Sunday, 27 September 2020

Kasukuwere denies corruption, "yet to see what was stolen!" - have seen his bullet-proof mansion, Mugabe's Blue Roof Palace, etc. P Guramatunhu

 President Emmerson Mnangagwa is reportedly seeking to have Zanu PF G40 faction leaders like Saviour Kasukuwere, now living in self-imposed exile brought back to Zimbabwe to face justice. The G40 leaders are being accused of corruption. 


Well, in a country where corruption has been rampant for decades and most Zanu PF leaders, be they G40 or from Mnangagwa’s own Lacoste faction, are filthy rich, oasis with dense Amazon forest vegetation in the middle of the Sahara desert of grinding poverty. Mnangagwa will have no problem producing an inventory of Kasukuwere et al amassed wealth complete with details of when and how most of the loot came from. 


The challenge for Mnangagwa is to produce the details without incriminating himself and many of his own Lacoste faction member since many have amassed similar wealth using similar if not identical means. Kasukuwere knows this and hence the reasons he thrown the gauntlet, daring Mnangagwa to produce the evidence.


"We are yet to see what was stolen,” Kasukuwere told New Zimbabwe. 


What Kasukuwere is forgetting here is that the real victims of the Zanu PF’s rampant corruption are the ordinary Zimbabweans, and not Mnangagwa. It is therefore to them he must account for his amassed wealth. 


Kasukuwe must declaring all his assets, the farms, the bullet-proof mansion, the posh cars, etc., etc. And then explain where he got the money to buy it all! There is certainly a prima facie case for him answer; how was it that he amassed such wealth at a time when corruption was rampant the country’s economy suffered from total economic meltdown.


“It is a regrettable development, in my view, things could have been done differently and I still think that what happened needs to be corrected. What happened (November 2017 military coup) cannot be a feature that remains constant in the minds of our people,” continued Kasukuwere.


"People (cabinet ministers) would discuss and if you had a better idea or better viewpoint, that carried the day. But yes we could tell that there was uneasiness in some individuals who were then able to mobilise war veterans and secondly the army to overcome a political system.


"As a political player then, I don't think the differences warranted that kind of intervention.”


Rubbish! Everyone knows that Mugabe was a control freak and he treated his cabinet ministers with contempt a Headmaster would treat grade one pupils. And for their part, cabinet members cowed and grovelled before him. There were never any meaningful cabinet discussions and hence the reason the country has blundered from pillar to post, from one crisis into another. 


“Mose murivakadzi vaMugabe!” (You (MPs and cabinet ministers) are all Mugabe’s concubines!) remarked Margret Dongo. She had done her fair share of grovelling and was frustrated at the little progress up the greasy pole she had made. She had been a Zanu PF MP and to hang on to that she was forced to leave the party and contest as an independent!  


Still, Ms Dongo was right; Zimbabwe was and still is a medieval hamlet ruled by an autocratic Sultan. “Well, am I Sultan or am I Sultan!” 


The November 2017 military coup removed one tyrant but only to replace him with another tyrant. Some concubines were promoted, others were down graded whilst others, Kasukuwere et al, were booted out of the harem. Otherwise, the coup changed; Zimbabwe is still a pariah state ruled by corrupt and murderous vote rigging thugs. 


The much hope for economic revival has not occurred; it is near impossible to do business in a pariah state, investors know that.


Kasukuwere and his fellow G40 faction leaders are desperate to get back into power and are hoping to do this riding on the coattail of the opposition. Kasukuwere et al are now using some of their ill-gotten wealth to bankroll the opposition. 


Mnangagwa is having a tough enough time retaining his iron grip on power given the country’s worsening economic meltdown without having to fight off a well funded opposition and worst of all a rearguard attack from his former erstwhile Zanu PF G40 colleagues. 


Mnangagwa will do everything he can to round up Kasukuwere and the rest of the G40 leaders back home, just to silence them. Accusing Kasukuwere and company of corruption is just a cover to justify why the respective country hosting them must deport them.


To the long suffering people of Zimbabwe recovering the looted wealth from not just G40 leaders but Mnangagwa and his Lacoste cronies will go a long way to finance the economic recovery and, just as important, a long way in stamping out corruption. But before that can happen we must first implement the democratic reforms to ensure free, fair and credible elections - the pre-requisite for ending the curse of rigged elections and bad governance. 


"We are yet to see what was stolen!” Many of us have seen Kasukuwere’s bullet proof mansion, Robert Mugabe’s sprawling Blue Roof palace, Mnangagwa’s nuclear bomb-proof underground mansion, etc.; built at the expense of schools and hospitals now in very advance stages of rot and decay!

8 comments:

Zimbabwe Light said...

@ Sibanda

“Corruption has roots and protection within the corridors of power in the Zimbabwean clueless government. When they fail, they blame sanctions.  Journalists that expose it languish in prisons and the looters walk free. They enjoy their ill-gotten wealth leaving us to pick up scraps underneath their tables.”

Zanu PF has rigged elections and went on to loot the nation blind for the last 40 years. Why we have allowed this to go on for all these years is unforgivable and we have paid dearly for it.

Zimbabwe Light said...

A video of Vice President General Constantino Chiwenga declaring that President Emmerson Mnangagwa will rule forever has gone viral on the internet.

Speaking in Shona, Chiwenga is heard saying President Mnangagwa will rule until the day he wants to leave because no election will remove him.

