Over the weekend the Police raided MDC-T’s party offices in Bulawayo and arrested a number of the party’s supporters and looted the offices. Tsvangirai MDC spokesman Douglas Mwonzora told VOA Studio 7 that party was “making efforts to reclaim the seized property”.
This is a typical mother hen response after the eagle has snatched one of her chicks the nation has learnt to expect from MDC - make a big farce cursing and swearing and running and flapping her wings as if to say this time she will eat the eagle alive but, of course, her feet never even leave the ground! What makes the Zimbabwe situation so intolerable is that rogue Police Officers are nothing more than gutter crows and the mother hen is in fact the all powerful fish eagle!
Parliament is the most powerful institution in the land, it could have had all the Police Officers involved in this raid fired and jailed. Why have parliament failed to do so in this case and in all the other similar cases across the land? Unlike in the past, since the 2008 elections Tsvangirai and his MDC party have the majority in parliament.
The Zimbabwe Republic Police have repeated failed the people of Zimbabwe by failing to arrest unruly Zanu PF thugs. It is the Police’s sacred duty to maintain law and order. Their excuse for doing nothing was that their hands are tied when it comes to political violence by Zanu PF supporters. MDC’s Home Affairs Ministers has said again and again that the Police are getting their instruction “from high places” to do nothing against Zanu PF thugs.
The situation has got even worse now; the Police are themselves directly involved in the political violence, as happened with this raid in Bulawayo.
It is a well known fact that Mugabe has used his position as State President to undermine the independence of country’s democratic institutions including the Police to impose his one-party dictatorship. He has denied the people their basic and fundamental rights including the right to a meaningful say in the governance of the country and the right to life.
Mugabe is a ruthless tyrant.
It is a tragic curse to befall a nation when those in positions of power and trust such as State President, Zanu PF leaders and the Police abuse their positions. It is an abomination those entrusted to guard against such blatant abuse of power, out of cowardice or for selfish gain, do nothing; their inaction is aiding and abetting the abusers.
It is the ordinary Zimbabweans one fells sorry for; they are the ones who are paying dearly for all the rampant lawlessness and abuses. For years they have hoped against hope for the return of law and order, freedom and peace; sadly the situation has been getting worse and not better! They are caught up in a rat race going nowhere!
“When people
run in circles
It’s a very, very
Mad world”
Sung Gary Jules.
Zimbabwe is become that mad world!
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