There is no one blinder than one who refuses to
see!
Apologists, bootlickers and sycophants are an
obnoxious group of those who not only refuse to see the truth but, worse still,
they “see” what is not there and trumpet it as the reality and factual truth. Obi
Egbuna Jr. Simunye is one these blind bootlickers given to praising Robert
Mugabe to the high heavens ignoring the reality that he is a corrupt, vote
rigging and murderous tyrant who has made the lives of millions of Zimbabweans a
living hell-on-earth.
“For many Africans at home and abroad, when President
Mugabe presented not only Zimbabwe, but all of Mother Africa's case before the
United Nations last Thursday concerning Sustainable Development Goals, he
without question invoked the memory of three fallen yet eternally beloved warriors
the Honourable Marcus Mosiah Garvey, W.E.B DuBois and Malcolm X,” wrote Obi in
his latest article entitled “President embodies African fighting spirit”.
Why is it that nincompoops like Obi can see
Mugabe’s “fighting spirit” against the West but refuse to see how Mugabe has
applied the same “fighting spirit” to deny the people of Zimbabwe their
freedoms and basic human rights including the right to free and fair elections
and even the right to life itself!
Mugabe went all the way to New York to accuse; the
accusation was delivered with the usual the vitriolic gusto to impress the impressionable
simpletons; the West for Africa in general but Zimbabwe in particular’s failure
to achieve any meaningful development. The tyrant had already conveniently forgotten
he had just admitted a few weeks before that Zimbabwe had lost a staggering $15
billion of Marange diamond revenue for looting.
Many people have blamed mismanagement and
corruption for Zimbabwe’s economic collapse. All these years Mugabe has
vehemently denied that there was corruption and blamed the country’s economic
woes on drought and other causes but especially sanction. Even a simpleton like
Obi has to admit that there was no way the Zimbabwe economy could hope to
thrive given the seriousness of the corruption Mugabe himself had just
acknowledged is happening in Zimbabwe. $15 billion constitute Zimbabwe’s
current GDP; how can any nation sustain such wholesale economic wealth haemorrhage!
Of course Obi can see that corruption and not
sanctions are the root cause of Zimbabwe’s economic woes, he is only pretending
that the sanctions are the cause because he is paid and paid well to do
pretend.
Mugabe does not represent Zimbabwe or Africa;
he stopped doing that a long, long time ago! The people of Zimbabwe lost
confidence in him a long time ago but have failed to remove him from office
because he rigs elections. He has murdered over 30 000 innocent Zimbabweans to
establish and retain his de facto one-party dictatorship. This is Mugabe’s sadistic
“fighting African spirit” people like Obi Egbuna Jr. refuse to see and insult
the millions of Zimbabweans who are the victim of this tyrannical rule with
these denial of reality.
The Herald has Obi Egbuna Jr. Simunye as “a US
Correspondent to The Herald and the External Relations Officer to ZICUFA(Zimbabwe-Cuba
Friendship Association)”. In other words Obi is probably one of those foreign
nationals who are abusing Zimbabwe’s hospitality by joining the brigade of
Zimbabwean born Mugabe apologists and bootlickers in praising Mugabe and
insulting the suffering masses. God knows, Zimbabwe has more than its fair share
of home-grown Mugabe apologists and boot-lickers without having to import other
nations’ rejects, sell-outs and morons.
The day Mugabe’s tyrannical dictatorship collapses,
Obi Egbuna Jr and his ilk must leave Zimbabwe with nothing other than the
cloths they are wearing. They have done so much to defend the totalitarian Zimbabwe;
they will not be welcome in a democratic and free Zimbabwe; persona non grata.
There is no way that our honoured guest, Togolese President Faure Gnassinbe, would not have heard about the looting of $15 billion of Marange diamond revenue. The very fact that the looting admission is coming from the Zimbabwe regime, from none other than Mugabe himself, would mean he has no reason to doubt this is true. Even for rich and prosperous nations, $15 billion is a lot of money; our Togolese guest knows Zimbabwe is not a rich and prosperous nation and so this wholesale plunder must be a very serious matter indeed. It is just that too because $15 billion constitute the nation’s GDP or five times the nation’s $3 billion collected revenue!
ReplyDeleteKnowing all the above; how is it possible that our Togolese guest can still argue “Zimbabweans to remain resilient in the face of western imposed economic sanctions” as if sanctions are the root cause of the nation’s economic woes.
It is amazing how Mugabe has managed to school many African leaders to parrot his feeble “it is the sanctions” excuse for Zimbabwe’s economic mess even now with the mountain of evidence showing this is just a blatant lie! The people of Togo must all be hanging their heads in shame to see their leader turned into a parrot!
I am pleased that David Coltart played such a key role in the documentation of the Gukurahundi murders; his book will always be a important historic record of the madness that befall our nation and who was responsible.
ReplyDeleteColtart was right to choose "The Struggle Continues" as the title of his book because the struggle for freedom, liberty and human dignity in Zimbabwe continues to this day. It must be noted that Senator Coltart and his MDC friends had the golden opportunity to end the Zanu PF dictatorship during the GNU but wasted one chance after another.
Senator Coltart's book is a historic record of how the MDC leadership, through their breath taking incompetence and corruption, have betrayed the people of Zimbabwe. The Senator has never apologized to the people for his shameful role in this betrayal but has offered instead feeble excuses for the betrayal.
What is tragic here is how people like Obi make a big song and dance about President Mugabe's rhetoric against the West which is meant to achieve anything as it is just political hot air and yet they say nothing about what tyrants do affecting people's lives! I do not remember Obi ever condemning the looting in Marange, the waste of millions of dollars in overseas trip and health cost by President Mugabe and his family, etc. when public services are going down the tube.
ReplyDeleteWe have not always been good at holding those who have done everything to prolong the misery of others to account after the old oppressive system is finally crashed. People like Obi often end up benefiting from the oppressive system before it is crashed and continue to benefit after it is crashed by helping to set up the next oppressive system. I wish people like him can be stopped from double dipping because it only service to encourage more rascals like Obi to act in the spirit contrary to the public good!