Mugabe chairing the AU is scandalous
By David Mbinga
The world witnessed yet another shameful and scandalous decision to elect Robert Mugabe the chairperson of the African Union. Mugabe is only president by deception and well-known for gross human rights violations.
Unemployment in Zimbabwe is currently increasing concurrently with his age now at 90% and Mugabe himself turning 91 years old years old on the 28th of February. He is clueless on how to revive the Zimbabwean economy which was once one of the Africa’s strongest.
Robert Mugabe and his bandwagon of thieves have in fact turned Zimbabwe into an agrarian racial enterprise, with nothing to offer besides chanting racial remarks to the western world on every platform he is given.
His appointment as AU chairperson was a slap in the face for African democracy and good governance hence making the development of Africa only a fantasy. Surely how can you choose the class monitor who has failed to maintain order in his class to be the head boy of the school, we only wonder.
Currently Africa is been confronted with a flood of challenges which comprise of the Ebola virus, Terrorism, conflicts in South Sudan, Eritrea and the Central African Republic and the whole of Africa is being forced to put their faith in a man who is failing to provide running water for the population in his own country.
His political party Zanu PF has been using terrorism to keep its grip on to power for the past two decades. The unleashing of terror on opposition political activists has always been one of his key strategies.
Mugabe himself is the master of hypocrisy, he preaches Pan-Africanism but he has no faith in his own country’s health care system, he goes for his medical treatment and check ups in the Far-East.
Africa has so many beautiful places from Cape to Cairo but he chooses to spend his holidays in the Far-East, well thanks to the European Union travel ban otherwise he would have been globe trotting throughout the world.
Now that Mugabe is on the loose, a man who is good at destroying and well-known for his racist and divisive remarks, it only leaves us to wonder what the African leaders saw in him which us Zimbabweans and the rest of world failed to see.
Those countries which are in turmoil should now only pin their hope on Miracles. Mugabe’s appointment as AU chair lives us with one conclusion about Africa, that is we have a very serious leadership crisis not only Zimbabwe but now in Africa as a whole.
David Mbinga is the Provincial Secretary of the MDC-T youth assembly in the United Kingdom and Ireland Province. He can be contacted on [email protected]
