Army generals are reportedly earning as
much as $10,000 per month in basic salaries, in addition to a range of other
eye-watering perks. Rank and file soldiers earn a monthly average of $370. Sources
in the ZNA Pay and Records Department revealed to The Zimbabwean that ranks of
Lieutenant Colonel and above enjoy hefty perks and most of them are war
veterans.
The flood gates corruption and looting
have opened and there is no shutting them now.
No doubt all of these well paid Army
Generals paid their part in ensuring that Mugabe stayed in power all these
years and many of them played a critical role in the vote rigging in the 2013
elections. Well, all those Generals who said they will never serve under anyone
else than Mugabe or his chosen successor must start packing because Mugabe and
this corrupt and oppressive dictatorship is finished.
Those who risked their life and many of
them died in the war of independence fought for the freedom and human dignity
of all Zimbabweans and not just a few hand-picked by Mugabe. Those who really
believed and died for the freedom and dignity of all Zimbabweans must be turning
in their graves to see how that noble sentiment has been distorted and twisted
into this Zanu PF ethos of shameless greed, corruption, oppression and murder.
People like General Douglas Nyikayaramba
have brought nothing but shame to ZNA with their public support of a tyrant
like Mugabe. The people should have a free say in the election of the nation’s
political leaders and the Army should respect the expressed democratic wish of
the people. But by undermining the people’s democratic wishes with his
political pronouncement people like General Nyikayaramba removed themselves
from the neutrality of the Army into the political arena.
Now Mugabe that is being force out of
office in disgrace for all the corruption and brutal repression and those in
the security services who have save the tyrant at the expense of the people
must be stripped of their rank and uniform!
2 comments:
The Zimbabwe economy has all but stagnated if not continued to slide backwards into the abyss. Some people believe everyone has simply given up and are waiting for Mugabe to die and hope that will be the impetus for change.
Those who are waiting for Mugabe to die are making a big mistake in that they are letting them-selves to be led by events instead of defining what happens. Mugabe's death is only relevant because they have given up on making the tyrant irrelevant here and now.
Mugabe has dictates our lives for 34 years with disastrous consequences so why should anyone allow this tyrant dictate to him or her for even one day longer much less dictate until the day the tyrant dies, whenever that might be!
Mugabe has been looking East for decades now and yet the East has failed to step in and pour in money at anywhere near the same rate and amounts as the West had done. The Zimbabwe government fell out with the West because the regime in a black-hole - it sucks up everything within its reach and nothing ever comes out again.
Mugabe is good at borrowing from others but does not pay back his debts. He is the modern day Unoka in Things Fall Apart in Chinua Achebe. The Chinese know he is a bad debtor, they are pretty shrewd.
The only reason the Chinese are giving him anything is because they are getting very generous deals from him. And to ensure they get a generous offer they dangle the loan to Mugabe for years just to wet his appetite and when they final give him something it a drop feed.
Chinamasa went to China looking for $27 billion and they gave him a token $23 million plus a promise to finalize something substantive "in three months". They know the Zimbabwe economy is in free fall and the Zimbabwean public is getting increasingly restless. Three months is light years away, and time is the one luxury the regime does not have.
In three months the Chinese will offer Mugabe nowhere near the $27 billion he asked for in de-mand this, that and the other all at knock-down give away prices. No wonder Mugabe was vent-ing his anger at his friends in the East for making him "wait" for every little or nothing!
Beggars cannot be choosers; at least if you do not like paying back then your choice of whom you beg from may well be left to one!
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