By Togarepi Pupurai
The quest for power should never ever replace our humanness
and the inherent spirit of Ubuntu that is the hallmark of our people, either in
their deeds or spirit. Such virtues that are found in Zimbabwe should never be
supplanted by self-seeking politicians or power-hungry individuals who pander
to the whims and caprices of our erstwhile colonisers.
It is sad that today as the country seeks to come to terms
with the disappearance of Peter Magombeyi, the opposition is celebrating, so
are some embassies in Harare, the morbid celebrations are a result of a mission
accomplished, at least in the eyes and hearts of the MDC-Alliance and it’s
handlers.
The idea is to damage the reputation of our country, the
people of Zimbabwe and also the ruling party Zanu-PF.
As the Zanu-PF Youth League, we hope that Peter is safe and
whoever has him, which we dare say is the MDC-A or one of the ever scheming
embassies in particular the US embassy, return him to his family, friends ,
workmates and indeed the nation at large safe and sound with no injuries, and
indeed to tell the real story of who took him.
This sad development has no place in a progressive country
let alone in the Second Republic, where commitments have been made, and are
indeed guaranteed from the highest office that this is a New Dispensation that
respects human rights and other liberties enshrined in our Constitution.
Having said that, we find it utterly disgusting that there
are some elements who want to use the disappearance of Peter for political
mileage, no, we should never sacrifice our conscience as a nation on the alter
of expediency, we are better than that and the polarisation resident in our
nation should not blind us from seeing the obvious. The MDC-A, more than anyone
else think they stand to benefit from Peter’s disappearance and should tell us
where they hid him.
It begs answers, why would Zanu-PF abduct a doctor who
serves the people and saves life?
Why would the Zanu-PF Government seek to bring unnecessary
negative publicity when the President is due to be at the United Nations in New
York, marketing brand Zimbabwe?
And indeed why would we score an own goal by carrying such
dastardly acts when a special UN envoy is on our soil assessing our human
rights record?
The simple answer to the above is that Zanu-PF, as the
governing party, would never under the sun, engage or allow such acts of
banditry which tarnishes the image we are working around the clock to spruce
and put in good stead after decades of isolation, to take place.
Indeed, common sense shows that there are elements in this
country hell bent on derailing the progress that Zanu-PF is making, there is a
third and sinister hand trying to rock the boat and cause maximum damage to our
re-engagement efforts, these shenanigans, which I am afraid, have the
fingerprints of the country’s clumsy opposition party masquerades and their
puppeteers all over, are meant to deliver the killer punch and return the
country to a pariah State that is unsafe, inhabitable, and perpetually
ostracised from the rest of the world. The MDC-A and some embassies are no
doubt the third force.
We know the MDC-A has trained militias, we also know they
have torture houses which they lie are safe houses, and we also know that the
MDC-A, that consorts with nations which imposed sanctions on us to blunt our
recovery prospects, want to inflict maximum damage by fair or foul means.
Last year, in free and fair elections, the MDC-A failed a
fair contest and lost the polls to President Mnangagwa and Zanu-PF.
Now the MDC-A is fast becoming a rag tag opposition
movement which seeks to cause anarchy through acts of terror such as
abductions. MDC-A is a terrorist organisation led by power-hungry surrogates of
imperialism.
We are shocked the US embassy is wining and dining with
terrorists.
Look at the coincidence, history tells us that whenever we
have an international engagement the attention-seeking opposition always come
up with antics.
I will not belabour the point that there is a third force
with links to the former G40 faction suffice to say after failing to use the
body of our late president to sneak back into the country and escape their
crimes, these forces will now stop at nothing to cause alarm and despondency in
the country.
Dear countryman, let us remain vigilant because the enemy
wants to cause anarchy, but we know what they are, who they are and what they
represent.
The merchants of evil and their evil machinations are
destined to fail in their attempts to stop the unstoppable train towards Vision
2030 that is being steered by President Mnangagwa.
The writer is the
Secretary for Youth Affairs and Chief Whip of the ruling Zanu-PF party. Herald
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