Saturday 17 September 2011

Mugabe's "High Priest" Mukonori wanted a "secure way- out for the tyrant!

A Senior Roman Catholic Church Priest in Zimbabwe, Father Fidelis Mukonori SJ, was arguing the Americans and the British to arrange “secure way-out” of power for Mugabe according to a WikiLeaks. There is one man-of-the-cloth amongst many who has served the Zimbabwe tyrant well and served the oppressed masses badly.

Father Mukonori was right to say "ZANU-PF leadership around President Mugabe lacked the political clout, intelligence, experience or vision to lift Zimbabwe out of the hole they had dug". If Father Mukonori was not a member of the inner circle of Mugabe's dictatorship then he was he was certainly a very active member of the next tier of the leadership. He too lacked the political clout, intelligence, etc.
The Roman Catholic Church is rightly ashamed of the role played by some of its leaders throughout the dark years of Mugabe dictatorship. Church leaders like Father Mukonori allowed themselves to get too close to the tyrant and thus ended being used as "good will" ambassadors of the repressive regime. Their ego clouded their judgement; they should have known that he who dines with the devil needs a long spoon!

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