The soldiers are already
receiving preferential treatment in that their wages are being paid before the
rest. The top brass in the army are asking for more; whilst everyone else are
having to deal with limits to how much cash they can withdraw from their bank,
they want soldiers to have no such limits.
“IN a desperate move to
forestall potential unrest by soldiers - who are already getting preferential
treatment on wage payment dates - the Zimbabwe National Army has approached
banks to set up facilities at army barracks around the country so that military
personnel have access to their salaries in full,” reported Zimbabwe
Independent.
"Paying army salaries
at the barracks is not possible as we did in 2008 with the Zimbabwean dollar.
The major challenge now is that there is no cash on the market as we all
know," said a bank official who requested anonymity.
Even if the banks were to
agree to deny everyone else cash until our boys and girls in uniforms are
satisfied; the cash shortage is going to be followed by a shortage of goods and
services are we going to have well stocked shops for the exclusive use of the soldiers
only!
It is sad that the security
chefs, who are putting forward these stupid suggestions, continue to be so naïve
and gullible as to still think the soldiers or anyone can, somehow, be insulated
from the adverse effects of the economic meltdown that is affecting the nation
right now. Unemployment has soared to nauseating heights of 90% plus, 76% of
the people are now living in abject poverty they cannot afford even one decent
meal a day, etc.; is enough to convinced even the most naïve amongst them that
the situation is very serious and no one can be shielded from economic fallout.
The root cause of the
economic meltdown is the country’s failure to remove Mugabe and his corrupt and
tyrannical regime from office even when it was abundantly evidence the regime
had failed to bring economic prosperity they promised because Mugabe blatantly
rigged the elections. And it was none other than the security chefs, war
veterans and other unscrupulous sectors of society who aided and abetted the
tyrant in imposing his no-regime-change mantra on the nation.
Instead coming up with such
nonsense as exclusive banking privileges for the soldiers these security sector
buffoons must acknowledge that the no-regime-change nonsense is as fallacious
and unworkable as being denied a polio vaccine in favour of stone stone-age
concussion. We must just forget this notion that Mugabe and his Zanu PF thugs
can ever get this country out of the economic mess we are in. They would have
never landed us in such a mess if they are as competent as they say they are. They
failed and now they must go!
The road to meaningful economic
recovery in Zimbabwe is via meaningful political reform. The dreaded regime
change is dreaded to Mugabe and a handful of his cronies who have continued to
prosper in the face of the crippling economic meltdown. The question this
nation must now answer is: How much longer must the nation suffer to gratify
the primeval and insatiable greed of a tyrant and his mates?
The cup is full to
overflowing; if nothing is done to end the economic meltdown now, today, tomorrow
we will talking street violence or worse!
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