"People must come first!" says Biti - name 1 occasion you have done that! Patrick Guramatunhu

“I was extremely disappointed to note that many parents have failed to pay exam fees for final exams that have been set for October 2017. In Midlands South for example, two-thirds of parents of O' Level students have failed to pay exam fees. What is even more worrying is that many have failed to collect results because they owe the school for lost text books or levies, this is criminal,” Tendai Biti told his party supporters.

“We therefore have a duty to put these suffering people first, we have the duty to put Zimbabwe first.

“Anything else including our own personal ambitions and dreams to become councillors or MPs becomes a false agenda.

“The people must come first.”

Mr Biti, you and your follow opposition politicians are in politics to in pursuit of political power and material wealth. You do not care about the suffering people and your past record speaks for itself!

The people of Zimbabwe have risked life and limb to elect you are your fellow MDC friends these last 17 years on the promise you would deliver democratic change, as you party name implied. You have failed to bring about not even one democratic change although you guys have had many golden opportunities to do so.

You can continue to bury your head in the sand and deny that the best chance to end the Zanu PF dictatorship was and still is by implementing the democratic reforms designed to strip away Mugabe’s tyrannical power and control over ZEC, Police and all the other State Institutions. MDC had the golden opportunity to implement the democratic reforms during the GNU. You guys failed to get even one reform implemented because Mugabe bribed you with the trappings of high office.

“Mazivanhu eMDC adzidza kudya anyerere!” (MDC people have learned to enjoy the gravy train lifestyle and not rock the boat!) Boasted one Zanu PF cronies in response to the public alarm at MDC leaders’ failure to implement the democratic reforms during the GNU years.

SADC leaders warned you, Mr Biti, and the other MDC leaders not to contest the 2013 elections with no reforms in place. You have been very careful in all your wittering not to deny that you were warned. You cannot deny either that it was greed that made you ignore the warning, as explained by David Coltart in his book.

“The worst aspect for me about the failure to agree a coalition was that both MDCs couldn’t now do the obvious – withdraw from the elections,” wrote Senator Coltart. 

“The electoral process was so flawed, so illegal, that the only logical step was to withdraw, which would compel SADC to hold Zanu PF to account. But such was the distrust between the MDC-T and MDC-N that neither could withdraw for fear that the other would remain in the elections, winning seats and giving the process credibility.”

Mr Tendai Biti, we all know that since the rigged July 2013 election not even one democratic reform was implemented. Zanu PF is going to blatantly rig next year’s elections just as it did in 2013. You and your PDP people are as determined to contest next year’s elections regardless of the fact the elections will be rigged for the same reason you contested the 2013 elections – greedy.

“On the 5th of August, the Alliance was launched at the Zimbabwe Grounds in Highfields, Harare,” continued Biti.

“There is no question that this excited the people.

“There is also no question that the regime and other subjective forces are resisting this reunion.

“To me, as President of this Party, I have absolutely no doubt that we must pursue the trajectory of a reconstituted old MDC under the name and style of MDC Alliance. It is this Alliance that must persuade Mrs Joyce Mujuru and others to join the same.”

The MDC Alliance will not do anything to stop Zanu PF rigging the vote; that much is crystal clear to the people. So why should the people, desperate for democratic change including free, fair and credible elections, be excited about being dragged into an electoral process they know is flawed and illegal?

It is you, Mr Biti who is desperate to see this Alliance ratified by all the other players in the opposition camp but especially MDC-T. PDP support has remained thin on the ground and we both know that if you contested your old Mount Pleasant MP seat against an MDC-T candidate you will lose.

 “If you go into elections next month, you are going to lose; the elections are done,” SADC leaders warned you, Mr Biti, and your fellow the MDC leaders at the regional summit in June 2013, according to Dr Ibbo Mandaza who was there. 

Well that advice is still valid and is even more germane today, given the SADC leaders were proven right. You are once again disregarding the advice and are determined to contest the flawed elections and, once again, forfeit the people’s chance to get the reforms finally implemented because of greed. We know that and so please spare us the insult of all this charade that you are doing it for the people.

“People first!” Yeah, right! Name one occasion you have put the people first and I will name 100 where your selfish ambition and greed for power and wealth trumped everything!