via Mugabe’s silence frightening – DailyNews Live 2 December 2014
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe must take the opportunity presented by the Zanu PF congress this week to show leadership qualities and stop factionalists and youths who are threatening violence against Vice President Joice Mujuru and her perceived backers during the party’s 6th congress in Harare.
The veteran Zimbabwe leader has largely been quiet as his wife Grace aided by a faction led by Justice minister Emmerson Mnangagwa has used crude propaganda tactics and threats of violence against senior officials like Mujuru.
Now the damp squib congress is in disarray and once violence erupts as is likely, then it will embarrass not only the 90-year-old president, but the entire nation as foreign dignitaries and diplomats will be closely monitoring proceedings.
Elsewhere in this edition, we carry a story that thugs have been hired to boo, harass and intimidate Mujuru and her backers but we urge the president to use all powers vested in him to stop this charade which is being sponsored by a faction which will stop at nothing to achieve power.
While genuine war veterans and liberation heroes are agreed that the faction has blindfolded Mugabe and hijacked the party, we still feel that the Zanu PF leader should say something about all this noise otherwise we might end up having serious violence which might spread and affect the whole country.
Mugabe cannot allow a rogue youth like Godfrey Gomwe to publicly harass and threaten the country’s vice president as if we live in a failed State, where lawlessness rules supreme. Who is Gomwe to threaten anarchy at the Zanu PF congress? Mugabe should tell Gomwe and those sponsoring him that Zimbabwe is a peaceful country where thugs cannot threaten the country’s leaders and get away with it.
Mugabe’s silence on these issues is frightening because Mujuru and over 100 ministers and Members of Parliament who support her cannot freely attend the congress if the violence tool is to be invoked.
Police commissioner general Augustine Chihuri’s troops must remain professional in dealing with potential thuggery at the congress and so far to their credit, they have remained on the right side of the law. All other law enforcement agencies must display extreme professionalism in dealing with potential violence at the congress.
Zimbabweans are generally peaceful and we are not interested in violence which will achieve nothing but further destroy our economy. Surely, everything cannot stop working because Zanu PF, a ruling party which does not know how to rule, is holding its congress.
COMMENTS
Mugabe cannot allow a rogue youth like Godfrey Gomwe to publicly harass and threaten the country’s vice president as if we live in a failed State,………
What a daydreamer! So, Zim is not a failed state nhai? Sure mamwe madofo regayi akandigwe mumabhini. Chidofo ridziyi chinotadzisa murume/mukadzi mukuru kuvona kuti we are indeed living in a failed state?
Anyway: How does this lunatic define a failed state?
read well comrade hanzi AS IF WE LIVE IN A FAILED STATE.. hazvina kunzi WE LIVE IN A FAILED STATE…..
do not be tht type tht talk faster than they think or read
“Mugabe cannot allow a rogue youth like Godfrey Gomwe……” or “Mugabe’s silence on these issues is frightening….”
Well, Mugabe is behaving like a 90 year old that he is. And its amazing that people still think he loses sleep over what is happening around him. Lets get real here please!!
Zimbabwe failed as a state in 1997. You mustn’t speak as if Mugabe is a real leader as you portray him here, the man has used violence and intimidation throughout his entire presidency. Scales are tipping in his favour and he can’t say anything. Knowing that man is very very old I think he is paying more attention to his health more than anything, I cannot believe that we even expect a thing from that monsterous man. What leader in their conscious mind can leave a beautiful country like ours to it’s demise and millions dying as a result, unfazed by all that as long as he’s got power and those close to him are happy…….I can say Mugabe is the worst dictator africa has seen so far..
Is it not way too obvious, that Mugabe is the engineer of the chaos. Mnangagwa faction might have unleashed Grace, but Mugabe has allowed them because, he Mugabe wants to be a life president. Since 1980, how many times have we heard, of attempted coups or murder plots against Mugabe, yet no one has been convicted. If it is accepted that Mujuru, has had the majority of central committee support, why then could she possibly plot a coup against Mugabe. If she plotted coup, how come she has not been arrested ? Its all a farce.
“Mugabe is the engineer of the chaos”
It is his small-scale version of Stalin’s purges or Mao’s Cultural Revolution.
Dear article writer you must be afraid when Mugabe speaks. In my experience nothing good has come from him though I hear lots of people singing his praises and I ask myself whether it is stupidity or fear of being labelled traitors or mercenary attitude that inspires the praise!
Mugabe is the one causing the divisions. How can you expect him to show leadership in solving what he is deliberately causing. That’s been his modus operandi – divide and rule, since the days of Dr Joshua Nkomo and PF ZAPU in the 1980s.