“I now
realise that corruption is deep-rooted. I thought that by pronouncing that
let’s fight corruption those who are corrupt will fear and stop; it’s not like
that. It’s so rooted that you have to fight it from A to Z.” admitted President
Mnangagwa in Independence Day interview with ZBC.
In 2016 Mugabe
had admitted the country was being “swindled” out of US$15 billion in diamond
revenue. He never arrested even one diamond swindler. When Mnangagwa took over
from Mugabe following the November 2017 military coup, he had there would be “zero
tolerance on corruption”.
We know the
loot has continued to this day because the mining is still going on 24/7 and
yet collected government revenue has at “1/6 of expected revenue”, former Finance
Minister Patrick Chinamasa told parliament last time the regime reported on the
matter.
So after a year and a half in office, Mnangagwa
too, just like Mugabe, has failed to arrest even one swindler. What a feeble excuse
for his shocking failure. He is only “NOW realising that corruption is
deep-rooted” when corruption has grown and spread these last 39 years from an
irritating cough into the killer cancer today. He has a senior member of the
Zanu PF regimes that have governed the nation and done nothing to end the
corruption. Nothing!
The truth is Mnangagwa will never
ever stamp out corruptions because corruption is so deep rooted it includes
most, if not all, of the Zanu PF ruling elite including VP Constantino Chiwenga
and President Mnangagwa himself. We all know that VP Chiwenga did not build his
C&M palatial mansion, his vast business empire, bought his fleet of cars,
bought the 45 gold watches, etc., etc. from the Commander’s wages alone!
President Mnangagwa is believed to be
one of the richest individuals in Zimbabwe. He is one of the senior Zanu PF
leaders named in the UN report as the foreigners behind the wholesale looting of
resources in the DRC during the civil war in that country.
It is hard enough for the squeaky clean
to stamp out corruption; it is near impossible for those who have profited and
continue to profit from corruption to stamp it out! What makes our situation
particularly annoying is that Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF cronies have rigged
elections to stay in power against the people’s democratic will so they can
loot.
Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF junta rigged last
year’s elections and surprise, surprise, the looting has continued. “I now
realise that corruption is deep-rooted!” Yes corrupt is deep-rooted but so too
is Zanu PF’s vote-rigging skills.
So if we are ever going to uprooting Zimbabwe’s
deep-root corruption then we must first uproot the Zanu PF dictatorship and
cure ourselves of the vote-rigging curse. Zanu PF has no mandate to govern
given the party blatantly rigged the July 2018 elections. The party must step
down to allow the appointment of an interim administration whose principle task
will be to implement the democratic reforms designed to stop Zanu PF rigging
elections.
A competent government elected in free, fair
and credible elections and freed of the Zanu PF dictatorship baggage will
confront and deal with corrupt, mismanagement, lawlessness and all the other
economic and political problems that have bedevilled the nation.
“However, I am happy that you find
people who support the fight against corruption in all these institutions. In
the police, not everybody is corrupt; in prosecution institutions, not
everybody is corrupt; in the judiciary, not everybody is corrupt,” continued
Mnangagwa.
“So because of that we are gaining
traction slowly, not as speedily as I had expected. As you realise, there are so
many cases of corruption now in the courts.”
Nonsense! There is not one case of a
diamond swindler in the court. Not one! And so the country will continue to
lose billions of dollars every month in diamond revenue alone!
Zimbabwe is standing right on the
edge of the precipice with the country’s economy in total meltdown. ¾ of our
people now living on US$30 per month or less, basic services such as supply of
clean water and health care have all but collapse, etc. The country is looking
for decisive and urgent action to end such man-made problems as corruption and
end the economic crisis a.s.a.p. Mnangagwa is not going to end corruption; how
can he, when he is the godfather of corruption!
Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF cronies did
not rig last year’s elections so they can end vote rigging, corruption, etc.
and dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship the system that has kept them in power
all these last 39 years. They rigged the elections to make sure the corruption
and the dictatorship remain in place untouched.
The only way to end corrupt,
mismanagement, restore good governance is by forcing Mnangagwa and his
illegitimate regime to step down. There is no other solution!
The people of Sudan have rejected the
removal of Omar Al-Bashir with a military regime led by the former dictator’s
cronies. They are demanding a civilian interim administration in which even
those opposition politicians who had worked with Al Bashir will have no role.
We, in Zimbabwe should have done the same thing following the November 2017
removal of Mugabe!
Mnangagwa has proven beyond all doubt that he is just as corrupt,
incompetent and tyrannical as Mugabe. His so called “new dispensation, the
Second Republic” are nothing but the flip side of the same Mugabe coin!
“I now realise that corruption is deep-rooted. I thought that by pronouncing that let’s fight corruption those who are corrupt will fear and stop; it’s not like that. It’s so rooted that you have to fight it from A to Z.” said Mnangagwa.
ReplyDeleteHe promised "zero tolerance to corruption" when he succeeded Mugabe and now one and half years later he has failed to arrest even one of the swindlers Mugabe said looted $15 billion! How can he arrest any of the corrupt leaders when he is the godfather of corruption!
Mnangagwa did not rig last year's election to end corruption but to make sure corruption does not end! And this is exactly what has happened.
