Zimbabwe’s corrupt and incompetent leaders have a lot in
common with the snub-nosed monkeys of Asia.
By seizing white owned farms, Zanu PF leaders cut off their own noses
to spite their faces!
“ZIMBABWE’S cash-strapped government could face a US$30
billion bill for compensation of land expropriated from white farmers under the
country’s controversial land redistribution exercise that saw the country
plunge from being a regional breadbasket to a basket case,” reported the Financial Gazette.
Talk of cutting off one’s nose to
spite one’s face, well this sure takes the biscuit. So President Mugabe in his
infantile wisdom seized the white-owned farms, turned the nation from a
breadbasket to a basket case of a nation starving in the Garden of Eden and now
the nation has $30 billion bill to pay!
As if that was not bad enough,
the nation learnt in March this year from none other than President Mugabe
himself that $15 billion worth of Marange diamonds were looted in 2010 to 2015.
Minister Kasukuwere has since said shed some more light on the story when he
said that former VP Mujuru was responsible for “chunk” of the $15 billion
diamond loot.
No one who knows anything about
this Zanu PF regime would ever believe that Mai Mujuru was the only who was
looting, the whole bloated leadership is corrupt. It is no secret that the
Police, Army and CIO plus individuals like Mai Mujuru and President Mugabe himself
all had mining concessions in Marange. According to Partnership Africa Canada
said the President pocketed $2 billion from the looting of Marange diamonds in
2012 alone.
So if Mai Mujuru pocketed $15 billion in six
years and Mugabe pocketed $2 billion a year and the looting has been going on
for the last ten years, it is quite possible that over the last decade $100
billion, at least, was looted!
Sadly most of our snub-nosed monkeys will have very
little to show for the vast fortunes they stole, seized or looted, it has all
been wasted on luxuries pleasure of the flesh.
Still when it comes to who should compensate the
white farmers, without even a moment’s hesitation, it must be those who seized
the farms and were given the farms and never paid a single penny to the
original farmer of the State for them. No stone must be left unturned in the
effort to recover what they stole away from the white farmers and the misery
they brought on the nation at large. Why should the nation be burdened with $30
billion bill when those who did still benefiting from their ill got fortune.
The chickens of Mugabe's 36 years of misrule are coming home to roost first in their millions and now in their billions. Wait until the regime introduce its bond notes and it will not be long before the country is back to trillion and then zillion then off the scale!
ReplyDeleteSeizing the white owned farms was the single event that set the current economic meltdown firmly on its way. Of all the dumb things the regime has done that really was extra, extra stupid; comparable to cutting off one's nose!
Mugabe has resisted regime change by hook and by crook but I do not see how can do so now. The economic meltdown, caused by all these zillions of chickens coming home to roost, is causing serious economic hardships. The situation cannot continue like this for much longer and yet it is even getting worse the longer he remains in power.
Regime change is coming like Mugabe likes it or not. He can give up power peacefully or be force out the same way many other dictators before him have gone; either way he is going!
@ Nomusa
ReplyDeleteWhen these chefs seized the farms it was the crops, cattle, farm house, etc. they valued and would not allow the owners to take anything with them. Now they are being asked to pay for the loot they claim there was nothing of value on the farm.
I really cannot see how these chefs can expect the impoverish nation can pay for their greed when the people paid already in terms of the damaged the farm seizures caused!