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Senile Mugabe not voice of Zimbabwe

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via Senile Mugabe not voice of Zimbabwe – Zimbabwe Vigil Diary: 13th December 2014  13 December 2014

The Vigil has delivered a letter to the Ghanaian High Commission in London apologising for the insulting remarks about Ghana made by Mugabe at the Zanu PF Congress. We are particularly concerned because senile Mugabe is the President-elect of the African Union and is bringing the whole of Africa not just Zimbabwe into world ridicule. The letter reads:

 

Dear High Commissioner

 

Zimbabweans exiled in the United Kingdom apologise to the people of Ghana for the ill-informed and gratuitously insulting comments about their country made by our illegitimate President Robert Mugabe.

 

Speaking at the ruling Zanu-PF’s recent Congress, Mugabe said: ‘I have been to Ghana, 1958 – 1960, and when you look at them now and compare their present situation to that which existed in the 1960s, no change. There might be more people yes. There may be one road from the airport that has been well done. That’s about all. No change.’

 

What makes these ignorant remarks so offensive to us as well is because of the high regard in Zimbabwe for Mugabe’s Ghanaian-born first wife Sally, who was betrayed by Mugabe on her deathbed in favour of his current wife Grace.

 

We commend former Ghanaian President John Kufuor for his restrained response to Mugabe’s senile drivelling. Mr Kafuor said Mugabe’s comments were his own ‘opinion’ but noted ‘Ghana has made some fantastic improvements since the 1960s’ (see:  http://www.newzimbabwe.com/news-19324-Ghana+ex-president+dismisses+Mugabe/news.aspx).

 

Mr Kafuor also pointed out that Ghana is a democracy which allows people to express themselves freely. We at the Zimbabwe Vigil represent some of the millions of people who have fled Zimbabwe where Mugabe has rigged successive elections to stay in power.

 

We would point out that Ghana is not the only country to have been insulted by Mugabe. Nigeria has also been traduced while Jamaicans – who used to be firm Mugabe followers – have been dismissed as ignorant drug addicts.

 

Yours sincerely, Zimbabwe Vigil

 

We in the UK look around in the streets of London, Luton, Leicester etc and find fellow Zimbabweans but a distinct absence of Ghanaians driven into exile by oppression and poverty. Perhaps, as Mugabe says, it’s the absence of roads in Ghana . . .

 

Speaking of Zimbabweans in the UK, the Vigil is alarmed that so many of them are Zanu PF supporters. Evidence of this came in recent photos in the Zimbabwean media here of a Zanu PF meeting in the UK which showed enthusiastic support for Mugabe. A Vigil supporter said that this was because they were promised farms or other favours if they returned to Zimbabwe. Confirmation of Zanu PF’s popularity in the UK came in a report in The Herald about corruption in the selling of Zanu PF membership cards. Zanu PF says about $400,000 can’t be accounted for and cites, as an example, that South Africa received 3,000 cards but 2,881 of them had yet to be accounted for. In contrast, ‘the United Kingdom received an equal number but sold all the 3,000 cards’ (see: https://www.zimbabwesituation.com/news/zimsit-m-400k-membership-cards-missing-the-herald/ – $400k membership cards missing).

 

Since Zimbabweans in the UK are, because of Britain’s legislative backlog, entitled to vote in next May’s knife-edge general election, even if they are not UK citizens, Zanu PF supporters here could consider forming a lobby group promoting Mugabe’s values. Given the anxiety about the number of immigrants coming to this country, the British might be attracted by the call for indigenisation! They should call on the veteran Green Party MP, Caroline Lucas, who is on record for her praise of Mugabe’s inspirational policies.

 

 

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