ZIMBABWE AN ALLEGORY OF A COUNTRY RULED BY VULTURES!

@ Jean Wright

I like your imagery of vultures. There is something uncouth and down right hellish about vultures but if they had a voice they would probably protested at being compared to Mugabe and his murderous thugs.

“We feed on rotten meat and if we see someone suffering we land, not to help, but to help ourselves,” the vultures would cry out. “Our table manners leave a lot to be desired; we like to bury our heads deep in our food - just as well we have no feathers on our neck. We are the world’s dirtiest undertakers. ‘No job is too gruesome and no morsel too smelly for a vulture!’ that is the vulture's creed!”

“But to be compare to that ruthless and mindless dictator, Mugabe; is an insult not even a vulture can stomach! We vulture will fight over a rotten carcass but will never gourge out another vulture's eye muchless murder him. Look what Mugabe and his gang are doing; they completely destroyed the nation’s economy forcing millions into a life of abject poverty. These people are suffering and dying for lack of clean water to drink and an asprin tablet in this day and age. The regime has murdered tens of thousands of innocent people in its quest to stay in power so Mugabe can continue to loot and murder. Least we forget, Mugabe and his thugs are doing these things to fellow black Zimbabweans - their own people, their own kith and kin!”

Yes, not even vultures would do what Mugabe and his thugs have been doing.

I believe Mugabe and his thugs know what they have been doing is despicable and they will have to answer for it; hence their cast iron resolve to stay in power at all cost. The country’s economy is in a total mess and yet the regime continues to loot. There are very few white owned farms left so the looters have turned on each other; there are stories of Grace Mugabe kicking a Zanu PF Judge off a farm to give it to her son Russell! With each passing day one thing is becoming clear – this house of cards is set to collapse and the regime is set to fall.

Whilst Mugabe is hoping that he can hang on for a bit longer and death finds him still in office. Each one of his top brass thugs is hoping the same. As for the rank and file officers and the thousands roped in into propping up the dictatorship for little reward they are having second thoughts about doing the party’s dirty bidding. They know when the whole edifice crashes they will be the one with blood on their hands and Mugabe and his lot will swear they never saw them in their life!

Zimbabwe has become an allegory what would happen to country ruled by uncouth vultures! The next chapter is what happens to the vultures when they were finally dethroned. Trust me it will be a lesson to discourage any would be dictator to think twice! Watch this space!