Nikuv continued interference in Zimbabwe election is an insult - just paid $600k. Wilbert Mukori

PRESS STATEMENT: Condemning Nikuv’s continued interference in Zimbabwe elections.

The inquiry into possible collusion between the Russians and President Trump’s aides in United States of America’s 2016 presidential elections is heating up. Both the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) carrying out their own separate investigation.

At issue is the fear that the Russians interfered with the USA electoral process and, God forbid, influence the outcome of the elections. The need for elected officials being the people’s choice in a free, fair and credible election if the heart, body and soul of democracy. If anyone, anyone at all be they an individual or segment of society but much less outsiders, other than the people have influence over who gets elected then he/she/they will also dictate policy and before long the government be serving the new-found master(s) instead of the people.

So, it is right and proper that no stone is to be left unturned into the inquiry what the exact nature of Russian involvement in the 2016 US elections. It is the right thing to do in safe keeping the health and integrate of US democracy.

In Zimbabwe, we know that Nikuv, as Israeli company, was heavily involved in our 2013 elections. They corrupted the voters’ roll allowing Zanu PF supporters to cast multiple votes on one extreme and in the other by denying nearly one million opposition supporters the vote by posting their details in a different constituency other than the one the individual voter expected.

We know Nikuv was paid a princely sum of US$10 million for their treasonous services.

Last month former permanent secretary in the Ministry of Mines, Francis Gudyanga admitted in court to requesting $575,000 from the Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ) to finance the Minerals and Border Control Unit without consulting Treasury.

The money, it emerged, was deposited into the bank account of a private company, Pedstock Limited, which is linked to Nikuv. Gudyanga pointedly refused to say what Nikuv was being paid for, but we all know!

The government of Israel was informed by the British and the Americans of Nikuv’s unsavoury interference in Zimbabwe’s elections in 2013 but they elected to ignore the warning.

We in the Zimbabwe Social Democrats make the following four demands:

1)    We demand an end to Nikuv’s obnoxious interference in Zimbabwe’s efforts to end the Zanu PF dictatorship. We demand that Israeli government finally rein in Nikuv because, like it or not, the latter’s unsavoury and insulting activities have soured the relationship between the people of Israel and Zimbabweans.

2)    We demand that SADC, AU, UN and other nations look into Nikuv’s distractive activities in Zimbabwe and possibly other countries in the region in the interest of justice and fair play. We in Zimbabwe accept have our own corrupt and tyrannical dictator and his thugs to content with, the last thing we need is some foreigners pocking their noses into our affairs for their own selfish gain! No nation on earth will accept such blatant interference, why should we!

3)    We demand the implementation of all the democratic reforms including the reforms into political party funding to stop the looting of national resources to bankroll vote rigging schemes such as the corrupting of voters’ roll by Nikuv.

4)    We demand that the country’s opposition parties must paid heed to the SADC advice not to contest the elections until the democratic reforms are implemented. The people of Zimbabwe have a right to free, fair and credible elections and the opposition must now accept the political reality that by participating in the flawed elections they are doing Zanu PF’s bidding in that they give the process credibility!

The people of Zimbabwe have as much right as any other nation on earth to aspire for a healthy and functional democratic system of government. It is most disconcerting that some foreigners should conspire to keep us poor and oppressed for their selfish economic gain. Zimbabweans will follow the Senate investigation of possible Russian interference in the 2016 USA presidential elections with an abated breath. We have a proven case of Nikuv interference in Zimbabwean elections we would want to pursue with vigour and vengeance!

Signed

Wilbert Mukori

ZSD Secretary General.

zimbabwesocialdemocrats@gmail.com

Tsvangirai will be "an albatross round nation's neck," predicted US Ambassador - so it is. W Mukori

“A discerning man, when he eats grapes, takes only the ripe ones and leaves the sour,” said John Climacus.

You know what, John was right. In this world there are those who seemed destined to eat the sour grapes of life whilst others eat nothing else but the sweet ripe grapes! Not everyone has a discerning mind although no one will ever admit to not having one.

One of mankind’s greatest fortes that one cannot self-diagnose to see one’s mental shortcomings. The world is full of people claiming to be experts in matters in which they actually have no clue.

“Insanity,” said the great Physicist, Albert Einstein, “is repeating the same thing over and over again and expect a different result.”

The insane, having failed to discern their mistake repeat the same mistake over and over again; eating the sour grapes.