Well he was only saying something out loud what we have known for decades.

Zimbabwe Light said...

"We have given peace a chance, but some have been disrespectful of this. We have been founded on the roots of fighting for freedom. This fight has not ended," he said.

"We have given dialogue a chance, but some perceive our call for dialogue as a weakness. We have given democracy a chance, but some feel an election which is stolen means that we will capitulate and we are surrendering to the electoral fraud. Democracy is under attack, citizens are under attack, all of us are under attack.

"One way I must tell you of looking into this is that when we are under attack, this is an opportunity to organise everything. So we are calling on all Zimbabweans, now forget about your political parties, and now forget about your churches, organisations, student movements, any other belonging. Let's remember that we are all under the banner of Zimbabwe.

"Let's unite, let's unite. In the next coming days change is coming. Be part of it. That is why as leadership, we are not panicking. The walls of Jericho are falling. Don't lose sleep.”

MDC had the golden opportunity to implement the democratic reforms during the 2008 to 2013 GNU, SADC leaders had managed to force Mugabe to sign the Global Political Agreement forcing Zanu PF to agree to the implementation of a raft of democratic reforms. MDC failed to get even one reform implemented. Not even one reform in five years!

Ever since the 2008 GNU fiasco MDC leaders have settled to participate in the elections with no reforms chasing the few gravy train seats Zanu PF has been giving away as bait. Anyone who still expect MDC to implement the reforms is naive and gullible.

Zimbabwe Light said...

MDC Secretary General Douglas Mwonzora says the group of youths occupying Harvest House is being funded by MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa and the former ZANU PG grouping G40 to take over the party head office.

Speaking outside the offices Mwonzora claims the youths were holding 12 people hostage. "They're not in a position to make demands. They're in a weak position legally and physically... They are Chamisa's people. It's a question of time, we will take our building.”

Zimbabwe is facing its greatest health and economic challenge of our generation and the situation is made much, much worse by the blundering incompetence of this Zanu PF regime. And throughout this difficult period elected MDC leaders have taken French leave and are not even holding the regime to account.

MDC leaders have been fighting against each, no holds barred, and over trivial matters. MDC leaders are corrupt and incompetent and they have shown again and again these last 20 years just how utterly useless they are but this takes the biscuit. This is a real nightmare!

Zimbabwe Light said...

Mnangagwa is the godfather of the godfathers of corruption, the Zeus on Mount Olympus, he is not interested in stamping out corruption no more than Zeus was going to give up his thunderbolt and ask his fellow gods to do the same.

Mnangagwa is going after Kasukuwere and company because he knows that these G40 leaders know Mnangagwa’s weaknesses and, given half a chance to remove him and his Lacoste faction, they are just as ruthless. Mnangagwa is not interested in stamping out corruption only in making sure that G40 do not unseat him.

Zimbabwe Light said...

A certain section of South Africans under the banner of #PutSouthAfricansFirst will stage a demonstration in Pretoria calling for the immediate deportation of foreigners from the Southern neighbouring country and the cancellation of special visa permits for Zimbabwe and Lesotho citizens.

According to a flyer circulated by the organization, South Africa national Defense Forces must conduct daily raids to deport illegal immigrants who are taking jobs of South Africans.

Corona virus has posed very serious health and economic challenges and the economic recovery is going to be a slow and painful process.

Zanu PF has not been testing for corona virus and so our official figures are not to be trusted. Many more Zimbabweans had the virus and many have died that the government will let us believe. On the economic front, the virus has dragged the Zimbabwe economy, already in trouble before the outbreak, into even deeper trouble.

Millions of Zimbabweans left the country to escape economic poverty. It is unthinkable that many Zimbabweans are going to return at the very time when the economy is sinking even deeper into the abyss!

We should have sorted our problem of bad governance and yet for 40 years we have done nothing. Now the chickens are coming home to roost!

Zimbabwe Light said...

"Zimbabwe's answer lies in the inclusive government, where you now harness all skills and potential to get better results. We tried it in 2009 and everyone now reminisces of the period, but if you say you won an election and are, therefore, entitled to benefit with my followers, to benefit when the country has over 14 million people, four million voters and only two million voting for you, there is a problem," said Walter Mzembi.

"If I were to meet my brother (President Emmerson) Mnangagwa, this is the advice I would give him. This is what (the late former President Robert) Mugabe used to do, bringing his enemies closer. He knew that in Cabinet there were people who wanted his position, some who did not agree with him, but people worked," he added.

If the 2008 to 2013 GNU worked then why did it fail to stop the curse of rigged elections and bad governance leading to the military coup in 2017?

Of course, the 2008 GNU was a failure because it failed to implement even one reform and the new GNU Mzembi is proposing will do no better as long as Zanu PF, be it Lacoste or G40, are allowed to play a role. Zanu PF members created this dictatorship and will do everything in their power to preserve it!

Mnangagwa rigged the July 2018 elections, the regime is illegitimate and must step down to create the political space for an interim administration whose principle task will be to implement the democratic reforms.

Zimbabwe Light said...

@ Kundayi

The root cause of Zimbabwe's economic and political crisis is the country's failure to hold free, fair and credible elections it is nonsense for Zanu PF to keep blaming the crisis on sanctions, drought, etc. Sanctions or no sanctions there is no excuse for ZEC's failure to produce something as basic as a verified voters' roll!

Zimbabwe is not getting out of this mess until we have free, fair and credible elections. FACT!