One of the reasons why we are in this economic
and political mess is that we are a confused nation. And very often the
confusion comes from none other than the intellectuals, the very people the
nation would be looking up to to come up with the gems of wisdom!
“A transitional authority should not
include any members of the present political parties. They are too naïve and
can be manipulated with gifts of gold and diamonds to return the same outcome,”
wrote Professor Ken Mufuka in Nehanda Radio.
The Professor was adding his voice to
the many who have called for the formation of a transition authority which will
be tasked to implement all the democratic reforms necessary to ensure free,
fair and credible elections.
MDC should have implemented the reforms
during the GNU but failed to get even one reform implemented because Tsvangirai
et al are incompetent and corrupt. Of course they sold-out! As for President
Mugabe and his Zanu PF cronies, it is naïve to expect them to implement the
reforms; they are the ones who have systematically corrupted the political
system and have an invested interest in maintaining the status quo.
So Professor Mufuka’s call for the
exclusion of all the GNU political leaders in the proposed transition authority
made sense, at least until he shot himself in the leg.
“In my opinion, Sister Joice Mujuru is
in a very unique place to save our nation,” he argued.
He is talking about the same Joice
Mujuru who has been at the very heart of the Zanu PF government for 34 years
and has done nothing to stop the corruption and murderous political oppression
by Zanu PF. She has benefited from the de facto one party state, how else would
she have retained her political power given she is a simpleton with nothing to
offer.
She and her late husband have been very
busy looting. According to Minister Kasukuwere the Mujurus are responsible for
a “chunk” of the $15 billion of looted diamonds President Mugabe said was
stolen between 2010 to 2015.
How anyone can entrust the destiny of a
nation in the hands of a corrupt and incompetent simpleton like Joice Mujuru beggars
belief!
“ZANU-PF has been accused of not having
won any election since 2000 and will therefore have to be dragged into such an
arrangement.
“No government ever gives up power until
there is a real possibility of popular retribution that includes public
hanging. That is why the popular #ThisFlag power must be entertained. The
possibility that those who trampled on human rights may face the noose must not
be hidden away from them,” continued Mufuka.
#ThisFlag, #Tajamuka/Sesijikile and many
other social media based campaign groups that have emerged all had one thing in
common a simple message. Typically they called for “Mugabe must fire corrupt
ministers!” “Give us our $15 billion back!” “Give us the 2.2 million jobs”,
etc.
Indeed it was the simplicity of their
message that has made #ThisFlag, etc. so popular.
If the truth be told, and it must be
told, we are in this political and economic mess because, as a nation we have
been very naïve and gullible. Going for a simplistic solution to a complex
problem is one sign of being naïve. Corruption in Zimbabwe was grown in leaps
and bounds for the last 36 years to the point where even a simpleton like Joice
Mujuru is able to loot $15 billion!
Surely it is too simplistic for anyone to
be calling for Mugabe to fire corrupt minister; that is call one made in the
1980s. In the 1990s the call was to fire the corrupt ministers and President
himself – the whole regime. Sure the call since 2000 was for meaningful
democratic reforms to stop Zanu PF rigging elections!
Many followers of #ThisFlag have supported
and voted for Tsvangirai and his MDC party since 2000. They have joined in the
call for change but without ever understanding what changes they wanted. When
MDC failed to implement any changes during the GNU none of them held Tsvangirai
to account; how can they hold MDC to account over something they never
understood.
Many of these #ThisFlag followers have
latched on to the simplistic message of ”Mugabe fire corrupt ministers!”
because they still have no clue what the democratic reforms the transition
authority is supposed to implement are about.
The very suggestion that #ThisFlag
supporters are now so sophisticated they hold “the noose” to those guilty of past serious
human rights violations is absurd.
President Mugabe never doubted for one
minute that he would deliver mass prosperity with his simplistic “Scientific
Socialism” which in everyday language meant reckless spending to prosperity. Sadly
life is not that simple, Zimbabwe is subject to the same laws of physics and
economics as the rest of the world. The nation was naïve and gullible to allow
him to take us down this ruinous path.
People like Professor Mufuka are not
helping us get out of the mess by encouraging us to look to simpleton like
Mujuru and the dangerously simplistic #ThisFlag for answers!
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