Many people have complained that Mai Mujuru and her ex-Zanu PF friends
were taking forever to launch their new political party. They finally announced
the formation of their new Zim PF party in February this year, over a year
since they were booted out of Zanu PF. This was followed by months of silence;
the restive public was told the new party was “strategizing”. After all that to
be then told that the party will not discuss anything of substance as its plans
are a “secret” makes one very suspension of Mai Mujuru and her Zim PF friends
given they insistence that they are now committed to democracy and good
governance.
Have they really abandoned their corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorial
ways in favour of open, transparent and accountable government or are they
conning the nation just to get back on the gravy train! We will be very naïve to
take Mai Mujuru and her friends’ assurance that they have changed at face value
without close scrutiny!
When Mai Mujuru was at the heart of the Zanu PF government she was rarely
seen and, even more, rarely heard except on matters of corruption. She and her
late husband were very busy getting their lion’s share of the looted wealth going
on. The Mujurus’ have amassed a fortune and very few people were surprised to
hear Minister Kasukuwere say she was responsible for “a chunk” of the $15
billion of the looted Marange diamonds.
Anyone who denies that Mai Mujuru, like most of her former Zanu PF fellow
travellers, has benefited from corruption during her Zanu PF days lives in
cloud-cuckoo-land. Then they are others who would have us believe that the very
dramatic events leading to her and others being unceremonious booted out of
Zanu PF was so shocking it was their Damascene transformative moment. She was
cleansed of her infamy as a lazy, corrupt and incompetent simpleton to become a
caring “mother Zimbabwe” keen to rebuild the nation out the ashes of Zanu PF
corrupt and uncaring destruction.
There was no Damascene transformative moment, of that I have no doubt. Mai
Mujuru and her fellow ZimPF friends had seen the growing poverty affecting the
rest of the populous but have never worried that they too might face the same
poverty until the day they were booted out of the party. They greatest pre
occupation since then is how can they get back into power again and regain the
economic comfort power brings.
Mai Mujuru has changed her party name, regalia and slogan less readily as
she did when she changed her maiden name, after all she was booted out of Zanu
PF; changing her persona is near impossible. She is still the same lazy, corrupt
and incompetent simpleton she was during her Zanu PF days! Mai Mujuru a
democrat; what a laugh! She does not know the meaning of the word.
"Sharing with you publicly our plans, our strategy would be the
greatest betrayal I would have done to our people. Suffice to say, we know the
shenanigans, and we have put in place plans to counter them to ensure our
supporters' votes are not put to waste," she replied when she was asked what Zim PF was
planning to do to ensure free and fair elections.
It did not take much for her secretive and totalitarian Zanu PF mentality
to come bouncing back!
Mai Mujuru and her Zim PF friends should know by heart, as the born-again
democrats opposed to the Zanu PF dictatorship, all the 2008 democratic reforms
that must be implemented to ensure free, fair and credible elections. One of
these reforms is media reform designed the freeing of the public media from the
choking Zanu PF strangle hold and to scrap all the laws that have stifled
public debate, freedom of expression and association and so there is free flow
of information.
Mai Mujuru knows well enough President Mugabe’s secretive modus operandi where
everything is considered a top secret to be kept away from cabinet members and
even more so from the public which is the very antithesis of open, transparent,
accountable and democratic government hence the need for media reform.
Ministers and public officials must be open to public scrutiny; how can the
public hold them to account if their work is all shrouded in secrecy and
mystery!
One can understand why Zanu PF would never reveal its vote rigging
schemes; how can they claim the elections were free and fair if the vote
rigging details were common knowledge. Why Mai Mujuru wants measures to stop
Zanu PF rigging elections kept a secret too beggars belief.
If Mai Mujuru knows how Zanu PF rigged the last elections, as she now
claims, then surely she should share this information with everyone because the
more people know how the elections might be rigged the more people there will
be collecting the evidence should that happen again. Knowledge is power and the
more we empower the people the greater the chance of stopping vote rigging!
Only someone who is totally obsessed about secrecy would consider informing
the public on matters of great public interest such as how to stop lawlessness,
murder and rigging elections be “the greatest betrayal” of the people. We are
in this political and economic mess because Mai Mujuru betrayed the nation
allowing corruption run amok and vote rigging to be the norm how ironic that
Mai Mujuru’s conscience should now be so pricked that she will not betray the
people and tell them how they can finally reclaim their right to free and fair
elections and even the right to life, knowing as we do Zanu PF’s murderous
past.
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