WHAT INSANITY: You have business partners who dribble one another. In the ensuing fallout, one of them allegedly name-drops in order to scare away the rest. I am supposed to be exercised by such a bald form of self-defense through name-dropping on the part of a party to the dispute?
The offensive name
dropping automatically indicts the President and Government? Claims don’t
become true because they have been made. Or because some detractors of His
Excellency the President, Dr ED Mnangagwa, in chorus form wish them to be so.
ZEC is an independent Commission protected by the law.
It enters into contracts as it sees fit, and in terms of
the laws of the country. Government may not interfere in its decisions, without
raising fundamental questions on the Commission’s independence. No one should
incite Government into breaking the law by diminishing ZEC’s status as a legal
persona. Besides, it cannot answer for itself. No one has approached it for a
comment, in the current mad stampede to self-interview, and to become a
self-appointed jury. As for Starlink, aaaah, nothing couldn’t be more absurd.
At the risk of sounding stupid, let me remind everyone,
including Trevor Ncube’s NewsDay, that Starlink is not a govt parastatal. Who
it goes into partnership with is its business. Unless one is beside oneself,
one cannot cite Cde Chivhayo’s deal with Starlink - whatever it is or amounts
to - as evidence that he is being favoured in the award and issuance of
Government tenders. There is no Government in Starlink; there is no Govt tender
either! His Excellency the President merely announced Government’s authorisation
of the service, after positive recommendations from a Cabinet Committee set up
to advise Government on the prudence or otherwise of allowing the satellite
service in the country.
On the whole, claims meant to intimidate others involved in a partnership so far away from the domain of Government, cannot be an issue for the President, his Office, or Government as a whole. Is it not interesting that no one in the censorious formal or social media has taken the trouble to interview Wicknell Chivhayo, firstly to authenticate the voice clip; secondly to hear his side of the story? Why does one get the sense there is a determination to sow and cultivate mere tall claims whose relationship to the media-accused is yet to be proven, hoping that such claims will one day attach to the President, grow and mature into some non-existent scandal enormous enough to trip him? Nothing can be more insane! Dhonzamusoro007 writing on X
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