We must raise not one single cheer in support the war
veterans’ call for President Mugabe to resign because only to impose another tyrant.
We want the tyrant to go and the whole dictatorship too so that we can have a
democratic system of government and the next president is elected by the people
is a free, fair and credible election. These are two parallel, in so far as we
both want the current dictator to go, but ideological opposed and conflicting agendas.
These war veterans are fighting to remove one
corrupt and murderous tyrant; they imposed the tyrant on us and today they are
fighting to remove him but only to impose another tyrant in his place. These
war veterans’ mentality has not changed one bit; they still believe they alone
are the “stockholders of Zimbabwe” whilst we are “stakeholders who come and go”.
As the stockholders, they believe they have the right withhold our right to a
meaningful vote and have even use brute violence to deny us the vote and impose
their political will, a veto.
As long as these rogue war veterans continue to
hold on to the belief they are special and deserve a veto they are not welcome
in the camp of the democrats.
“The MDC would like to whole-heartedly thank and
salute war veterans for publicly acknowledging that President Robert Mugabe has
outlived his relevance and as such, he should immediately proceed to resign. As
a social democratic political party, the MDC has always applauded the patriotic
and selfless role that was played by thousands of gallant sons and daughters of
the soil in fighting the racist colonial settler regime ultimately leading to
our independence as a sovereign republic on April 18, 1980,” wrote MDC-T spokesman
Obert Gutu.
“We now call upon President Mugabe to take heed of
the very clear advice that he has been freely given by his erstwhile comrades, the
war veterans. Mugabe remains the single biggest threat to Zimbabwe's national
political stability as well as economic prosperity.”
This is the shortsighted political opportunism and
incompetence the nation has come to expect from MDC; the same opportunism and
incompetence behind MDC’s failure to implement even one democratic reform during
the GNU. Sadly, they have learnt nothing from the past and so they are at it
again now.
During the GNU, Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC
friends were tasked to implement the democratic reforms necessary to stop
President Mugabe rigging the next elections. They are five years to do this and
yet failed to get even one reform implemented.
President Mugabe entrapped Tsvangirai et al with gravy
train good-life plus the $4 million Highlands mansion for Tsvangirai; proof, so
the MDC leaders thought, Mugabe had accepted them as bona fide members of the
country’s highly privileged ruling elite. They kicked the reforms into the fire
and made sure they were reduced into ashes, they knew implementing the reforms
would have jeopardized their continued ruling elite membership!
Boy-oh-boy! Tsvangirai and MDC friends were really
shocked when President Mugabe blatantly rigged the July 2013 elections and
kicked them off the gravy train. Some MDC leaders were so desperate to keep their
gravy train seats they reportedly begged President Mugabe to give them any
role, according to Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Dr Misheck Sibanda.
It is the same naïve and political opportunism that is behind MDC-T’s praise of
the war veterans today.
The rogue war veterans Gutu is praising today have
been the vanguard of President Mugabe’s tyrannical rule since 2000 to February
this year when he tear-gassed them and hosed them down with water cannons. We
are fighting to end tyranny and replace it democracy and good governance and they
are fighting to remove one tyrant so they can impose another tyrant. These are
two parallel but opposite agendas.
If we come out today in support of the war veterans’
removal of one tyrant knowing fully well their plan is to impose another tyrant
we will have no cause to complain after they have imposed the second tyrant.
It is the economic meltdown, more than the demands
of a totally discredited group of thugs, that is finally forcing President
Mugabe and his Zanu PF cabal to accept political change. We, the people of
Zimbabwe, must be absolutely clear that kind of political change we after is the
end of this dictatorship and the creation of a healthy and functional democracy
in its place.
We must make is absolutely clear that we totally
reject the proposed political fudge by a bunch confused and egotistic war veteran
lunatics seeking to save the corrupt and tyrannical one-party dictatorship by swapping
one dictator for another. One has to
remind the impressionable MDC village idiots in Harvest House applauding the rogue
war veteran thugs that the nation is paying dearly for the idiots’ foolishness
during the GNU, they must not compound the situation.
Some people called for MDC leaders to resign and be
banished from public life soon after the rigged July 2013 elections. Now I
accept that was the wise thing to do; as a nation we have done ourselves a
great disservice by trying to recycle leaders with a proven track record corruption
and incompetence. MDC leaders have sold-out before and they will do so again
given half a chance!
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