By Patrick Zhuwao
Reports are coming through that the military Junta is
incubating the establishment of a copy-cat to the National Patriotic Front
(NPF) to be called the ZNPF in an effort to derail the real NPF.
The reports indicate that this copy-cat ZNPF junta project
will seek to hijack the membership of the real NPF and subsume them under the
leadership of Saviour Kasukuwere.
Kasukuwere has been reported at some meetings of the real
NPF as either having arrived in Zimbabwe or as being on the verge of landing in
Zimbabwe in an effort to tie his supposed leadership of the copy-cat ZNPF junta
project with the real NPF.
This ZBR is being written for the express purpose of
putting on the record that I, as Patrick Zhuwao, am not part of Kasukuwere’s
current political shenanigans and manoeuvring.
The Zhuwao Brief Reloaded Article 16 (ZBR16)o be more
specific, I do not support nor subscribe to the notion that Kasukuwere should
lead the real NPF.
Having politically interacted with Kasukuwere since joining
the ZANU PF Youth League’s National Executive over one and a half decades ago,
I am not convinced that he is an appropriate person to lead the real NPF.
Furthermore, the founders of the NPF, of which Kasukuwere
is not one, have categorically stated that Professor Jonathan Moyo, Honourable
Saviour Kasukuwere and Honourable Patrick Zhuwao should not form part of the
founding leadership of NPF.
As a co-founder of NPF, I fully associate myself with that
position and have indicated as much in previous instalments of the ZBR and
privately to Kasukuwere himself.
Some of the reasons for my taking such a position include
the fact that Kasukuwere has been actively discouraging efforts towards the
establishment of the real NPF up to a point where I stopped engaging him on the
progress of that endeavour.
Kasukuwere’s interactions with the military junta at its
highest levels have also made it inconceivable for him to play a significant
role in the real NPF, let alone lead it, since the real NPF was established to
dismantle the junta.
Kasukuwere’s dogged determination to return to a Zimbabwe
that is under the yoke of the military junta has also left me questioning his
motives. The only way in which someone walks into a dangerously fatally
situation is if they have been given assurances for their safety. Given the
threat that the real NPF poses to the military junta, it is conceivable that
such a guarantee can only have been secured by way of a commitment to derail
the real NPF.
This is why I am taking seriously the reports of a copy-cat
ZNPF under the leadership of Kasukuwere as a junta project to derail the real
NPF.
As a co-founder of the real NPF, it is important that I
articulate my position publicly to all Zimbabweans so that it is abundantly
clear that the real NPF can NEVER be a junta project.
I will never support the copy-cat ZNPF junta project
because its principle objective is to derail the efforts of the real NPF
towards dismantling the military junta in control of Zimbabwe.
The real NPF was formed, partly, to provide a political
home for those orphaned by the military takeover of ZANU PF and not as a means
for the self–aggrandisement of those with unbridled political ambitions.
The real NPF stands for the broad based socio-economic
transformation of all Zimbabweans in an inclusive and collective manner in
accordance to the maxim encapsulated in the slogan: Iwe neni tine basa.
Umsebenzi loUmkhulu.
Asante Sana. 263chat
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