of her ZPF friends are as guilty of being incompetent and corrupt as
her former Zanu PF colleagues just because they were booted out of the later
did not wash them clean of their past. The cold indifference Mai Mujuru continues
to show to the tragic human misery she, Mugabe and the other Zanu PF members
have caused is proof ZPF is not a democratic party but a tyrannical
dictatorship in the mould of Zanu PF.
Yes, it will be interesting to hear what Joice Mujuru has to say about corruption. If she denied being corrupt then she will have some explaining to do to justify the vast fortune she and her late husband have amassed.
ReplyDeleteOver 30 000 innocent people lost their lives since independence and all she can think of is say nothing out of respect of those committing the murder without sparing a thought for the victims. We the people have let ourselves down by failing to be outraged by the tragic sufferings and deaths of our fellow citizens; this has only encouraged leaders like President Mugabe and Joice Mujuru to regard the deaths of 30 000 as nothing!
How any thinking Zimbabwean can consider Joice Mujuru a competent leader is beyond me. We are in serious trouble and picking a failed and incompetent leader shows that we are not serious about getting out of this hell!
@ Farai Mbira
ReplyDeletePresident Mugabe is “honoured” by those who have no clue on what is worthy on honour and what is not. When someone like Joice Mujuru tells the nation she did not say or do anything to protest the murder of over 20 000 civilians by a regime of which she was a senior member of out of “respect” of President Mugabe it shows Zimbabweans are not “normal” human be-ings. Normal human being would resign in protest over a violation of a cherished value or belief; if the protection of the sanctity of human life is not a cherish value then what is!
Robert Mugabe, Joice Mujuru and many of the country’s liberation war players have made a big song and dance about how they risked their very lives for freedom, liberty, justice, human rights including the right to a meaningful vote and the right to life itself. And yet they in their search for absolute power they have shown contempt for all these things including the sancti-ty of human life.
Any normal Zimbabwean would not be thinking of honouring Mugabe, Mujuru and the rest of his thugs but rather that they must face the ICC for their murderous reign of terror.
Mujuru says she returned $390 000 disability compensation she received.
ReplyDeleteTo say nothing when innocent people are being harassed, beaten and raped if unforgivable. To say nothing and do nothing when innocent people are being murdered in dereliction of one's duty as a public official to whom the victims have every right to expect the official to protect them. Over 30 000 innocent Zimbabweans lost their lives during the years Mujuru and others were in government; that is gross negligence and high treason.
If Mujuru found that her protestations were falling on deaf ears then she should have resigned a long time before the human rights violation got to the point of shedding innocent blood.
Zanu PF did not care about freedom, human rights including the right to a meaningful vote and even the right to life; all President Mugabe and the rest of the party thugs cared about was securing absolute power. Joice Mujuru and her ZPF friends were part and parcel of the Zanu PF thuggery and they received their share of the spoils; they now want to deny being part of the dictatorship because they were kicked out of the party.
They are guilty of what happened these last 34 years as everyone else still in Zanu PF!