Somebody shut this fool up: Response to Mugabe

By Langton Mbeva

‘President’ Robert Mugabe once again took to the international stage at the United Nations General Assembly in New York this week blaming ‘illegal and debilitating sanctions’ imposed on his brutal regime saying these are crippling the coalition government from ‘making a positive difference in the lives of the poor, the hungry, the sick and the destitute.’

Allow me to pause while I vomit.

Even if we ignore the murder of 20 000 people in the Matabeleland and Midlands provinces, the murder of dozens of white commercial farmers, Operation Murambatsvina which displaced nearly a million people, and thousands of other people who have lost their lives in countless rigged elections, this fool lost elections in March 2008 and has the temerity to speak on our behalf.

Is it not brazen hypocrisy that this thug can talk about ‘illegal and debilitating sanctions’ making ‘the incidence of poverty in Zimbabwe’ high when he is in New York with a delegation of 80 people, costing the tax payer over US$2 million just for this one trip. What is the benefit to the country of this escapade to the US than it being just a chance for him to rub our nose into the fact the targeted sanctions have failed to once again stop him from going there, albeit for a UN function?

‘As a result of these punitive measures and despite our turnaround economic plan, the government of Zimbabwe has been prevented from making a positive difference in the lives of the poor, the hungry, the sick and the destitute among its citizens,’ the 86 year old octogenarian rumbled on in his speech prepared by motor-mouth spokesperson George Charamba.

‘This is regrettable because Zimbabwe has a stable economic and political environment. We have the resources, and with the right kind of support from the international community, we have the potential to improve the lives of our people,’ he went on. Did I miss something? Is this not the same mad man who at the burial of his sister Sabina Mugabe at the Heroes Acre told Western countries to go to hell, three times? Now he wants their financial support?

Mugabe talks about a ‘stable economic and political environment’ in the same week that his thugs killed an innocent person when they bussed in thugs from the rural areas to disrupt constitutional outreach meetings in Harare, Chitungwiza and Bulawayo. Two students from the Bindura University are said to have died after being brutally assaulted last Friday, by security guards determined to stop those who had not paid their tuition fees from attending a graduation ceremony. Need I say more, this week alone!

From New York Mugabe is set to travel to Ecuador to accept an honorary doctorate from that country’s Anglican Church in recognition of 30 years of ‘outstanding leadership’. Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat? Is there a God out there that just wants to torture us over and over again as Zimbabweans? How can the murder of thousands translate into ‘outstanding leadership’?