The recent threatening of chiefs by Mugabe at the official
opening of the Annual Chiefs’ Conference in Masvingo was very mischievous and
unwarranted.
Mugabe has been shamelessly using the chiefs as his puppets,
in toy-toying the impoverished and downtrodden peasants in rural areas to
polling stations for the past three decades. Some traditional chiefs have ignorantly
become Mugabe’s ruthless agents of oppression by acting as coercing stooges of
his brutal Zanu PF regime. Others have adamantly refused to be used.
Now, Mugabe has gone on a crusade of intimidating those enlightened
chiefs who have refused to be sodomised by him. In actual fact, these chiefs have
strongly denied being part of the regime of nonentities and scoundrels which now
hovers between abject paralysis and mass destruction. These unfortunate threats
and utterances against traditional chiefs only serve to isolate Mugabe and his clique
and expose their cynicism and recklessness.
Mugabe is accusing the chiefs of being fronts for former
white farmers and he regrettably threatened that those who are doing as such
must beware. Knowing Mugabe, those accused chiefs must take his threat very
seriously, but they must also live in the comfort that the people of Zimbabwe
are by their side. When a chicken wants
to eat its eggs it starts
by accusing them of looking like and
smelling like big peanuts. Now that the people know, we will keep vigilant and
make sure that the chiefs targeted by Mugabe and his cronies do not fall prey
to these monstrous Zanu PF goons. If they do then Mugabe will be held
responsible.
As we have seen in one
Chief Negomo, Mugabe has encouraged stupid and unprincipled chiefs to be a menace
and a total disgrace to their subjects and Zimbabwe as a whole. Chief Negomo is
irrational and unintelligent, for he has no defining parameter to
determine what is humanly unacceptable.
The tragedy for the people of Zimbabwe is that they live in
a country dominated by men who are comfortable being chiefs of empty and paralysed
villages. Most of the chiefs, especially in Mashonaland East were accomplices
in the brutalisation and victimisation of villagers by callous zombies in the
service of a repressive Zanu PF regime. We must never allow this to happen,
ever again.
Chief Charumbira (Fortune Charumbira) who is Chiefs council President openly supports Zanu
PF and Mugabe who has sanctioned debauchery, infamy and terror on defenceless
peasants in 2008. Ironically, Fortune does not see anything bad about a regime
that dehumanises the human personality by its brutality and terror. People like
Fortune and Lucias Chitsimbe must be reminded that they are accomplices of
heinous crimes committed by the Mugabe regime, and as such, we will probe into
the madness which allowed a handful of misfits to destroy an entire country and
murder defenceless villagers in 2008.
In his article: Crisis of communal leadership: post colonial
local government reform and administrative conflict with traditional authority
in communal areas in Zimbabwe 1980 – 2008, Dr Godfrey Tabona Ncube warned
that chiefs have lost their historical role as custodians of tradition and
culture, and that they have become political agents and puppets of the
post-colonial state, who now frequently participate in the oppression of their
subjects.
Indeed most of the chiefs have become thieves and agents of
backwardness. Lucias attempted a daylight robbery when he, in hallucination,
demanded US$ 1 million from Pip Mattison after summoning him to appear in a
traditional court for destroying a maize field. He is the same man who had the
audacity to summon Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister and the next President of
Zimbabwe, to his Zanu PF jungle court for a matter that was a personal issue to
the PM and he had no business in it. Thief Negomo is a nuisance parasite designed
to swindle people of their hard earned fortune on behalf of Zanu PF.
On the other hand, Fortune was busy making an attempt to rob
the Tongaat Hullet Company when he summoned its directors to a traditional
court after they failed to turn up for an all stakeholders’ conference on the
Masvingo Community Ownership Share Trust last year. His intentions were to
swindle the Tongaat Hullet Company by forcing it to pay “a fine” in millions
for failing to turn up. Fortune also wanted to rob Accacia Motors of its labour
by refusing to pay a US$2 500
debt owed to the Harare garage following repairs done on his motor vehicles. Proprietors
of Accacia Motors had to take the matter to the High Court seeking an order
compelling the traditional leader to pay up.
This is the calibre of some of our traditional Chiefs and surprisingly,
Mugabe has successfully convinced such outfits that chiefs are an extension of
Zanu PF and that he (Mugabe) can grant them all the powers on earth to do
whatever they want. All this is happening after Mugabe ruthlessly withdrew
monthly allowances for Chief Ziki of Bikita District and Chief Sengwe of
Chiredzi District, both in the southern Masvingo Province for allegedly backing
the MDC-T party in 2008.
With only a few miles left to reach the Promised Land, what some
of these chiefs who are behaving like lunatics need to realise is that what
goes around comes around. It is entirely up to them to remain aboard a sinking
old Zvimba designed vessel or to jump onto a sailing and modern designed Buhera
yacht. Foward with Tsvangirai!!!!.
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