The fraudulent outcome of this election was no surprise to me at all. Unlike in the past when they have resorted to violence to achieve their end goal, this time around the rigging involved miscounting, chasing away voters and fraudulently printing receipts – among many other things.
07.08.13 by Baba Jukwa | The Zimbabwean
There is no doubt that Mugabe and his party’s policies are deeply hated by most Zimbabweans. However, the question that those who still feel shocked and saddened by Mugabe’s so-called victory is how did he pull off this grand robbery of all time?
Zanu (PF) knew most Zimbabweans were well aware of its disastrous economic policies and no one would be interested in voting for the party. Zanu (PF) knew, as we all did, that it was not going to win this election. With their back to the wall they had no option but to rig resoundingly. Their ace was the voters roll. They started working on the voters’ roll seven months before the elections – duplicating names, substituting perceived MDC sympathisers, adding ghost voters and some who have been dead for the last five decades.
Some two million voters were removed and rogue youths were bussed to vote for them in army barracks. In the weeks leading up to the election, some Chinese were contracted to add to the rigging. Their job was to print extra ballot papers in various secret locations and in the end some four million extra papers were printed for the rigging exercise.
Mugabe was very confident of the rigging exercise. He had no need to actively campaign. No wonder at the end Mugabe had to do only 10 rallies to rubber stamp their devilish manipulation. But our citizenry isn’t stupid – and as such will defend our right to choose our leaders freely without manipulation or cohesion.
As Zimbabweans, our only option is to relentlessly hunt down those who robbed us of our victory. This is the only option we have and we will pursue it vigorously.
It’s good that the MDC has decided to pull out their so-called elected members in defiance. It’s a step in the right direction. We all remember how Mugabe ridiculed Zuma’s advisor Lindiwe Zulu in the built up to the elections calling her a street kid and a whore when she pointed out irregularities in the preparations for the elections.
We can no longer afford to negotiate in good faith. We tired of these quasi-democratic channels that only serve to extend the evil of Zanu (PF). Now it’s the time to reclaim what is ours because Zanu (PF) has once again shown that it’s clueless about democracy and leadership.
It’s true that God is interested in the political, economic, and social and leadership challenges of every nation, tribe, tongue, kindred and people, and when those in authority become so tyrannical and dictatorial, God uses the lowly means most times to bring shame to the wise and powerful according to world standards.
God never bestows positional and personal power as an end in itself, but always as a trust to be exercised with stewardship for the benefit of others. Leaders who misuse his trust by squandering it on extending their own egos through oppressing and manipulating others will ultimately give an account to the One who gave them their power in the first place. – Asijiki, Ndatenda, Baba Jukwa
COMMENTS
Shame, what a shame for this silly ass to rear its ugly head again. So what became of the wildly exaggerated survey that you conducted, showing MDC winning more than 80%
of the vote? Baba Jukwa, you are a hopeless lier and a good fiction teller. You are not a Zanu pf insider. You are not even who you say you are. In fact, you are a group of individuals working under the supervision of a foreign spy and his runners, who are found in Econet, Telecel, Net One and other strategic bodies/entities. This is how you managed to get people’s telephone numbers etc. The net is closing in on all of you. When the country hits back, you will not even know what hit you. The pieces are being put together and soon you will be exposed and dead. You are a loughing stock now. All the fame you gained, the claims you made, all came to nothing!!!! Doesn’t that mean something to you??? In 2008, MDC used to say ‘Busa sibone” now they cannot even say so because we can rule without MDC. The planned boycott of parliament that you call a ‘step in the right direction’ is meaningless because just after the stipulated sittings of parliament, then the parliamentary constituencies concerned become vacant and we to for bi-elections, where Zanu pf will finish off all the MDC seats in Harare and MDC N will finish off those in Bulawayo and there goes MDC-Sheet.
What a load of gibberish you write, typical Zanoid rubbish!!
What a load of hogwash, typical of a mugabe ar*e-hole kisser.
bootylicker
Who is this guy? Is he worth listen to?..and how is this..” hunting down those who robbed us of our victory” supposed to be achieved? This is serious, don’t take people for granted, it’s not a game. To be honest very few people are surprised by the vote rigging it’s the magnitude by which it was done,,shocking!! .