“Finance Minister Tendai Biti has described a US$98 million loan agreement between Zimbabwe and China to boost the military as “criminal”, despite penning his signature to the mortgage,” reported the Daily News.
If Tendai Biti really believed the Zino-Zim loan agreement to build a state-of-the-art College for the notorious CIO was criminal then why did he approve and sign it. I do not buy the Minister’s story that he was put under pressure to sign. Zimbabweans have heard similar feeble excuses before from the likes of Enos Nkala, Simba Makoni, Dumiso Dabegwa, etc. when they are asked why they did not do anything to stop Mugabe after all their years in power.
Minister Biti signed the “criminal” agreement because he did not want to lose his ministerial job and all the perks that go with it. The same can be said about Tsvangirai, the rest of the MDC leaders, NKala and the rest of Zanu PF leaders died and alive. What Minister Biti and all these politicians lack is principles. Mugabe knows that and has exploited that weakness; he knew if he gave any one of them a Mercedes Benz they will sell their own mothers for a song. And the tyrant was right!
This is not the first time Minister Biti has turned coats and shocked the nations. It is only a year or two ago that the Right Honourable Minister Biti was describing Mugabe as a "Victorian gentleman" who should be "knighted". A ruthless tyrant and murderer who has crashed the very soul of the nation and murdered hundreds of thousands of our people in cold blood a Victorian gentleman!?
Power is indeed a powerful hallucinogenic drug and taken by those with no backbone, no principles, and they sell their own mothers and be proud they had a mother to sell!
Zimbabwe is dying because it does not have principled men or women who will fight for freedom, rule of law, justice, human rights, etc today and not forget these values tomorrow when they are in positions of power and authority.
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