Cry My Beloved Country started this petition to All the Indigenous citizens of Zimbabwe and international sympathisers and 1 other President Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe promised that his government will start compensating all former white commercial farmers whose farms were taken away from them during the Mugabe era.
ReplyDeleteThere are three issues you have completely missed here:
When push comes to shove the majority of the millions of ordinary Zimbabweans now living in abject poverty and starving would rather have the white farmers still on the land and the nation booming that the Zanu PF thugs who seized the farms triggering the country’s economic meltdown and starvation.
All Zimbabweans took pride and benefited in the nation being the breadbasket of the region and there is shame and suffering for all now we are the basket case of a failed state.
The white farmers are being compensated for the infrastructure and asset they made and not for the land. Why should the taxpayer foot the bill when those who benefited from the infrastructure and asset are there and should be the one to pay.
I have heard of double dipping but this takes the biscuit, Zanu PF thugs benefited from seized farms at the expense of the ordinary people and now the later are being asked to pay the white farmers for something the thugs got! Where is the justice in that! This is so because we have thugs who have done as they pleased for the last 39 years.
The greatest challenge for Zimbabwe is not with the white farmers or anyone else but with the Zanu PF thugs who have denied the people a say in the governance of the country plunging the nation from one crisis into another. Send out a petition demanding that Zanu PF should step down because the party has no mandate to govern and millions will sign it. FOCUS!
LONG-suffering Zimbabweans should brace for even tougher economic times ahead, following last week's surprise announcement by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube that the country would have yet another currency within a year - a move experts say will drive up the prices of basic goods and also cause shortages.
ReplyDeleteThe warning comes as most big supermarkets and other retail shops around the country have hiked the prices of basic consumer goods - sharply raising the cost of living for ordinary citizens.
Ncube's announcement, which one analyst described as "a bolt from the blue" yesterday, was made hardly three months after the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) had introduced the RTGS dollar, together with an interbank market which allows the formal trading of foreign currency by banks.
Business leaders and political analysts who spoke to the Daily News said Ncube's announcement, which he made in the United States where he was attending International Monetary Fund (IMF) meetings, undermined the confidence that the government was desperately trying to build.
A Treasury insider also bemoaned what he called Ncube's "tendency to surprise the markets and create unnecessary confusion".
"Undermining confidence has negative implications on inflation, prices and the exchange rate. Talking about a local currency at the moment is premature as we already have an RTGS dollar.
"In this day and age of moving towards a cash-lite society, concentrating on a physical currency is retrogressive," the insider added.
When Professor Mthuli Ncube was appointed Minister of Finance most people were please the nation’s economic affairs were in the hands of a technocrat whom, most people thought, would be professional and will pay meticulous attention to every detail. What the people did not know was that the nation’s affairs were being entrusted into the hands of an arrogant individual with no common sense.
In October last year Professor Mthuli Ncube announce that Zimbabwe’s local currency, the Bond Note, would be allowed to float. The value of Bond Note dropped from 1:1 to 10:1 to the US$ as people panicked and tries to get rid of their Bond Notes. If people thought the Minister had learned then they were wrong.
Of course, it was down right foolish to announce that Zimbabwe was getting rid of its present RTGS$ it is no surprise that the RTGS$ has too lost its value just as the Bond Note did!
"That is rank madness. How does one change currencies like they are changing diapers? What is the point of changing the name of the currency if it will suffer the same fate as the bond note?” said Tendai Biti. He is right.
Mthuli Ncube has turned out to be an idiot and one wonders at the idiot who appointed him!
This would be laughable if the political ramifications of this MDC perfidy were not disastrous to the party and the nation at large!
ReplyDeleteSo thanks to Mwonzora's withdrawal from the race, Nelson Chamisa is now going to be elected leader of the MDC without ever being grilled on what he stands for, what he hopes to achieve, what went wrong in the past, etc., etc.!
No doubt Chamisa will now return the favour and support Mwonzora's candidature for the position of Secretary General. So there will be no meaningful debate and scrutiny of what he has achieved, failed to achieve and hope to achieve in that position. There will be no opportunity to see whether there is someone else out there with something fresh to offer.
This is just one sure way of making sure there is no meaningful competition in the party and so corrupt and incompetent leaders are allowed to stay. MDC has been totally ineffective these last 19 years, proof the party is full of deadwood and now the deadwood is being allowed to remain in power!
We all know that Mnangagwa is corrupt, the godfather of the corrupt brigade. Of cource, he has know that corruption is deep-rooted so deep-rooted it is IMPOSSIBLE for him to ever uproot it. How can he uproot it when he is the godfather of corruption. It would be easier for him to lift himself up with his own shoe laces than to punish himself for corruption!
ReplyDeleteThe consequences of the country failing to end corruption are worsening economic situation and the human suffering it brings.
"All the people dying here are covered with blankets and they remain in the wards with patients until their next of kin claims the body. The situation becomes more complex when some bodies spend two to three days unclaimed," one nurse at Chegutu District Hospital admitted.
Every Zimbabwean must hang their head in shame because this is the tragedy of us all doing nothing to stop Zanu PF dragging us all into this hell-on-earth. Three days of having a corpse for a neighbour; it is insulting for the living and disrespectful to the dead!
What is wrong with us, have we lost our self-respect and our humanity? If such tragic story do not spur us into action what will it take to force us to open our eye and do something to end this madness.