Didymus Mutasa and
Rugare Gumbo have since lodge the Court challenge of the legality of last year’s
Zanu PF elections given that the party failed to follow its own constitutional
procedure. Mugabe has since responded to the challenge by threatening any judge
who dares to hear the case. Rugare Gumbo is fearful that the judge may be influenced
by Mugabe’s threats and rule against him.
“There is selective
justice in Zimbabwe,” moaned Rugare Gumbo. “Some favoured ones always get the
best justice, while the worst goes to those unfavoured ones.”
It has taken 34 years
and being kicked out of Zanu PF for Gumbo to finally realise this. Is he a slow
learner or what?
“This old man (Mugabe)
has got absolutely no respect for both the Constitution and also for the
principle of constitutionalism,” said MDC-T spokesman, Obert Gutu commenting on
Mugabe’s threats against the judge.
“He is operating like
a classic tin pot dictator”.
The hypocrisy and
opportunism of Mr Gutu is sickening! Tsvangirai, Gutu’s boss, changed the MDC’s
constitution so he could stay in power beyond the two terms limit, for example;
what “respect for both the constitution and also for the principle of
constitutionalism” was MDC showing then?
It has been one and
half years since Obert Gutu, Morgan Tsvangirai, Tendai Biti, Welshman Ncube and
other MDC leaders lost their cabinet positions and, for many of them, their
parliamentary seats too and with it their seats on the gravy train. They have
missed the life comforts of the gravy train so, so much it is now showing in
their rank opportunism.
MDC has been taking
advantage of the country’s economic meltdown to ask Mugabe to invite them back
into government and thus back on the gravy train; not because they would
accomplish anything of economic or political significance when they failed to
do so in the first GNU. Gutu is calling Mugabe a “tin pot dictator” out of
frustration Mugabe has not agreed to allowing them back on the gravy train.
Throughout the GNU years Obert Gutu and all his MDC colleagues were all over
Mugabe like excited puppies tripping over each other in their praise of Mugabe.
If Mugabe was to agree
to another GNU, the country’s economic meltdown has reached a critical stage
and it is clear the situation cannot continue GNU mark 2 would be the easier
option for Mugabe to stepping down and giving up power. If Mugabe was to do
that Obert Gutu and company will be back their puppy-duties forgetting they
ever called Mugabe a dictator.
Mugabe is a dictator
and for Zimbabwe end this economic meltdown we need to end the Zanu PF
dictatorship which is what MDC should have done during the GNU years by
implementing ALL the democratic reforms. They failed to get even one reform
implemented. GNU mark 2 will not dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship but will
give Zanu PF a measure of legitimacy and MDC leaders back on the gravy train.
As for the ordinary Zimbabweans it will mean another lost opportunity to end
the Zanu PF dictatorship which we must do first before the task of rebuilding
the nation can finally start in earnest.
The people of Zimbabwe
have been cheated and robbed all their basic humans and dignity by Mugabe and
his thugs in the first instance but they must not underestimate the role others
like the Rugare Gumbos and Obert Gutus of this world have played in their long
suffering. People like Gumbo and Gutu only condemn Mugabe now because it is
politically expedient for them to do so; they run with the hare and hunt with
the dogs, that makes them even more dangerous to the hare than the dogs.
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