via Top cop, teachers chant ZANU PF slogans – NewZimbabwe 18 February 2015
A TOP police officer and school heads from across Chivi district in Masvingo took turns to chant Zanu PF slogans at a development conference at the weekend.
Senior Assistant Commissioner Silence Pondo led a cast of civil servants and other government workers who took turns to chant “Pamberi neZanu PF, naVaMugabe, namai Grace Mugabe”.
The conference, convened by eccentric Chivi Rural District Council chairperson Killer Zivhu, was meant to pull resources and ideas together to turn around the fortunes of the semi-arid district.
Zivhu called on all those born in the district to chip in with “whatever you can and afford so that we extricate our home area from the precipice. Our people are on the verge of starvation and we need to do something as a matter of urgency”.
“As leaders and those with the means and born in this area, let us come together and assist. The time for promises is over. We want action,” said Zivhu.
Zivhu has in the past few years built orphanages and houses for the less-privileged members in the district while late last year he introduced a heifer program for traditional leaders that is meant to assist orphans and widows with tillage.
In April last year Pondo was grilled by a parliamentary committee on allegations that he was behind massive pilfering of gold through the Police Minerals Squad of which he was the head.
Legislators quizzed Pondo on how the police force handled minerals recovered from crime scenes including diamonds from Chiadzwa.
Pondo was later transferred by Police Commissioner General Augustine Chihuri in an internal clean-up exercise that also saw Oliver Chibage fired on charges of corruption.
Opposition parties in Zimbabwe have always argued that the ruling party has compromised government institutions with little difference between the former guerrilla movement and the State.
COMMENTS
Sad, yes very, very sad. Where in the policing world would you get a Senior Assistant Commissioner…yes a Senior Assistant Commissioner!…in a police service chanting such stupid and brainless slogans…and at the same time completely compromising his senior position in society by chanting them, with leading people in the teaching profession.
Of course, if you are a senior policeman that has been stealing gold and diamond exhibits, and were under a cloud for that, you might do such a stupid thing. Not with any real belief in the slogans, but simply as a career saving strategy. I can only just imagine what the senior educationalists were up to, to persuade them of their need to so chant.
No wonder that we have policemen running around arresting poor people, for simply saying that Mugabe is old, or that Grace is too ambitious. The truth of the matter is that Mugabe is more than very old, he is also a thief and a scoundrel and has the blood of many of “his people” on his hands. And his young wife Grace is gearing up to follow exactly in his footsteps…step by brutal step.
On further reflection I think that Senior Assistant Commissioner Pondo should pay more attention to his first name…but there again, perhaps his love for his second name might have been what got him into trouble in the Police Minerals Squad.
Assistant Comm… Silence! Please my head is aching with your vitriol tripe!