There two things one can be certain Hopewell
Chinono will do without failure; number one, he will say one thing one minute
and then contradict himself the next minute one only to continue with his
narrative in which he will put emphasis on one point of view, as if that is the
proven historic fact.
Number two, in his spider’s web narrative he
will consistent distort historic facts to portray Emmerson Mnangagwa as total
innocent by stander in the middle of all the chaos, political intrigue and murders
that have been going in Zanu PF of the pre-November 2017 coup. The reader is
left in no doubt the post-coup Zanu PF led by Mnangagwa is totally different
from what went on before, devoid of the corruption, vote rigging, the economic
recovery is a certainty, etc., etc.
The national revival of the post-coup era, the
new dispensation, is everywhere and as invigorating as the first rains breaking
the long drought!
“Here in Zimbabwe, elections have been a
concerted fight against the ruling party which has been retaining power through
electoral fraud, violence, intimidation and vote buying since 2000. However,
these things have been located, characterized and put squarely on Robert Mugabe’s
door as the Commander in Chief and the man who ran an imperial presidency,”
wrote Chinono in Nehanda Radio.
“He has been able to do this because he had an
efficient team around himself which included those in the current government
and G40.”
In one sentence Chinono says all the blame for
the electoral fraud, etc. must all be laid on “imperial” Mugabe’s door. In the
very next sentence Chinono tells us it was the “efficient team” around Mugabe
that carried out the electoral fraud, violence, etc.
“How will the electorate respond to a Zanu PF
without Robert Mugabe is the main question which will soon be addressed by the
electorate themselves?” asks Chinono.
“So, the exact outcome of the forthcoming
election is unknown yet, more so because the analytical work has been bogged
down into partisan narrative and dishonest insights.”
Well this must be a rhetorical question since
the last thing Chinono told the reader was that Mugabe had a “efficient team” around
him and some of the members of the same team are in the “current government”
led by President Mnangagwa. The answer is obvious, the “efficient team” will
carry out its usual tasks of electoral fraud, violence, etc. as efficiently as
before!
It must be added here that the man who has led
this “efficient team” of men and women who have carried out the electoral
fraud, violence, etc. is none other than Emmerson Mnangagwa himself.
As for whether the “efficient team” could
accomplish anything of substance without the “imperial” Mugabe? The very fact
that the team very successfully staged the November 2017 coup against Mugabe
himself, settles that matter beyond debate!
So, why should the outcome of this year’s
election result be in any doubt; another landslide victory for Zanu PF! Indeed,
Chinono confirms this in his next sentence!
“What is known is that the party to beat is
still the ruling Zanu PF because of its power of incumbency and an assortment
of state control mechanism such as the military and its state security cousins,”
he continued.
“These institutions were built out of the party’s
liberation war structures and they remain loyal to the party first and
government thereafter.
“So this is a reality that we will live with
until the liberation generation is no longer with us. We can shout and sing all
we want about how it’s unprofessional, but that is the reality we live with, a
reality that manifested itself in all African countries that had liberation
movements with military wings.”
Zanu PF’s corrupting influence on Army, Police
and CIO making these key state institutions “loyal to the party first and
government thereafter” is the very heart and soul of Zimbabwe’s cursed culture
of political violence. The Police have turned a blind eye to Zanu PF inspired
political violence out of party loyalty and thus putting the party thugs above
the law.
Indeed, the Police, Army and CIO have all been
actively involved in politically motivated violence making a total mockery of
their statutory duties to maintain law and order and defend the people.
Unless the country implements the democratic
reforms designed to severe Zanu PF’s corrupting influence over not only the
security service sector but also of ZEC, Judiciary, etc.; Zimbabwe will never
ever end the scourge of electoral fraud and violence and hold free and fair
elections.
Hopewell Chinono’s suggestion that Zanu PF’s corrupting
influence over the Army, Police and CIO can be excused on the grounds that “institutions
were built out of the party’s liberation war structures” must be dismissed with
the contempt it rightly deserve. Zimbabwe is not the only nation to emerge from
a liberation struggle; other nations done the same and yet they have a
competent, effective and none partisan Police force, etc.
President Mnangagwa has promised free, fair and
credible elections and yet he has pointedly refused to implement the democratic
reforms necessary to ensure free elections. rigging and Zanu PF’s corrupting influence on
State institutions like the Police, ZEC, etc. and refusal to implement the
democratic reforms designed to end it is inexcusable.
If President Mnangagwa does not have the
political will to implement the reforms then he also lacks the vision to see
that implementing the reforms is the licence the country has been dying for out
of the political and economic hell-hole Zanu PF landed us in. He can be certain
of one thing, right now - the nation will find someone with the political will
and vision to do the right thing!
If President Mnangagwa does not implement the
democratic reforms to ensure free and fair elections then he cannot expect the
international community to endorse the process as free and fair. We need the
elections declared null and void to clear the deck for a new administration
that will implement the democratic reforms, hold free and fair elections and finally
get the nation out of this mess!
Hopewell Chinono, ED's answer to Adolf Hitler's Josef Goebel, with the notable difference that Goebel's propaganda has some thread of truth unlike Chinono's stuff which is nonsense from start to finish.
ReplyDelete"Robert Mugabe spoke about how the state security intelligence organization, CIO, and the police were, in his own words, "completely neutralized" by the army in November when he was forced out," Chinono writes.
"This is the same state security agencies that Mugabe had used to brutalize citizens and subdue them by removing their right to constitutionalism and yet today he wants us to sympathize with him for not being able to have used them once more in November 2017."
This is nonsense because every Zimbabwean knows that the army has played its role together with the CIO and Police in the harassment, beatings, rape and political murders including the mass murder of Gukurahundi. It was the Army's Fifth Brigade led by none other than VP Chiwenga and now Minister Perrance Shiri who spearheaded the Gukurahundi massacre. President Mnangagwa was heavily involved in the Gukurahundi, the Operation "Mavhotera ani" (Whom did you vote for!) of 2008 and all the vote rigging and violence that have taken place all these years.
It is pure fiction to pretend the November 2017 coup was conducted by those who value constitutionalism and the rule of law. The coup was one hyena fighting another and to us ordinary Zimbabweans Lacoste or G40 were all as indistinguishable as the two hyenas to a goat!
"If I were Mnangagwa, I would not respond to anything that Mugabe said," advised Chinono.
Frankly there is nothing Mnangagwa can say or do now, he is screwed! Mnangagwa was going to rig the coming elections, as he has done countless times in the past 37 years. He was cocksure of getting away with it with the usual, "Where is the evidence of vote rigging?" He will not dare say that now, not after Mugabe has stepped back on the political stage.
Mnangagwa knows that Mugabe and Jonathan Moyo know exactly how he is rigging the elections and the two would love to tell the world and expose the regime for the vote rigging thugs they are! Mugabe is going to have the last laugh and there is nothing Mnangagwa and his military Junta can do about it. Nothing! They are sitting ducks!