Mnangagwa demands "security" guarantees before returning - what guarantees does povo have. P Guramatunhu

“I told the President that I would not return home now until I am satisfied of my personal security, because of the manner and treatment given to me upon being fired,” says Mnangagwa.

So you care about your own “personal security” and life? How many innocent Zimbabweans have you harassed, beaten, forced to jump out balcony and even murdered for no other reason than to establish and retain the de facto Zanu PF dictatorship.

You and your fellow members in the Joint Operation Command, a shadowy Junta including General Chiwenga the ringleader of the coup hold Mugabe hostage today, other security Chefs and Robert Mugabe himself; have ruled Zimbabwe with an iron fist. The Junta has planned and directed all the looting, vote rigging and ruthlessly crash all who dare challenge its authority.  

When President Mugabe, the corrupt and murderous tyrant the Junta had imposed on the nation all these years, turn on you, Mnangagwa, you snaked out of the country under cover of darkness. And now, even with one of your fellow Junta members led by General Chiwenga, holding Mugabe hostage you refuse to return because you fear for your life.

We want democratic reforms implemented  to restore our basic freedoms and human rights including the right to free and fair elections and the right to life itself. There is no point in asking Mnangagwa to give us his assurance reforms will be implemented before he returns and takes over as president. Mnangagwa himself has already boasted that Zanu PF will not reform itself out of power.

Mnangagwa values his own life but once he is assured of his own security the only thing that matter to him is ensuring he has absolute power, he and his Junta friends will ride roughshod over the people’s freedoms and basic human rights to secure political power.  Nothing and not even the sanctity of human life will be allowed to stand in Mnangagwa and JOC’s way in they drive to ensure Zanu PF’s continued rule.

“Kana ukarota imwe party ichitonga Zimbabwe, muka umbike doro nokuti midzimu wakurasa. Zanu PF ichatonga igotonga!) (If you dream of any other party ruling Zimbabwe, your ancestors have deserted you. Zanu PF will rule and rule!) Boasted Mnangagwa during the happier times when he was Mugabe’s chief enforcer.

How ironic that Mnangagwa should be demanding more assurances of his own safety from his fellow Junta members before he will return and yet he will return to lead the Zanu PF dictatorship which he expect Zimbabweans to accept knowing fully well it will reconstitute the same corrupt, vote rigging and tyrannical regime.

Mnangagwa has every right to demand assurances of his personal safety his President Mugabe, of all people he (Mnangagwa) knows too well how dirty and ruthless the tyrant now holed up in State House can be, after all he is the one who carried out some of the tyrant’s dirtiest   assignments. But before you return to Zimbabwe and take over as president we, the people of Zimbabwe, demand assurances from you and JOC of our personal freedoms and human rights. What guarantees do you give us that you will allow the implementation of the democratic reforms designed to end the Zanu PD dictatorship?

We want your personal security to be assured Mr Mnangagwa but we also want our freedoms and human rights assured. The Zanu PF dictatorship you left cannot resume its sinister, corrupt and tyrannical activities from where you left off; it is not going to be business as usual for you and the JOC Junta! We demand real political change; we demand the implementation of the democratic reforms; that Sir is as none negotiable as you returning to Zimbabwe knowing there is a firing squad awaiting your arrival!