By Maiwada Dammallam
"This started with the lavish gift of immunity from prosecution negotiated between Mugabe and the new administration to encourage Mugabe to step down. It beats me why Mugabe needed to be persuaded to allow Zimbabwe move on.
In my opinion, he knows best that brute force is also an option in extreme situations for any sit-tight dictator to expect being pampered before bowing out when it becomes obvious that he's no longer part of the solution but part of the problem. Laurent Gbagbo is a lesson for arrogant African leaders to learn from.
Mugabe's contribution to the development of Zimbabwe shouldn't have been equated with a ticket to do as he wish with the fate and destiny of its 16m people.
Unfortunately most of the movers and shakers of the new administration were men and women that participated in designing and executing the atrocities committed against Zimbabwe by Mugabe.
From January 1983, a campaign of terror was waged against the Ndebele people in Matabeleland in western Zimbabwe. The Gukurahundi massacres remain the darkest period in the country’s post-independence history, when more than 20,000 civilians were killed.
With Emerson Mnangagwa, one of the two key figures indicted for the Ndebele massacre, sitting as President, its only logical to assume Mugabe would get away with the massacre of the Ndebele people but, to lavish Mugabe with a $10m payoff and a $150,000 salary for life is nothing short of insulting the sensibility of the impoverished people of Zimbabwe.
Under Mugabe's watch Zimbabwe was reduced to pauperised nation despite the abundance of resources that could create a decent economy if applied judiciously. Instead, what they had was a child of a crossed freedom fighter and dictator who looked the other way for cronies to rape Zimbabwe silly while he was doing an excellent job of it himself.
What is Zimbabwe paying Mugabe $10m + $150,000 salary for life for? For creating the biggest spender in Paris designer houses out of his wife while children of poor citizens are dying for malnutrition and other preventable diseases or, is the payoff meant to sustain the lifestyles of his irreversibly spoilt children one of whom had no shame pouring a $200 bottle of champagne on $60,000 wristwatch while being recorded for both the poor citizens and posterity to judge?
I wholly agree Zimbabwe as presently configured is nothing but an old wine in a new bottle. Clearly Mnangagwa is nowhere near the answer the impoverished people of Zimbabwe spend more than 2 decades looking for. Prudence and accountability in the context of leadership is not something you can give a waiver to anybody matter how high or how close to the grave.
We ask for accountability to strengthen leadership and encourage good governance not for revenge or settling scores. Now, what will stop Mnangagwa doing as he wish with the collective destiny of Zimbabwe when he's assured of a multi-million dollar payoff and a kingly salary for life at the end of the tunnel regardless of what legacy he left behind?"
In my opinion, he knows best that brute force is also an option in extreme situations for any sit-tight dictator to expect being pampered before bowing out when it becomes obvious that he's no longer part of the solution but part of the problem. Laurent Gbagbo is a lesson for arrogant African leaders to learn from.
Mugabe's contribution to the development of Zimbabwe shouldn't have been equated with a ticket to do as he wish with the fate and destiny of its 16m people.
Unfortunately most of the movers and shakers of the new administration were men and women that participated in designing and executing the atrocities committed against Zimbabwe by Mugabe.
From January 1983, a campaign of terror was waged against the Ndebele people in Matabeleland in western Zimbabwe. The Gukurahundi massacres remain the darkest period in the country’s post-independence history, when more than 20,000 civilians were killed.
With Emerson Mnangagwa, one of the two key figures indicted for the Ndebele massacre, sitting as President, its only logical to assume Mugabe would get away with the massacre of the Ndebele people but, to lavish Mugabe with a $10m payoff and a $150,000 salary for life is nothing short of insulting the sensibility of the impoverished people of Zimbabwe.
Under Mugabe's watch Zimbabwe was reduced to pauperised nation despite the abundance of resources that could create a decent economy if applied judiciously. Instead, what they had was a child of a crossed freedom fighter and dictator who looked the other way for cronies to rape Zimbabwe silly while he was doing an excellent job of it himself.
What is Zimbabwe paying Mugabe $10m + $150,000 salary for life for? For creating the biggest spender in Paris designer houses out of his wife while children of poor citizens are dying for malnutrition and other preventable diseases or, is the payoff meant to sustain the lifestyles of his irreversibly spoilt children one of whom had no shame pouring a $200 bottle of champagne on $60,000 wristwatch while being recorded for both the poor citizens and posterity to judge?
I wholly agree Zimbabwe as presently configured is nothing but an old wine in a new bottle. Clearly Mnangagwa is nowhere near the answer the impoverished people of Zimbabwe spend more than 2 decades looking for. Prudence and accountability in the context of leadership is not something you can give a waiver to anybody matter how high or how close to the grave.
We ask for accountability to strengthen leadership and encourage good governance not for revenge or settling scores. Now, what will stop Mnangagwa doing as he wish with the collective destiny of Zimbabwe when he's assured of a multi-million dollar payoff and a kingly salary for life at the end of the tunnel regardless of what legacy he left behind?"
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