Let bygones be bygones! Well, well here is the man who single-handed caused the nation’s GDP to fall by a staggering 14% according to IMF and God only knows what else he has done. Least people forget; Zimbabwe’s political and economic crisis has a human price tag; life expectancy has plummeted from 65 years in 1980 to a misery 34 years. Many, many Zimbabwean lives have been lost unnecessarily. And what does Gideon Gono, without doubt one of the key players in this tragic tale of human suffering and death, say - “let bygones be bygones!” No way!
Mr Gono, you and your fellow Mugabe accolades have a lot to answer for. Yes during your heydays you were untouchable and did as you pleased. For years you have lived lives of amazing comfort and luxury in the face of grinding poverty and despair of the masses you systematically cheated and robbed. If there is justice and common decency in this world then surely people like Gideon Gono must account for all their past excesses. At least, the money, farms and all the looted must be taken away from them – even Tsvangirai and his fellow MDC leaders can be trusted to do that!
Judging from Tsvangirai’s past and Gono’s arrogance confirms it; all the past dirty will be swept under the carpet and, if Gono should lose his job at the RBZ, he will probably be employed by the regime in some consultant role. And so will all the other Mugabe cronies!
The much anticipated and postponed meeting of the three principles to the GNU, Robert Mugabe, Morgan Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara, to resolve all outstanding matters such as the firing of Gideon Gono, the stopping of the mindless farm invasions, etc., did finally take place on Monday 20 April 2009. And - surprise, surprise – nothing was resolved.
“It was to spell out who has the power to do what because it is felt some do things, not out of malice, but through lack of understanding of their roles,” explained Gorden Moyo, the Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office. Well else is there to say; this makes it as clear as mud!
Deputy Prime Minister, Arthur Mutambara was in Chegutu to confront the farm inventors and, fair enough, he read the riot act to them. But sadly it was all talk because an hour after he left they were back and once again they chased the farm owner and his workers off the farm. And what was the DPM’s response to that blatant act of defiance? “What matters is that the next time Mugabe denies there have been fresh land invasions I can say that is not true, I saw it for myself.” Really!
If a Deputy Prime Minister can not stand up to these thugs, what chance does the poor white farmer, the Police Constable, Magistrate or the lowly rural peasant has? When Mugabe “declared war” – Tsvangirai’s own words - on the people last years Tsvangirai and his fellow MDC leaders disappeared like mist in the morning sun. The ordinary MDC supporters were left to face the music alone. And from March to June over half a million Zimbabweans were assaulted, raped and/or had their property destroyed. At least 200 lost their lives. Gono purchased most of the vehicles used by the thugs using funds donated to help Aids victims, the starving – the weakest and most vulnerable people.
The sheer incompetence of Tsvangirai and MDC is matched only by the heartless brutality and arrogance of Mugabe and his cronies. Lord, what have we done to deserve such a double whack? It is moments like this that one is tempted to think there is no God!
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