Eddie Cross blames SADC and International community for MDC's failure to implement reforms - what a lie!

Eddie Cross is one of the few MDC leaders who has shown some spackle throughout out the years. For one thing, he is the one who spoke out against the looting of the Marange diamonds and the serious consequences if this was allowed to continue. It was none other than the breathtakingly incompetent Tsvangirai who shot him down and giving everything in Marange a thumbs up. The late Chindori Chininga’s parliamentary report a few months later confirm that Eddie was right; there was serious looting going on.

 

It was the billions of dollars looted from Marange that allowed Mugabe to pay for the services of such dodgy companies like Nikus and thus rig the elections with the disastrous consequences the nation now face.

 

I salute Eddie Cross for his foresight and courage in flagging the Marange looting problem and a number of other things. He has the wrong end of the stick in this case.

 

It was not SADC or the international community who are to blame for MDC’s failure to implement the democratic reforms before the July 2013 election. It was MDC’s own breath-taking incompetence that not even one reform was implemented after five years in the GNU.

 

Eddie tells us SADC and the international community “abandoned principle for accommodation”. Nonsense.

 

How many times did SADC tell MDC to follow the roadmap and implement the reforms? Countless time and yet MDC did nothing.

Leaders like President Ian Khama of Botswana said the Copac constitution was weak and feeble to delivery free and fair elections and yet MDC led the campaign to have the rubbish document approved in the referendum. Whilst Eddie Cross and a few other MDC leaders said nothing, they must have known that their silence would be taken as approval.

 

As for the international community they never accepted the GPA because it granted Mugabe dictatorial powers. The US Ambassador to Zimbabwe described the GPA as having more “holes than Swiss cheese”. They are argued MDC not to accept the GPA but once again MDC would not listen.

 

Eddie, you cannot promised the reader an honest and frank analysis and then go on to give a dishonest account of historic facts. MDC did not implement even one of the democratic reforms because Tsvangirai and the rest of the MDC leaders “became too comfortable in the GNU and forgot they were there to implement democratic reforms” as SADC leaders said in their statement in June.

 

It is bad enough that MDC betrayed the nation and landed us in this mess; please, please, do not insult our intelligence by telling us lies and feeble excuses!!