This turned out to be a comedy of errors comparable to the accused not only cross examining the Judge, the Plaintiff, the Plaintiff’s council, the Jury and all the Court Officials but throwing the lot into remand prison! This would be laughable if it was not for the millions of ordinary Zimbabweans who have suffered and continue to suffer because the country’s Police and Security Agencies has failed to maintain law and order and up hold the rule of law.
Parliament is supposed to be the highest Court of Law in the land whose power and authority above all else and therefore all those called to appear before a Parliamentary committee are sworn to speak the truth and nothing but the truth. - Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri’s behaviour is nothing short of contemptuous.
"We have recorded 121 cases of political violence since January and all are related to the MDC legislators. I wonder why you decide to call me to appear before your committee since you are the politicians who are causing all the violence that is happening in the country,” said Chihuri.
The Commissioner would like the nation to believe that it is MDC who are inciting the violence and yet it is MDC supporters who always end up been beaten, raped and even murdered. And more often than not the violence has taken place on MDC’s home, Police Station or Churches were the victims had sought protection showing that it was Zanu PF supporters who are hunting they victims down. Worse still the Police have often escorted Zanu PF thugs and even took part in the violence!
The British South Africa Police (BSAP)’s main task was to the white resign of Ian Smith stayed in power; they did not care about the individual rights and dignity of the blacks. Indeed the demands for these rights particularly the right to have a meaningful say in the governance of the country was considered a threat to continued white domination and was ruthlessly suppressed. Was this not what we had hoped to end?
The ZRP is here to defend Mugabe and the Zanu PF dictatorship just as diligently as the BSAP had defended white colonial oppression. We have come a long way and yet we did not move an inch!
Tsvangirai and MDC have proved once again to be just as ineffective in stopping Mugabe riding rough shod over the people as Chief Chirau, Chief Ndiweni and the few Black MPs appointed in the white colonial parliament had too proved to be totally ineffective at stopping Ian Smith doing the same thing! Chief Chirau and company were in government to give a semblance of respectability to the white regime. MDC are saving the exact same purpose.
In Zimbabwe parliament has no real power. It is Mugabe and the Joint Operations Command (JOC) who have all the power. As a member of JOC, Chihuri’s contemptuous dismissal of the Parliamentary Committee was to remind all were real power lies. Chihuri was pulling rank!
Call for Chief Chirau and company to resign fell on deaf ears; they were well rewarded by the regime and that was all they cared about. Tsvangirai said he would resign from the GNU if it did not workout but that was before he was sworn in as PM. It was clear the very day he was sworn in that this was all he cared about; he would never ever resign. A situation that Mugabe has taken full advantage of, of course!
What Zimbabwe needs desperately is men and women of great intellect, integrity and vision who can restore the role and balance of power of parliament, the Police, Judiciary, etc. in a truly functional parliamentary democracy. All our lives we have suffered under one self-serving regime after another; it is high time this madness is finally put right.
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