It is bad enough that they should be so many men and women of little intellect out there masquerading as genius; it because a serious nightmare if these deluded individuals should find themselves into positions of power and authority. If there was any lingering self-doubt in their minds of their own shortcomings there is nothing like holding high office to make all the doubts disappear like a mist in the morning African sun.

Those of us who met and knew Morgan Tsvangirai during his ZCTU days will tell you that he was a man of fogy ideas surrounded by men and women of equally fogy ideas. ZCTU swallowed President Mugabe’s socialism hook, line and sinker, for example, no questions asked. Tsvangirai and his ZCTU friends could not get their heads round the idea that the worker’s pay rises must be linked to productivity, inflation, etc.

“Morgan Tsvangirai a flawed figure, not readily open to advice, indecisive and with questionable judgment,” wrote then USA Ambassador to Zimbabwe 2004 to 2007, Chris Dell in a Wikileaks cable.

"He is an indispensable element for opposition success … but possibly an albatross around their necks once in power. In short … Zimbabwe needs him, but should not rely on his executive abilities to lead the country's recovery."

 Everything that Chris Dell had said has come to pass with disastrous consequences to the nation. Throughout the GNU Tsvangirai has advised by SADC leaders to implement the reforms, not to contest the 2013 elections with no reforms in place, etc. and he paid no heed. As Prime Minister Tsvangirai, he considered himself wiser than King Solomon himself and so listened to no one.

If anyone thought Tsvangirai and MDC’s resounding defeat in the July 2013 rigged elections will force them to see reason, they were wrong. Tsvangirai and company continue to ignore the sound advice not to contest elections until the democratic reforms are implemented. In his single-track mindedness Tsvangirai has decided that bringing the opposition together into a coalition is more important than implementing even one reforms and there is no stopping him.

“For a long time, this is what the people of Zimbabwe have been clamouring for; in the hope that such a convergence would provide the much-needed fillip for change in a country now tottering on the brink of becoming a failed State,” wrote Tsvangirai in his Bulawayo 24 opinion piece.

“We were the first through the resolutions of our 4th national Congress in October 2014 to come up with two important resolutions. The first was urging all people to come under one big tent; the second was to publicly call for the coalition of like-minded groups in order to liquidate the palpable mis-governance and cluelessness that has overwhelmed the seat of government.”

The only sensible resolution MDC-T made in the October 2014 congress was that the party will not contest any future elections until the democratic reforms designed to stop Zanu PF rigging the vote are finally implemented. The “No reform, no elections!” resolution was in fact a rehash of the advice SADC and everyone had spent the GNU years telling Tsvangirai and his MDC friends.

So, now with new national elections around the corner Tsvangirai has once again forgotten the still valid SADC advice but also his own party resolution not to contest the elections without the reforms!

“The huge task ahead is to ensure that the people freely express themselves in a credible election,” concluded Tsvangirai.

“We in the broader democratic movement are all agreed on one thing; that we cannot let this one chance slip or else future generations will not forgive us for letting them down.

“The democratic movement is on the resurgence and indeed, a new Zimbabwe beckons on the horizon.”

Many Zimbabweans believed that 2013 elections would bring about meaningful political change because of the new constitution, which Tsvangirai and company had feverishly promoted as the silver bullet to stop Zanu PF rigging. They were very disappointed when the change did not occur as Zanu PF went on to blatantly rig the election. Although many Zimbabweans still do not understand what went wrong in 2013; they, nonetheless have becomes disillusioned by political leaders like Morgan Tsvangirai.

It does not matter how much Tsvangirai and others in the opposition camp try to promote their coalition as a resurgence of the democratic forces, even few people than in 2013 will see this a platform for change. Instead of leading the nation out of the political and economic mess Mugabe landed the nation, Tsvangirai is dragging the nation even deeper into the mess.

Ambassador Dell has predicted that Tsvangirai would be an “albatross round the nation’s neck” and so it has come to pass.

Tsvangirai is a man who was thrust into a position of power and authority, way above his level of intellectual competence, who cannot discern good advice even when his own past mistakes tells him so. However, because of his position first as Prime Minister and now as the leader of the country’s opposition party – deserved or not, that is now academic -; he wields a lot of influence to determine the destiny of the nation. Thanks to his undiscerning mind and poor leadership, this nation has had nothing but bitter grapes of life. He has led us into a vineyard with nothing but the bitterest variety of grapes!