Zimbabwe' s NGO petition to AU Commision on Zimbabwe's "compromised" - the petition itself, a useless compromise!

First of all, let me thank the Zimbabwe’s civil society members, including the Zim Human Rights NGO Forum, for lobbying for the African Commission on Human and People’s rights on Zimbabwe’s rigged elections. It is important that this issue is never taken of Zimbabwe’s national agenda, SADC’s agenda, AU’s agenda or the international community’s agenda; because until this issue is dealt with and dealt with properly Zimbabwe is going nowhere.

So by lobbying anyone and everyone they can Zimbabwe’s civil community are doing a sterling job keeping this issue alive!

I am not so sure about the solutions the grouping is proposing; asking the continental body to pressure the Zanu PF government to clean-up the voters, immediately realign some of the country’s oppressive laws with Copac constitution, etc. That is wilfully inadequate in terms of dealing with this problem with the resolve and seriousness the issue demands.

The civil members produced reports that clearly showed that the 31 July elections were seriously “compromised”, to use the group’s own word. We all saw the bussed in voters, heard the people who were denied the vote because they name was not in the voters roll although they had registered, etc. With all this mountain of evidence before us, it is clear that the elections were rigged and therefore Mugabe and Zanu PF have no mandate to rule.

If Zimbabwe’s NGO members believe in their own reports which lead to one conclusion and conclusion only that Mugabe rigged the elections and is therefore illegitimate. By asking the Commission to put pressure on the Mugabe government the NGO is itself compromising.

To start with the NGO members have tacitly accepted Mugabe and his cronies as the legitimate authority regardless of their rigging the elections. Mugabe blatantly rigged the elections confident that he will present the world with a fait accompli and they will gloss over all the evidence and accept it. And here we are, the country’s civil rights champions, are themselves taking a lead in accepting this abomination!

Second, the NGO are asking Mugabe, the man who masterminded, ruthless executed and benefited from this vote rigging operation to investigate himself and put things right! God, how naïve!

They say road to hell is paved with good intentions. I do not know about the road to hell but certainly Zimbabwe’s road into this hell-hole we now find ourselves in has been paved by people with good intentions but unbelievably naïve! And they are still working hard at it paving the road, not out of, but going even deeper into hell!