via Back or sack Mujuru, Makoni dares Bob 21/10/2014
OPPOSITION Mavambo leader, Simba Makoni, has challenged President Robert Mugabe to break his silence and publicly defend his Vice-President Joice Mujuru and some of his top lieutenants who have been subjected to abuse by his wife, Grace.
Makoni, who was addressing a press conference in Harare, denounced the controversial first lady for being “disruptive and usurping the powers of the state president”.
Grace has over the past four weeks travelled around the country addressing Zanu PF rallies where she publicly attacked Mujuru and senior party officials for plotting against her husband.
Top Zanu PF politicians such as Mashonaland East chairman, Ray Kaukonde, and Calistus Ndlovu, who chairs the party’s Bulawayo province, were not spared the insults.
But Makoni said Mugabe, who has maintained strange silence during his wife’s largely unpopular crusade, should stand up for once and protect government officials who are serving the nation at his pleasure.
“The President of Zimbabwe needs to come clean and open and defend his vice-president or act otherwise if he does not have confidence anymore in his vice-president,” he said.
“What is his position about all this because his ministers vari kusakurwa masikati machena ivo vakangonyarara ndosaka ndichiti kuda vari pamwe, asi hazvisi zvemhurika izvi, nyika yeZimbabwe haisi yemhuri. Ndeyedu tese.”
Since Grace Mugabe started her campaign, Mugabe has gone underground, surfacing only once to cap graduates at a state university.
The former finance minister also accused the first lady of “straying into the territory” of the State President after she dressed down cabinet ministers and other public officials during her countrywide tours.
Said Makoni: “Has he abdicated his responsibilities to the people of Zimbabwe, in deference to his wife? Is he condoning the disparaging remarks she is making about ministers he appointed, and whom he supervises?
“We state here, even though it is apparent, that Zimbabwe is not a dynasty, and we call on the people of Zimbabwe, especially the leaders and other members of Zanu PF, to resist the dynastisation of our country,” he said.
“She complained when people were walking out of the stadium in Bulawayo and said it’s disrespectful but she is the first example of disrespect,” Makoni said.
“Everything she is doing is disrespectful of the people of Zimbabwe, of the head of state and government of Zimbabwe, of ministers of the government of Zimbabwe and all these people that she is haranguing.
“As private citizens they have a right to protect and defend their dignity; I would not sit there and be harangued in the manner that she is doing.”
Makoni further condemned Grace for her double speak for persistently accusing party rivals of using money to buy votes within the beleaguered ruling party while she carried with her bags of seed, fertiliser and food for distribution at her rallies.
The former finance minister further rebuked Zanu PF apologists who have vowed they will not let any Zimbabwean leader with no liberation war credentials to emerge and yet have allowed Grace, who was 14 when the country attained independence, to lay claim to the presidency.
COMMENTS
“A bully with a bruised nose, is still a bully.” If I remember well, these wise words were from one of our revered departed wise man.
In short, I find it surprising that some opposition ‘people” (I avoided calling them “leaders’ for one obvious reason: I don’t see any followers behind them)falling on each other to defend Joice Mujuru.
Surely, if Joice could come out all guns blazing to defend the Cashberts and all other parastatal bosses for looting state enterprises then why wouldn’t she defend herself, in this particular case?
You opposition guys are much better off concentrating on the rotation of CODE chairmanship than trying to outdo each other in meddling in internal zanu pf politics. Or, better still if you have nothing better to say to the suffering people of Zimbabwe then don’t say it. Nxaaaaaaa. nxaaaaaaa.
Mapingu, are another ZANU PF thief? The main points made by Makoni are that Disgrace has travelled around the country trashing Joice Mujuru. You think she is guilty of amassing great wealth by dubious means. If amassing great wealth by dubious means were a crime in Zanu PF then all of ZANU PFs leadership would be in jail along with the Judiciary and senior members of the Civil Service, Police and Military.
Mupinga has a valid point Why should the so called opposition parties be worried about zanupf instead of capitalizing on the issue. Does Makoni want Mujuru to lead Zim? Vukani, Let Grace destroy zany pf and smart politicians should capitalize. No need to defend her, one zanu pf less to worry about.
Mugabe is such a coward, I cannot see him taking any action on anything. That’s the reason why he send in his wife to do the dirty work for him.
I think Bob is dead
politics is a dirty game remember amai was appointed ahead of someone who had won the provincial nominations. she was very happy and that someone never complained whats wrong now if the same thing happens to thee.
Can someone please silence this uneducated human excrement we call disgrace. Truly she is an absolute idiot if she thinks she can hoodwink us, furthermore when her equally stinky and distasteful husband bites the dust which will be any time soon we will be coming to reclaim what she stole from the people of Zimbabwe and she knows it that’s why she making so much noise. The end is nigh for her and her bogus family none shall be spared
MWARI HUYAYI MUTI NUNURE TATSVA ,TANZWA ….AMEN