When hooligans masquerade as citizens

27 Jan, 2019 - 00:01 0 Views
When hooligans masquerade as citizens Mr Chamisa

The Sunday News

Apostle Anglistone T Sokhulu Sibanda
I CONDEMN all forms violence and the use of force on anyone and do remind people that human life is sacred and nobody has a right to injure, inflict pain or take away another person’s life.

The actions by thugs and terror gangs as well as the instigators are not only barbaric, old fashioned and evil, they are in fact satanic and unacceptable in our nation. They are counter developmental and invite God’s judgment upon a nation. Zimbabwe is going through yet another sad spate of history when thugoracy or mobocracy reigns supreme and leaves a trail of destruction.

When thugs and thieves hijack the citizens’ space and purport to be ordinary citizens, having been hired by evil power hungry politicians who would rather have the whole country razed down in order to caress their egos, logical thinking and human rights gets trampled upon and the country thrown into a crisis, where the poor become poorer and suffering of the masses is perpetuated to the advantage of greedy and selfish politicians.

When one dares write or say the truth, they are rubbished and attacked, they are cyber bullied by the cyber bulls whose shallow minds have no common sense but a fixation of their souls in grabbing power by all means necessary, indeed the end justifies the means. The current economic challenges in Zimbabwe is not just an economic crisis but a political crisis where illegitimate contenders of power use citizens as tools to claim legitimacy.

The country is thrown into a quandary by thieves and looters of varying degrees and stature and the impact of the stealing, looting and wanton destruction is felt not by the same looters but by the ordinary citizens whose voices get silenced violently and rights thrown into abyss by those contending for political power. Monday 14 of January will go down in history as the black day when citizens’ rights were taken away first by hired thugs, hoodlums and hooligans who flooded the roads, blocking traffic, burning tyres, destroying property, looting shops in the neighbourhood and burning them down, stoning police officers to death in the name of democracy.

All that was a well planned strategy aimed at pushing Nelson Chamisa into Government via the back door under the guise of “ordinary citizens” sadly using children in the process and instilling such a bad culture into their mindsets. Where did this begin? Did it start after the Head of State and Government announced fuel price hikes? If l may divert your attention a bit, is fuel in Zimbabwe the most expensive in the world as people have been made to believe? Certainly not, the hullabaloo is politically motivated.

Fuel had become the cheapest in the world going for less than US0.40 per litre, implying huge losses on Government and the importers, creating an unsustainable situation. What boggles the mind is that the MDCA and its partners, ZCTU knew the truth that the fuel price adjustments were necessary and inevitable but chose to play politics and hoodwink citizens into action through pressing a social media panic button and cyber criminals sending fake news to cause public panic and despondency.

For example, there were photoshopped pictures of Mazoe orange crush going for $29.99 circulating on Whatsapp but no one saw that in reality. Mazoe orange crush is going for $6-$8 in most shops. The real issue at hand is the issue of salaries that have been eroded by the price hikes and the argument over the payments of salaries in USD which is not sustainable because the country is not exporting enough. On those issues I support the labour unions and urge the Government to act urgently in addressing the genuine labour issues.

However, on the fuel price hikes, anyone using their right mind to think without polluted political lenses would know that our fuel had become too cheap and the country was running a huge loss. Who triggered the violence, is it Government through announcing price hikes? I refuse to be myopic and shallow, we Zimbabweans have a very short memory and we seldom analyse events and statements and link them to a broad understanding of geo-political situation. We always tend to isolate incidents and events when those are in fact systematic and well orchestrated.

The bloody stay away did not just happen, it is a result of several months of planning and large sums of money that have been put together. It is the effect of a well oiled and well funded system that seeks to destabilise the country and make it ungovernable.

Those who dare to remember would recall the spirited comments by Chamisa in the run up to July 31 elections where he said “we will not accept any result whose winner is not ourselves”. The notion of making the country ungovernable was put into play and we are witnessing that script being played and becoming a reality.

The country is being made ungovernable by the MDC and its partners hiding behind “citizens.” If indeed they are not involved, why does Chamisa call those who have been arrested for arson, murder, looting etc “political prisoners”? Since when do thieves and arsonists become political prisoners if they have not always been political activists. Chamisa has infact claimed ownership of those people and must be held to account. He has exposed himself and his friends who are hiding and if indeed those in hiding are innocent citizens why are they hiding?

The truth is that the violent protests were well planned way before elections when activists went for trainings and what we see unfolding is the result of the trainings.

When Linda Masarira wrote and even went to testify before the Motlanthe Commission that activists were trained in Cape Town and in Livingstone on how to mobilise citizens into action, she was insulted, ridiculed and cyber bullied but the truth is that the violent protests are not just an ordinary citizens reaction to fuel price hikes but a well planned strategy that is being implemented to get Nelson Chamisa into Government by all means necessary. Sadly it seems the Government did not anticipate that.

I watched hooligans in action at Entumbane in Bulawayo where the popular “thwala okukwanisayo” happened and having been a leader of one of the influential residents associations, met with some of our members and discussed about what was happening. Judging from the comments, those youths that led the violence were not ordinary citizens as the world had been made to believe.

There are certain traits, patterns and behaviours that are known of the people of Bulawayo and those youths do not fit in the Bulawayo societal trends. It is vividly clear that those thugs who blocked kombis were first fewer that the majority who wanted to go to work. If they had not enlisted the services of those thugs from Cabatsha squatter camp where MDC leaders (names withheld for fear of victimisation) usually bus jobless, homeless and desperate people to use in either rigging their primaries or as tools for violence, the stay away would have flopped.

Indeed the state could not sit down and fold hands. The world and indeed some of you in the diaspora and a majority who have no correct information of what has been happening under cover, have been fooled into believing that the protests were innocent.

Yes, the strike by doctors and teachers etc, is purely a labour issue but has also been hijacked by regime change elements who want to use the economic crisis that has been brewing over 20 years to hoodwink citizens into overthrowing a constitutionally elected Government.

The next period of changing a Government is in 2023 through an election and anything before that is illegal and proponents must know that the charge for that is treason. They cry loud about the rule of law, they must prove that they believe in the rule of law by following the law and wait for 2023. In as much as the constitution guarantees the right to protest and petition in a peaceful manner, the same constitution also mandates the Government with a responsibility to protect the same citizens and property. In as much as no investor would come into a country where the Government shoots at innocent civilians, no investor would come into country where there is lawlessness, violence, looting, where ordinary citizens become thugs and militias that rob other citizens.

Anglistone T Sokhulu Sibanda writes in his own capacity.

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