What nonsense is Minister Tendai Biti talking about; Zimbabwe has no $120
million to pay for the elections. He, of all people, is the one who has said
millions of dollars from the sale of Marange and Chiadzwa diamonds are
disappearing.
According to a Canadian NGO's research, Mugabe alone is making a cool $2
billion a year from these illicit diamond sales. Mugabe has just built a
mansion worth R200 million in SA; why has this dysfunctional GNU not asked
where the money came from?
The Police and Army have their own diamond concessions and God knows how
much they too are raking in.
SADC would be stupid to pay even a single penny towards these elections for
two reasons:
1) Why should they subsidize Zimbabwe's mismanagement, corruption and looting?
2) This election is not free and fair; it is already clear there is no free
media and the voters' roll is in a mess and the wanton violence is on the
cards. Why should SADC pay for a fraudulent election process?
SADC leaders were right that PM Tsvangirai and his MDC
friends had indeed become “too comfortable in government, forgetting their
presence was meant to create an environment conducive for credible, free and
fair elections”. So comfortable that MDC
have not only been helping Mugabe and his cronies rob the nation, they are now
extending their services to robbing SADC too!
Any SADC country that pays towards these Zimbabwe elections must know that
they will never be paid back that money!
“If you
are going to have the nomination court in seven days’ time will SADC have put
those funds together, if at all they are going to put money in the kit?” asked
Minister Biti. Yes you would love to see that happen wouldn't Minister; SADC
paying whilst your "unflappable" Mugabe can watch his $2 billion per
year loot grow!
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