Charamba says Mugabe is not responsible for Dzamara - what happened to "buck stops with President" ethos!

Mugabe’s spokesman, George Charamba, says Mugabe is not responsible for the investigation of Itai Dzamara’s disappearance. Nonsense, of course Mugabe is responsible for investigating the disappearance of Itai Dzamara if not responsible for the disappearance itself! 

 

Mugabe is the state president, the highest authority in the land; he has other officials who are responsible for carrying out the various duties including, in this case, investigating the disappearance of Itai, but when these officials fail, the buck stops with him!

 

The Zanu PF regime had a dilemma as to what to do about Itai Dzamara. When Itai started his “Occupy Africa Square” campaign demanding that Mugabe should go because he had failed; his actions throw the cat amongst the pigeons.

 

Of course Itai was right that Mugabe had failed, the worsening economic situation in the country was a daily reminder and proof of the sheer extend of that failure. The difficult for the regime was to either ignore Itai, and risk the his action and the authority’s failure to remove him inspiring other people to join him or start similar protests. The worsening economic situation made the risk of similar protest a certainty! Or remove Itai and hope that no one will notice.

 

The regime chose to make Itai “disappear” but unfortunately for it many people did notice and there increased public protest the regime had set out to avoid are now happening. People are united in their call for an end to State inspired human rights violations and the total indifference with which those in authority, right up to Mugabe himself, handle these cases.

 

The worsening economic situation, the cause Itai was protesting about, is now unbearable and it is this that in spurring all these people to see Itai as a hero. If the Zanu PF thinks the Itai protests will end soon, they are wrong; the protests are set to grow and the voices demanding his release will grow louder!

 

In Zimbabwe 90% of the people are unemployed, 76% of the population are now living on $200 per month, Zimbabwe is the second poorest nation on earth in stark contrast to its vast wealth and potential, etc. This situation is socially and politically unsustainable; the public protests or worse were a certainty; if the protests were not centred round Itai’s disappearance they would be centred round a dozen other issues but all fuelled by the one thing – the desire to end the economic meltdown!